Gold Medals: Hockey Gold

Luge Track Dept: This change, of course, arrived courtesy of the 2010 Winter Olympics, and exists today well beyond the economic and political quibbling that pervades the public discourse over the Vancouver/Whistler Games, the still-smouldering controversies over the athletes' village, sky-high budgets and the toofast luge track, according to Vancouver Sun. Nor was it about the pride, for there was that, too, found in Canada's record 14 gold medals, including roof-rattling hockey gold for men and women, along with the spectacular opening and closing ceremonies watched by millions around the world, so memorable that k.d. lang's powerful rendition of Hallelujah still hangs in the crisp air over the city and a year ago today, British Columbia and the people who call it home changed forever. It may not have been the kind of change that came to our province with the arrival of the railroad, or the discovery of gold, or the cultural revolution that is tied to immigration, but instead a more subtle type of change, an intangible one really, so very different from the common touchstones that have long defined our brief history. The change that came to B.C. wasn't just about emotion, though there was much of that, from the Olympic torch relay to the inspiring athletic performances and the thousands of red-toqued, scarlet-mittened revellers who jammed the streets of Vancouver and Whistler for 17 days and nights. As reported in the news.
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