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Still no Booze for you photo Gerry Kahrmann / Canwest News Service
Catch the Spirit.
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After four days back on schedule, the Vancouver Police Department once again ordered downtown liquor stores to close early at 7 p.m. Police say the early closures are meant to cut down on drinking in public and large-scale drunkenness on the streets as crowds pour into the city to celebrate the final weekend of the Olympics. The early closures were put in place last weekend after a wild night on Feb. 19.
American skater Apolo Anton Ohno (left), Canadian skaters Francois-Louis Tremblay and Charles Hamelin and Korean skater Si-Bak Sung compete in the final of the men’s 500-metre short track speed skating, held at the Pacific Coliseum Friday.
3 medals in short track drama Benjamin Alldritt
balldritt@nsnews.com Canada’s male short-track speed skaters ended their Vancouver medal drought in spectacular fashion Friday, winning gold and bronze in the 500 metres and gold again in the men’s 5,000-metre relay. Charles Hamelin and Francois-Louis Tremblay both qualified for the 500-metre final alongside South Korea’s Si-Bak Sung and star speedster Apolo Anton Onho, who was looking to build on his United States record of eight career Winter Games medals. The race ended with drama, as Tremblay lost his footing in the final turn, apparently pulling down Sung as he fell. Hamelin was touched in the melee and staggered over the finish line off balance but in first place with Ohno cruising to second. But following the review, the judges ruled that Ohno had pushed Tremblay in the turn, causing his fall. With the American disqualified, Sung was given silver and Tremblay bronze.
Hamelin’s girlfriend Marianne St. Gelais, a silver medallist in her 500-metre event, vaulted the barricade and embraced him. Strong podium hopes in several short track events, the Canadian men had been shut out of the medals in previous outings.
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U.S. Hockey rematch set Benjamin Alldritt
balldritt@nsnews.com Canada will play for the Olympic gold medal in men’s hockey Sunday after surviving a late Slovakian rally at Canada Hockey Place in the semifinals
Friday to win 3-2. The Canadian team wasn’t the King Kong side that obliterated the Russians earlier in the week, but they still opened the scoring late in the
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The Secret Voiceover West Vancouver standup comedian Chris Molineux knew he was in the studio recording for the Olympics, but he had no idea that he was adding his voice to the opening montage in the Opening Ceremony. See story page 3.
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