The Vancouver Olympics closed Sunday with a star-studded celebration of Canada in front of an estimated global television audience of billions on a historic day for the host nation. Just hours after Canada's dramatic ice hockey triumph over the United States sparked raucous scenes, the Olympic cauldron was extinguished in the city's 60,000-seat BC Place stadium. Legendary ...

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The Vancouver Winter Olympics ended in spectacular triumph on Sunday with a dazzling closing ceremony that mixed traditional pomp with self-deprecating humor to put the icing on 17 days of unrelenting drama and action. The President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge declared the Games "excellent and very friendly" in a closing speech that paid tribute to ...

Sid the Kid has a new label: Olympic hero. Already considered Canada's greatest player since Wayne Gretzky, Sidney Crosby did something the Great One never did, scoring the winning goal in overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States in perhaps the most important ...