O Canada!

It was La Morte Subite/Sudden Death for Canada and the United States in the last medal event of the XXI Winter Olympic Games. The sport of ice hockey means everything to the Canadians and in this very successful Olympics for them, they were not denied. It took three regulation periods and almost eight minutes into overtime for Canada to emerge as the Gold medal winner of Men's Ice Hockey by a score of three to two. A triumphant end for the host of these winter games.

An interesting Note: There was symmetry in the medalists for both Women's and Men's Ice Hockey - the Gold medal winner was Canada, the Silver medal winner was the United States, and the Bronze medal winner was Finland.

From beginning this Olympics without having won a gold medal in the two previous Olympics they hosted, Canada ends up winning the most gold medals, fourteen, in this one, the majority part of their twenty-six medal total. What a change of fortune! The United States ends up with the most total medals, thirty-seven. Out of the eighty-two participating countries, twenty-four end up being Olympic winners. It was a good Olympics Canada.

Canada Flag from the website en.wikipedia.org