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for gold in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. Those momentous
victories so united us in pride and passion that they were voted
numbers one and two on CTV’s special broadcast, Top 10 Canadian
Olympic Winter Moments. The program counted down the top
moments, as voted on by fans across the country.
To gain that spot as the No. 1 moment of all time, with millions
of fans on the edge of their seats, Team Canada defeated the
United States 5-2 to capture Canada’s first men’s Olympic hockey
gold medal since the Edmonton Mercurys were crowned Olympic
champions 50 years earlier in 1952. When Canadian hockey stars
live out their Olympic dream by stepping onto the ice on February
16, they will begin a quest to bring the men’s hockey gold medal
back to Canada.
At the same time, the Canadian women’s hockey team will be
fighting to keep it here. Women’s hockey debuted at the Olympic
Winter Games in 1998, when the Canadians took home the
silver medal after falling to the Americans. Canada has not lost

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an Olympic game since, claiming gold in 2002 and 2006. The
women’s hockey gold at the 2002 Winter Games, where they
defeated the USA 3-2, was voted the No. 2 moment.
There are a number of Top 10 Canadian Olympic Winter
Moments athletes who will compete once more in Vancouver.
Cindy Klassen, with her five medals in speed skating at the 2006
Turin Olympics, has every intention of competing again in 2010.
At the 2006 Olympics, Klassen became the first Canadian to
win five medals at a single Winter Olympics. Adding those to her
Olympic bronze in 2002, Klassen became the most decorated

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