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- Canada's Amazing Women Olympians
Clara Hughes
(Photo courtesy COC)
The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver closed on February 28th with Canadian women winning a multitude of medals. Canada won a total of 14 gold medals, setting a record for the country to win the most gold at a Winter Games. And many of those medals were won by Canadian women.
Canada's National Women's Team beat out the United States team to win the gold medal in hockey. The incredible Clara Hughes ended her impressive Olympic career by wining a bronze medal in speedskating. Having earned six Olympic medals, she now shares with Cyndi Klassen the distinction of being the most decorated Olympians in history. Wow!
Here's a list of all the wins by Canadian women in the 2010 Games:
HUMPHRIES Kaillie: Gold Bobsleigh Women's
MOYSE Heather: Gold Bobsleigh Women's
UPPERTON Helen: Silver Bobsleigh Women's
BROWN Shelley-Ann: Silver Bobsleigh Women's
BARTEL Cori Silver: Curling Women's Curling
DARBYSHIRE Carolyn: Silver Curling Women's Curling
O'CONNOR Susan: Silver Curling Women's Curling
BERNARD Cheryl: Silver Curling Women's Curling
MOORE Kristie: Silver Curling Women's Curling
HEIL Jenn: Silver Freestyle Skiing Ladies' Moguls
MCIVOR Ashleigh: Gold Freestyle Skiing Ladies' Ski Cross
ROCHETTE Joannie: Bronze Figure Skating Ladies'
VIRTUE Tessa: Gold Figure Skating Ice Dancing
AGOSTA Meghan: Gold Hockey Women
APPS Gillian: Gold Hockey Women
BONHOMME Tessa: Gold Hockey Women
BOTTERILL Jennifer: Gold Hockey Women
HEFFORD Jayna: Gold Hockey Women
IRWIN Haley: Gold Hockey Women
JOHNSTON Rebecca: Gold Hockey Women
DUKE Rebecca: Gold Hockey Women
KINGSBURY Gina: Gold Hockey Women
LABONTÉ Charline: Gold Hockey Women
MACLEOD Carla: Gold Hockey Women
MIKKELSON Meaghan: Gold Hockey Women
OUELLETTE Caroline: Gold Hockey Women
PIPER Cherie: Gold Hockey Women
SOSTORICS Colleen: Gold Hockey Women
ST-PIERRE Kim: Gold Hockey Women
SZABADOS Shannon: Gold Hockey Women
VAILLANCOURT Sarah Gold Hockey Women
WARD Catherine Gold Hockey Women
WICKENHEISER Hayley Gold Hockey Women
POULIN-NADEAU Marie-Philip: Gold Hockey Women
RICKER Maëlle: Gold Snowboard Ladies' Snowboard Cross
NESBITT Christine: Gold Speed Skating Ladies' 1000m
GROVES Kristina: Silver Speed Skating Ladies' 1500m
GROVES Kristina: Bronze Speed Skating Ladies' 3000m
HUGHES Clara: Bronze Speed Skating Ladies' 5000m
ST-GELAIS Marianne: Silver Short Track Ladies' 500m
VICENT Tania: Silver Short Track Ladies' 3000m Relay
ST-GELAIS Marianne: Silver Short Track Ladies' 3000m Relay
GREGG Jessica: Silver Short Track Ladies' 3000m Relay
ROBERGE Kalyna: Silver Short Track Ladies' 3000m Relay
- Mint Issues Klassen Quarter
Cindy Klassen with new coin
(Photo courtesy Royal Canadian Mint)
On January 5, 2010 the Royal Canadian Mint released about 22 million quarters featuring Olympian Cindy Klassen. The talented speedskater from Winnipeg won five medals at the Turin Games in 2006. Klassen became the most decorated Olympian in Canadian history.
The quarters honouring Klassen feature the athlete in front of a red Maple Leaf. The new quarters have been randomly bundled in regular rolls of quarters. They can also be obtained at branches of the Royal Bank and Petro-Canada stations. Ontario artist Jason Bouwman designed the coin.
Klassen will be competing in the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.
- No Women's Ski Jumping at Olympics
So you assumed there was gender equality in sports now? Think again. When the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on December 22, 2009 that they would not hear an appeal by Canadian women ski jumpers, the women lost their last chance to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) made the decision to exclude women's ski jumping from the 2010 Games, claiming it is not sufficiently developed as a sport and doesn't meet the necessary technical criteria. Female jumpers took legal action on the grounds that Vancouver organizers of the Games are contravening the Charter of Rights by permitting only men to compete in ski jumping in the upcoming Olympics. As lower courts have already decided that the charter does not apply to the IOC, the female ski jumpers now have no further options for legal recourse.
"It is a discriminatory affront to the human dignity of these plaintiffs and elite women ski jumpers across the world," stated Ross Clark, the attorney hired by the group of female ski jumpers who took legal action.
More:
Supreme Court spurns women ski jumpers, CBC News article
Female ski jumpers grounded as case dismissed by top court, Globe and Mail article
IOC's talk against discrimination is little more than hot air, Vancouver Sun article
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