With a little over five hundred days left until the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, we’re getting more of glimpse into what the Brits have in store. Their new Olympic park is slowly taking shape, including a velodrome, aquatics center and open air stadium, and the committee has recently appointed artists Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby to design the new Olympic torch.... 

Barrack Obama, who seems to be the largest sports enthusiast in American Presidential history, made good on a bet he made with Prime Minister Harper of Canada. On Friday morning, David Johnson, who is the US ambassador to Canada, delivered a case of Molson beer to the Prime Minister. The delivery stems from a bet that Obama made with Harper over which country’s hockey team would win the gold medal... 

Victory Sweet for Canada It was the culmination of the greatly anticipated match up for gold between the U.S. and Canada. Canada brought glory to Vancouver in the final game of the men’s Olympic ice hockey tournament. It was an intense game with Canada winning 3-2 in overtime. Jonathan Toews scored for Canada in the first period. It was the only goal until Corey Perry scored to make it 2-0 for... 

The Canadian women’s hockey team caused a bit of a stir with their gold medal celebration on Thursday. Half an hour after the medal ceremony, when fans had left the building, the women were asked to return to the ice to be photographed. They certainly obliged. Players – still in uniform and with medals around their necks – celebrated joyfully, complete with beer, Champagne, and cigars. The... 

Another gold medal was added to Canada’s medal count last night as Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir win the ice dance competition at the Vancouver Winter Games. This is the country’s first gold medal in the event. Virtue and Moir skated to “Symphony No. 5” by Gustav Mahler, and finished with a combined score of 221.57 with a score of 11.42 in the free-dance portion of the event. These two skaters... 

Thirty years ago, the United States hockey team faced, and defeated, a Soviet Union team that was called unbeatable. This year, the United States is celebrating a miniature version of 1980’s miracle on ice after defeating the Canadian hockey team in the 2010 winter Olympic games. The host of this year’s Olympics is Vancouver, so that makes the defeat doubly hard for the Canadians to handle, though... 

While the Canadian national hockey team is a favorite to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games, they had just about all they could handle on Thursday from a surprising opponent. The Canadians barely outlasted the Switzerland Olympic hockey team and won 3 goals to 2 in a shootout. This came as a complete surprise as many hockey experts expected the Canadians to win this game with ease. Clearly... 

Simon Ammann of Switzerland has won the first gold medal of the 2010 Olympics for men’s ski jumping. Ammann took a massive 108 metre leap on the ski jump, setting a hill record as he secured the gold. This is Ammann’s third gold medal, adding to the two golds he won in Salt Lake City eight years ago. Silver went to Adam Malysz of Poland, and bronze went to Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria – his... 

History will be made on February 12, when the Winter Olympics come to Vancouver, British Columbia. The 2010 games marks the third time Canada has hosted the games. Prior games, in 1976 and 1988, did not produce Olympic gold for the Canadian team. This time, the team plans to win the gold and “own the podium,” to quote the president elect of the Canadian Olympic Committee, Marcel Aubut.... 

Blame the wipe out on a whiteout: US ski sensation Stacey Cook could see her medal dreams disappear after slamming into side netting at full speed during a Whistler training run Thursday. Though the 25-year-old skier rose from the accident on her own volition, she was later airlifted by helicopter to a nearby hospital. Nothing serious, Jim Moller, head physician with the US Olympic team, told reporters,...