Vancouver Winter Olympics medals tally

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games were contested in surreal weather, the warmest winter in over a century forcing organizers to truck in snow and making shorts and T-shirts a common downtown sight. They were the first Games in which scalpers sold curling tickets, and the first in which Lindsey Vonn became the most photographed female in sports, even before she won a gold and bronze on the slopes of Whistler, when the fog allowed people to ski. Vonn's medals helped the U.S. pile up a record total of 37 medals in the final tally at Vancouver - a total that was also padded by the ever-circling Apolo Anton Ohno, who scooped up three more medals to run his lifetime total to eight - more than any US Winter Olympian.



Said Vonn, "It was so cool to watch the American flag go up so many times." Thirty-two-year-old Bode Miller of Franconia, N.H., rebounded from his Italian washout with three Alpine medals, one of each flavor, and cemented his iconic status in U.S. ski annals. A 19-year-old Kim Yu-Na of Bucheon, South Korea, achieved a rarefied status of her own, setting a new world standard for figure-skating artistry in winning her gold. The big moment for host nation Canada was in ice hockey; when the national wonderboy, Sidney Crosby, scored the winning goal to beat the US.

The Canadians would go on to haul in a record 14 golds in the medals tally, backing up all their talk about the $110 million Own the Podium program. Russia suffered its worst ever Olympic performance, coming 11th in the medal table with just three gold medals. President Medvedev demanded the resignations of trainers and coaches; the next Winter Olympics are due to be held in the Russian city of Sochi.
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