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...Last Thursday night, after watching her daughter receive a gold medal at Torino's magnificent Piazza Castello, Helga Klassen remembered that fateful day more than two years earlier. "When we got the call that night, we didn't know how serious her injury was," the athlete's mother says. Or how magnificently she would recover...
...Logic says Canada should do well at events on ice or snow. Since the Calgary Games of 1988, Canada's medal tally has grown steadily, as has its team. (Canada sent a record 196 athletes to Torino, 39 more than went to Salt Lake City in 2002.) The number of medals up for grabs has also swelled: Calgary played host to 46 events; Torino had 84. Of the six new events in 2006, Canada medaled in three: Maelle Ricker's bronze in snowboard cross and silvers in men's and women's speedskating team pursuit...
...Fully half of the events in Torino were added after 1984, and Canada excelled early, especially in those begun in the 1990s: freestyle skiing (1992), short-track speedskating (1992), women's biathlon (1994) and snowboarding, curling and women's hockey (1998). At Torino, Canada notched a pair of curling medals, making the nation six-for-six dating...
...Home cooking. That could be the recipe for Canada's Alpine skiers, who haven't medaled since 1994 but who came agonizingly close in Torino. Olympic rookies Erik Guay, Kelly VanderBeek and Francois Bourque settled for fourth; Genevieve Simard was fifth. Guay, 24, skied on a gimpy knee and missed bronze by 0.1 sec. in the super-G. "Fourth place is the worst," he said. "I'll be thinking about that one-tenth of a second for the next four years." So will VanderBeek, 23, who missed the Ladies' super-G podium...
...Read brought a tangible reminder home to Calgary from Torino: a rock from the finish areas of each of the four ski venues. "I stole them from the Italian Alps because we're turning over every rock trying to find the key to victory. You have to be relentlessly committed to excellence. In 2002 our best result was seventh. We've made a lot of progress. Now for the next four years, we've got to redouble that effort...