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Defending Olympic silver medalist Evgeni Plushenko won’t have a chance to upgrade to gold on home ice in Sochi following a ruling today by the International Skating Union.

Was there an image more iconically Canadian out of the 2010 Olympics than toque-wearing, red-beard-sporting skeleton gold medallist Jon Montgomery chugging from a pitcher of a beer during a triumphant stroll through Whistler’s pedestrian-only town plaza?

Corey Perry didn’t even wait for the big Olympic hockey question to finish.

Coffee, bacon and a big slice of Olympic fear-mongering was served Wednesday morning at the Molson Canadian World Hockey Summit in Toronto.

The overwhelming success of three-on-three basketball at the inaugural Youth Games is a strong enough argument for both versions of the discipline to be included at future Olympics, according to the sport’s organisers.

Dr. Gaétan Tardif has been named chef de mission for Canada at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

The guts of the 2012 Olympics will take place at the sprawling Olympic park currently rising of the squalor that once was one of the most run-down areas of East London.

The six-month anniversary of the opening of the 21st Winter Olympics came and went Thursday.

Aerialist Kyle Nissen, a two-time Olympian, is retiring from skiing.

The contrast is stark. Compared with the grandeur and beauty of historic Central London, the east side is dirty, dilapidated. In the United States, they’d call them slums. But farther east, on a small parcel of land that two years from now will play host to the world’s best athletes during the 2012 Olympics Games, [...]

Olympic swimmer Mark Tewksbury has been appointed as Canada’s Chef de Mission for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

The 2012 Olympic Games are on budget and ahead of schedule — and organizers are even optimistic that transportation will run smoothly, a huge challenge in this historic city of small roadways and millions of commuters. The one unknown? Security.

When the Winter Olympics ended five months ago, they left Canadians with memories, taxpayers with bills to pay and souvenir companies with huge inventories.

The road to the 2012 London Summer Olympics just got a lot more exciting, humorous and high-energy with Mark Tewksbury named as chef de mission for the Canadian Olympic Team.

A familiar name will head Canada’s London-bound summer Olympians in less than two years. Retired swimmer Mark Tewksbury has been appointed as the Chef de Mission for the 2012 Olympic Games.

United States Olympic bobsledder Bill Allen Schuffenhauer will be tried Aug. 17 in North Vancouver Provincial court, QMI has learned.

VICTORIA – Premier Gordon Campbell made the following statement in recognition of B.C. Day, Monday, August 2.

Former British Olympian James Cracknell has suffered brain damage after fracturing his skull in a cycling accident last week, according to his wife.

VICTORIA – The Province is providing $3 million this year to support arts and cultural festivals in more than 150 communities across British Columbia, announced Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts Kevin Krueger.

After the stress of seven years of intense planning, a financial meltdown, problematic weather, a gruelling cross-country torch relay, an athlete’s death on opening day and the euphoria of a final-day gold-medal hockey win, the staff and volunteers of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics were emotionally drained. And then they had to rally around and do [...]

It would be easy to play along, to say that Own the Podium is a concept that can easily be carried over from the success of a wild winter in Vancouver to a successful summer in London.

A lot of people around the world watched the 2010 Winter Olympics, but not as many as the official Games-time estimate.

The top official of the Canadian Forces’ Operation Podium said he can "count on one hand" the number of military personnel fired from Olympic duty for misconduct.

BURNS LAKE – Forests and Range Minister Pat Bell and Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad presented a gift of appreciation to the Cheslatta Carrier Nation for donating wood that was harvested underwater, and used to build a podium for the 2010 Paralympic Games.

HOUSTON – Forests and Range Minister Pat Bell and Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad presented a gift of appreciation to the Dungate Community Forest for donating the wood used to build the podium on which Canada’s Jon Montgomery celebrated his gold-medal win.

It would be easy to play along, to say that Own the Podium is a concept that can easily be carried over from the success of a wild winter in Vancouver to a successful summer in London.

Organizers of Vancouver’s Winter Olympics sold 110,000 fewer tickets than they originally forecast.

A group of U.S. relay team members who were stripped of their 2000 Olympic medals by the IOC because of Marion Jones’s doping can retain them, The Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Friday.

The chief financial officer of the Vancouver Olympics claims it would have made no difference if the organization’s May 2007 business plan had anticipated a recession.

VANOC’s chief financial officer made no apology for the the May 2007 Olympic business plan, which errantly predicted "no recession through Games time."

Governments in the host city and host province have reported their spending on the 2010 Winter Olympics, but what about the feds?

The British Columbia government spent $325 million more on the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics than originally promised.

The bad news: British Columbia is still deep in the red.

The British Columbia government spent $44.4 million of taxpayers’ funds on advertising in 2009-2010, including $36.7 million on the "You Gotta Be Here" Olympic tourism campaign.

The federal government spent $25,200 to hire a photographer to shoot cabinet ministers during the Olympics and Paralympics.

With two years to go until showtime, Jacques Rogge looked a happy man on Monday as he gazed across London’s sweeping 2012 Olympic Stadium.