Current events about Olympic games!

The last Olympic Games in Vancouver are famous for their results!During two weeks athletes from  Canada  had achieved great success!

Olympic Games is a long-expected event,that held every two years, with Summer and Winter Olympic Games alternating, although they occur every four years within their respective seasonal games.It consists of countless variety of sport competitions, in which thousands of athletes participate.

Team U.S.A. kicked a ton of butt. The U.S. topped the medals table, winning 37 in all, the most by any single country in Winter Olympics history. The heavily hyped faces, like snowboarder Shaun White, downhill skier Lindsey Vonn, long-track speed skater Shani Davis, men's figure skater Evan Lysacek, all delivered golds. Apolo Ohno now has eight medals, more than any other U.S. Winter Olympian. Bode Miller, the Torino pariah who came out of retirement to give the Olympics one more go, showed that when expectations are lifted, and extracurricular drinking stilted, a supremely gifted skier can pick up a gold, silver and bronze.

As for Russia,her glory days were over.After the much-vaunted Russian hockey team was embarrassed by a 7-3 loss to Canada in the quarterfinals of the Vancouver Olympics, head coach Vyacheslav Bykov predicted the reaction the team would receive back home. "Let's put guillotines and scaffolds up on Red Square. We have 35 people in the squad — let's finish them all off," he told reporters. Unlike his team's shooting on Wednesday night, he was spot-on. "If you were asleep, you were lucky," cried the headline of the Sport Express daily on Friday. The state news agency RIA Novosti put it more succinctly: "Nightmare in Vancouver."The defeat was widely seen as the final humiliation for a Russian Olympic team that has struggled to live up to expectations, finishing in sixth place on the medals table, with only three golds — half the number won by South Korea. Not only did the Russians not medal in hockey, but for the first time since 1964, the Russian national anthem (which is the same as the Soviet one) was not heard at the figure-skating rink — a travesty for a nation with a glorious figure-skating history. It's been a startling decline from the days of Soviet domination: from 1956 to 1991, when the Soviet Union dissolved, the country topped the medals table at all but two Winter Olympics. Its best showing was in 1988, when it won 29 medals, including 11 gold.

The Vancouver Olympics may have opened with an uneasy, sombre tone, but they closed in a spirit of celebration — with a tongue-in-cheek nod to everything Canadians are deeply proud to be.With cheers still ringing from Vancouver to St. John's after Canada's dramatic gold-medal win Sunday afternoon over the U.S. in men's hockey, the evening's Winter Games closing ceremony kicked off in hilarious fashion.It was a fitting nod to the mishaps, misfortune and insecurities that vibrated through a country that found itself, for better or worse, under the world's microscope for 17 long days, as over 2,500 athletes from 82 countries took part in the Games.

After the playing of O Canada, the athletes marched into BC Place, waving their flags and cheering with pride.