Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics

In May 2009, a motion for the Canadian Olympic team to wear seal skin on their uniforms was unopposed in Canadian parliament.^[7] The motion read: "That, in the opinion of the House, the government should take advantage of the opportunity provided by the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games to promote seal products, particularly by studying the possibility of using these products in the making of the Canadian Olympic clothing."^[8] The motion was proposed by Raynald Blais of the Bloc Québécois in protest of the European Parliament's passing of a bill to ban the import of seal products.^[7] Canadian Olympic Committee chief executive officer Chris Rudge quickly dismissed the idea, saying "It would be inappropriate for us and I think it would be inappropriate to use the athletes as a voice for issues that accrue to other elements to our society."^[9]

Own the Podium program

After Canadian athletes failed to obtain a gold medal in either the 1976 or 1988 Olympics, of which Canada were hosts, the Canadian Olympic Committee pledged to make Canada the top medal winning nation at 2010. They started the Own the Podium program and the Canadian government invested $120 million into the program.^[10]

Hockey uniform controversy

Since 1994, Canadian national hockey team players have worn uniforms that feature the logo of Hockey Canada, the governing body of the sport in Canada.^[11] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not allow the use of national federation logos, but did not strictly enforce the rule until the 2008 Summer Olympics. Canadian hockey teams used the Hockey Canada logo at the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics, because the IOC does allow an exemption if the nation's National Olympic Committee approves.^[12] The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) chose not to support an exemption. Chris Rudge, the COCs chief executive officer, said "[Hockey Canada] is discontent is that we're not going the extra mile to go for an exemption for [them] ... but it's not our fight, it's the IOC's rule, and Hockey Canada knew this was coming. [...] We got directives on the summer uniforms two years ago, and we shared it then with the winter sports. We told them we didn't have the directives for winter sports at that time, but they had to know it was coming. … We let them know it would be a harder issue than before."^[13] Hockey Canada executives, concerned that they would lose money through apparel sales, unsuccessfully protested the decision.^[14] Bob Nicholson, president of Hockey Canada, said "The COC is supposed to lead Canada into the Olympics and hopefully this isn't the way the COC is going to lead us over the next 13 months. [...] I just wish they would support us at the IOC level and they did not do that and I don't like that type of teammate."^[15] A new design was unveiled on 17 August 2009. According to Nicholson, the new jerseys will only be used in the 2010 tournament, and players will use the old version at other international tournaments.^[16]

The Canadian alpine skiing team is guaranteed 14 athletes, which is down from the original 22 (the maximum number a NOC may enter).^[17] The International Ski Federation (FIS) announced that the number of overall alpine skiers would be limited to 320, and that some of the guaranteed spots would go to smaller nations, so that there will be a more international field. Canada was originally guaranteed 14 skiers, although the number was later raised to 18, and can still enter a full team of 22 if other athletes meet the qualification standards. Gary Allan, president of Alpine Canada, felt that Canada should be allowed 22, arguing that television coverage and crowd reception will be better.^[18] Canada was allowed a team of 19 skiers, which was announced on 27 January 2010.^[19] That number was later increased to 22 when other nations were unable to fill their quotas.^[20]

Prior to the announcement of the team, several athletes thought to be medal contenders were injured severely enough to keep them out of the Olympics, including 2009 world downhill champion John Kucera, Kelly VanderBeek, François Bourque and Jean-Philippe Roy.^[21]

Men

Women

Canada sent eight biathletes to Vancouver. Canada had four individual entries in women's events but only one individual entry in men's events. However, as the host nation Canada was allowed to send a men's relay team. The men's team comprised Jean Philippe Leguellec, Marc-André Bédard, Brendan Green and Robin Clegg. The women's team, meanwhile, comprised Zina Kocher, Megan Imrie, Megan Tandy and Rosanna Crawford.^[22]

As the host nation, Canada was guaranteed an entry in all three events (two-man, two-woman and four-man).^[23] Canada's full 12 athlete team was announced on 27 January 2010.^[24]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Pierre Lueders Jesse Lumsden	Two-man	51.94	7	52.12	5	51.87	4	51.94	5	3:27.87	5
Lyndon Rush Lascelles Brown	Two-man	51.67	3	54.70	23	51.93	6	52.16	8	3:30.46	15
Kaillie Humphries Heather Moyse	Two-woman	53.19	1	53.01	1	52.85	1	53.23	2	3:32.28
Helen Upperton Shelley-Ann Brown	Two-woman	53.50	5	53.12	3	53.34	3	53.17	1	3:33.13
Lyndon Rush Lascelles Brown Chris Le Bihan David Bissett	Four-man	51.12	2	51.03	2	51.24	2	51.46	2	3:24.85
Pierre Lueders Justin Kripps Jesse Lumsden Neville Wright	Four-man	51.27	6	51.29	6	51.50	5	51.54	4	3:25.60	5

The 11 athlete team was announced on 22 January 2010. The team consisted of Ivan Babikov, George Grey, Alex Harvey, Devon Kershaw, Stefan Kuhn, Brian McKeever, 2006 gold medalist Chandra Crawford, Daria Gaiazova, Perianne Jones, 2006 silver medalist Sara Renner and Madeleine Williams.^[25] Brian McKeever, who is legally blind, competed at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Paralympics in both cross-country skiing and biathlon. He won four gold medals (two at each Games) in cross-country skiing as well as a silver and a bronze in biathlon. He would have been the first athlete in Olympic history ever to compete in the Winter Olympics after participating in the Paralympics.^[25] Four more cross-country skiers were announced on 27 January 2010: Drew Goldsack, Brent McMurtry, Gordon Jewett and Brittany Webster.^[26]

Men^[27]

Women^[27]

Canada qualified both a men's and women's team. The representatives were decided at the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials, held 6–13 December 2009, in Edmonton.^[28] Brad Gushue and his team, the gold medalists in the men's tournament in 2006, were unable to qualify for the trials, and did not get the chance to defend their gold medal.^[29] In the men's tournament, Canada was represented by the team of Kevin Martin, John Morris, Marc Kennedy and Ben Hebert. This was the second Olympic tournament for Martin, who won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics.^[30] In the women's tournament, the team of Cheryl Bernard, Susan O'Connor, Carolyn Darbyshire and Cori Bartel participated.^[31]

Summary

Team	Event	Group Stage										Tiebreaker	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ben Hebert Marc Kennedy Kevin Martin John Morris Adam Enright	Men's tournament	NOR W 7–6	GER W 9–4	SWE W 7–3	FRA W 12–5	DEN W 10–3	GBR W 7–6	SUI W 6–4	USA W 7–2	CHN W 10–3	1 Q	BYE	SWE W 6–3	NOR W 6–3
Cori Bartel Cheryl Bernard Carolyn Darbyshire Susan O'Connor Kristie Moore	Women's tournament	SUI W 5–4	JPN W 7–6	GER W 6–5	DEN W 5–4	USA W 9–2	CHN L 5–6	SWE W 6–2	GBR W 6–5	RUS W 7–3	1 Q	—	SUI W 6–5	SWE L 6–7

Men's tournament

Standings

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
Canada	Kevin Martin	9	9	0	75	36	36	28	14	2	85%	Playoffs
Norway	Thomas Ulsrud	9	7	2	64	43	40	32	15	7	84%
Switzerland	Ralph Stöckli	9	6	3	53	44	35	33	20	8	81%
Sweden	Niklas Edin	9	5	4	50	52	34	36	20	6	82%	Tiebreaker
Great Britain	David Murdoch	9	5	4	57	44	35	29	20	9	81%
Germany	Andy Kapp	9	4	5	48	60	35	38	11	9	75%
France	Thomas Dufour	9	3	6	37	63	22	34	16	7	73%
China	Wang Fengchun	9	2	7	52	60	37	37	9	7	77%
Denmark	Ulrik Schmidt	9	2	7	45	63	31	29	12	6	78%
United States	John Shuster	9	2	7	43	59	32	41	18	9	76%

Round-robin

Canada had a bye in draws 3, 7 and 11.

Draw 1

Tuesday, 16 February, 09:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	6
Canada (Martin)	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	7

Draw 2

Tuesday, 16 February, 19:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Martin)	2	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	2	x	9
Germany (Kapp)	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	x	4

Draw 4

Thursday, 18 February, 09:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Martin)	2	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	1	x	7
Sweden (Edin)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	x	3

Draw 5

Thursday, 18 February, 19:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
France (Dufour)	0	0	2	0	1	1	1	0	x	x	5
Canada (Martin)	1	3	0	5	0	0	0	3	x	x	12

Draw 6

Friday, 19 February, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Denmark (Schmidt)	1	0	1	0	1	0	x	x	x	x	3
Canada (Martin)	0	2	0	5	0	3	x	x	x	x	10

Draw 8

Saturday, 20 February, 19:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Martin)	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	2	7
Great Britain (Murdoch)	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	6

Draw 9

Sunday, 21 February, 14:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Switzerland (Stöckli)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	4
Canada (Martin)	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	6

Draw 10

Monday, 22 February, 09:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Martin)	0	1	0	2	0	1	1	0	2	x	7
United States (Shuster)	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	x	2

Draw 12

Tuesday, 23 February, 14:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Li)	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	x	x	x	3
Canada (Martin)	4	0	1	0	1	0	4	x	x	x	10

Semifinal

Thursday, 25 February, 14:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Sweden (Edin)	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	x	3
Canada (Martin)	0	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	x	6

Gold medal game

Saturday, 27 February, 15:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Martin)	0	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	x	6
Norway (Ulsrud)	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	x	3

Women's tournament

Standings

Final round robin standings

Team v t e	Skip	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	EW	EL	BE	SE	S%	Qualification
Canada	Cheryl Bernard	9	8	1	56	37	40	29	20	13	81%	Playoffs
Sweden	Anette Norberg	9	7	2	56	52	36	36	13	5	79%
China	Wang Bingyu	9	6	3	61	47	39	37	12	7	74%
Switzerland	Mirjam Ott	9	6	3	67	48	40	36	7	12	76%
Denmark	Angelina Jensen	9	4	5	49	61	31	40	15	5	74%
Germany	Andrea Schöpp	9	3	6	52	56	35	40	15	4	75%
Great Britain	Eve Muirhead	9	3	6	54	59	36	41	11	10	75%
Japan	Moe Meguro	9	3	6	64	70	36	37	13	5	73%
Russia	Liudmila Privivkova	9	3	6	53	60	36	40	14	13	77%
United States	Debbie McCormick	9	2	7	43	65	36	36	12	12	77%

Round-robin

Canada had a bye in draws 3, 5 and 7.

Draw 1

Tuesday, 16 February, 14:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Bernard)	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	5
Switzerland (Ott)	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	4

Draw 2

Wednesday, 17 February, 09:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Meguro)	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	6
Canada (Bernard)	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	7

Draw 4

Thursday, 18 February, 14:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Canada (Bernard)	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	6
Germany (Schöpp)	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	0	5

Draw 6

Friday, 19 February, 19:00

Sheet A	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Denmark (Jensen)	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	4
Canada (Bernard)	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	5

Draw 8

Sunday, 21 February, 09:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Bernard)	0	0	4	0	2	0	3	x	x	x	9
United States (McCormick)	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	x	x	x	2

Draw 9

Sunday, 21 February, 19:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
China (Wang)	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	6
Canada (Bernard)	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	5

Draw 10

Monday, 22 February, 14:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Sweden (Norberg)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	x	2
Canada (Bernard)	0	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	x	6

Draw 11

Tuesday, 23 February, 09:00

Sheet D	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Canada (Bernard)	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	6
Great Britain (Muirhead)	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	5

Draw 12

Tuesday, 23 February, 19:00

Sheet B	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Bernard)	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	1	1	x	7
Russia (Sidorova)	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	x	3

Semifinal

Thursday, 25 February, 09:00

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Canada (Bernard)	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	6
Switzerland (Ott)	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	5

Gold medal game

Friday, 26 February, 15:00

Sheet C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Canada (Bernard)	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	1	0	0	6
Sweden (Norberg)	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	1	7

The full 18 athlete freestyle skiing team was announced on 24 January 2010.^[32] Dave Duncan was originally named to the men's ski cross team, but he broke his collarbone during a training run at the Olympics and was unable to compete. Brady Leman was named his replacement.^[33] However, Leman aggravated a broken tibia he suffered in 2009, and also did not compete. Replacing both of them was Davey Barr.^[34]

Moguls and aerials

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Kyle Nissen	Men's aerials	233.71	9 Q	239.31	5
Steve Omischl	Men's aerials	233.88	8 Q	233.66	8
Warren Shouldice	Men's aerials	235.93	6 Q	223.30	10
Alexandre Bilodeau	Men's moguls	25.48	2 Q	26.75
Vincent Marquis	Men's moguls	23.71	13 Q	25.88	4
Pierre-Alexandre Rousseau	Men's moguls	24.36	7 Q	25.83	5
Maxime Gingras	Men's moguls	24.37	6 Q	24.13	10
Veronika Bauer	Women's aerials	160.46	15	DNQ	15
Jennifer Heil	Women's moguls	25.50	2 Q	25.69
Kristi Richards	Women's moguls	24.63	4 Q	4.36	20
Chloé Dufour-Lapointe	Women's moguls	23.74	9 Q	23.87	5

Ski cross

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		1/8 finals	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Time	Rank	Position	Position	Position	Position	Rank
Davey Barr	Men's ski cross	1:14.98	25 Q	2 Q	2 Q	3	Small Final 2	6
Christopher Del Bosco	Men's ski cross	1:12.89	2 Q	1 Q	1 Q	2 Q	4	4
Stanley Hayer	Men's ski cross	1:13.74	10 Q	2 Q	4	DNQ		10
Ashleigh McIvor	Women's ski cross	1:17.17	2 Q	1 Q	1 Q	2 Q	1
Julia Murray	Women's ski cross	1:19.54	14 Q	2 Q	4	DNQ		12
Danielle Poleschuk	Women's ski cross	1:19.02	10 Q	3	DNQ			19
Kelsey Serwa	Women's ski cross	1:17.94	4 Q	1 Q	1 Q	3	Small Final 1	5

Canada qualified two athletes or pairs in each of the four events for a total of 12 athletes.^[35][36] Participants were decided at the 2010 Canadian Figure Skating Championships.

Athlete(s)	Event	CD		SP/OD		FS/FD		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Patrick Chan[37]	Men's			81.12	7	160.30	4	241.42	5
Vaughn Chipeur[37]	Men's			57.22	24	113.70	21	170.92	23
Joannie Rochette[38]	Ladies'			71.36	3	131.28	3	202.64
Cynthia Phaneuf[38]	Ladies'			57.16	14	99.46	13	156.62	12
Jessica Dubé & Bryce Davison[39]	Pairs			65.36	6	121.75	6	187.11	6
Anabelle Langlois & Cody Hay[39]	Pairs			64.20	7	115.77	9	179.97	9
Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir[37]	Ice dancing	42.74	2	68.41	1	110.42	1	221.57
Vanessa Crone & Paul Poirier[37]	Ice dancing	31.14	15	48.17	17	85.29	12	164.60	14

National teams are co-ordinated by Hockey Canada and players are chosen by the team's management staff.^[40] The men's and women's national teams both qualified for the 2010 Winter Olympics.^[41]

With Vancouver being home to the Canucks, the 2010 Winter Olympics were the first to take place in an NHL market since the league started allowing its players to compete in the games in 1998 in Nagano, Japan.

Men's tournament

A group of about 45 players were invited to an orientation camp in August 2009 (although players not invited could also have been named to the team) and the final 23 man roster was announced on 30 December 2009.^[42][43] The team was coached by Mike Babcock and included assistant coaches Ken Hitchcock, Lindy Ruff and Jacques Lemaire.^[44]

Roster

The following is the Canadian roster in the men's ice hockey tournament of the 2010 Winter Olympics.^[45]

No.	Pos.	Name	Height	Weight	Birthdate	Birthplace	2009–10 team
30	G	Martin Brodeur	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)	98 kg (216 lb)	6 May 1972	Montreal, QC	New Jersey Devils (NHL)
29	G	Marc-André Fleury	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)	82 kg (181 lb)	28 November 1984	Sorel-Tracy, QC	Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL)
1	G	Roberto Luongo	191 cm (6 ft 3 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	4 April 1979	Montreal, QC	Vancouver Canucks (NHL)
22	D	Dan Boyle	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	12 July 1976	Ottawa, ON	San Jose Sharks (NHL)
8	D	Drew Doughty	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	92 kg (203 lb)	8 December 1989	London, ON	Los Angeles Kings (NHL)
2	D	Duncan Keith	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	16 July 1983	Winnipeg, MB	Chicago Blackhawks (NHL)
27	D	Scott Niedermayer – C	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	31 August 1973	Cranbrook, BC	Anaheim Ducks (NHL)
20	D	Chris Pronger – A	198 cm (6 ft 6 in)	101 kg (223 lb)	10 October 1974	Dryden, ON	Philadelphia Flyers (NHL)
7	D	Brent Seabrook	191 cm (6 ft 3 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	20 April 1985	Richmond, BC	Chicago Blackhawks (NHL)
6	D	Shea Weber	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)	103 kg (227 lb)	14 August 1985	Sicamous, BC	Nashville Predators (NHL)
37	F	Patrice Bergeron	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	24 July 1985	L'Ancienne-Lorette, QC	Boston Bruins (NHL)
87	F	Sidney Crosby – A	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	7 August 1987	Cole Harbour, NS	Pittsburgh Penguins (NHL)
51	F	Ryan Getzlaf	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	10 May 1985	Regina, SK	Anaheim Ducks (NHL)
15	F	Dany Heatley	191 cm (6 ft 3 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	21 January 1981	Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany	San Jose Sharks (NHL)
12	F	Jarome Iginla – A	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	1 July 1977	Edmonton, AB	Calgary Flames (NHL)
11	F	Patrick Marleau	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	15 September 1979	Swift Current, SK	San Jose Sharks (NHL)
10	F	Brenden Morrow	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	16 January 1979	Carlyle, SK	Dallas Stars (NHL)
61	F	Rick Nash	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)	99 kg (218 lb)	16 June 1984	Brampton, ON	Columbus Blue Jackets (NHL)
18	F	Mike Richards	180 cm (5 ft 11 in)	91 kg (201 lb)	11 February 1985	Kenora, ON	Philadelphia Flyers (NHL)
24	F	Corey Perry	191 cm (6 ft 3 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	16 May 1985	Peterborough, ON	Anaheim Ducks (NHL)
21	F	Eric Staal	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)	93 kg (205 lb)	29 October 1984	Thunder Bay, ON	Carolina Hurricanes (NHL)
19	F	Joe Thornton	193 cm (6 ft 4 in)	107 kg (236 lb)	2 July 1979	London, ON	San Jose Sharks (NHL)
16	F	Jonathan Toews	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)	96 kg (212 lb)	29 April 1988	Winnipeg, MB	Chicago Blackhawks (NHL)

Defencemen Jay Bouwmeester and Stéphane Robidas, forwards Jeff Carter, Steven Stamkos and Martin St. Louis, and goaltender Chris Mason were selected as reserves in case of injury during the tournament.^[46]

Group play

Canada played in Group A.

Round-robin

All times are local (UTC-8).

16 February 2010 16:30

Canada

8–0 (0–0, 3–0, 5–0)

Norway

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,652

Game reference
	Roberto Luongo	Goalies	Pål Grotnes (out 44:29) / André Lysenstøen (in 44:29)	Referees: Jyri Rönn Chris Rooney Linesmen: Stefan Fonselius Tim Nowak
	J. Iginla (S. Crosby, D. Doughty) (PP) – 22:30 1–0 D. Heatley (C. Pronger, J. Thornton) – 24:27 2–0 M. Richards (P. Bergeron, S. Weber) – 31:06 3–0 R. Getzlaf (S. Niedermayer, J. Toews) – 44:29 4–0 D. Heatley (P. Marleau, D. Boyle) (PP) – 46:43 5–0 J. Iginla (R. Nash, S. Crosby) – 47:36 6–0 C. Perry (E. Staal, D. Boyle) – 51:03 7–0 J. Iginla (R. Nash, S. Crosby) – 58:11 8–0
	10 min	Penalties	12 min
	42	Shots	15

18 February 2010 16:30

Switzerland

2–3 (SO) (0–1, 2–1, 0–0, 0–0, 0–1)

Canada

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,019

Game reference
	Jonas Hiller	Goalies	Martin Brodeur	Referees: Dennis LaRue Marcus Vinnerborg Linesmen: Peter Feola Tim Nowak
	0–1 9:21 – D. Heatley (P. Marleau, J. Toews) 0–2 20:35 – P. Marleau (D. Heatley, S. Weber) (PP) I. Rüthemann (M. Plüss, T. Paterlini) – 28:59 1–2 P. von Gunten (T. Monnet, P. Furrer) – 39:50 2–2
	H. Domenichelli R. Lemm R. Wick M. Plüss	Shootout	S. Crosby J. Toews R. Getzlaf S. Crosby
	14 min	Penalties	2 min
	23	Shots	47

21 February 2010 16:40

Canada

3–5 (1–2, 1–1, 1–2)

United States

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,910

Game reference
	Martin Brodeur	Goalies	Ryan Miller	Referees: Chris Rooney Brad Watson Linesmen: Thor Nelson Jay Sharrers
	0–1 0:41 – B. Rafalski (R. Suter, J. Langenbrunner) E. Staal (B. Seabrook, J. Toews) – 8:53 1–1 1–2 9:15 – B. Rafalski D. Heatley (J. Toews, S. Weber) – 23:32 2–2 2–3 36:46 – C. Drury (B. Ryan, D. Backes) 2–4 47:09 – J. Langenbrunner (B. Rafalski, R. Suter) (PP) S. Crosby (R. Nash, D. Keith) (PP) – 56:51 3–4 3–5 59:15 – R. Kesler (Z. Parise) (EN)
	8 min	Penalties	6 min
	45	Shots	23

Standings

Team v t e	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
United States	3	3	0	0	0	14	5	+9	9	Quarterfinals
Canada	3	1	1	0	1	14	7	+7	5
Switzerland	3	0	1	1	1	8	10	−2	3
Norway	3	0	0	1	2	5	19	−14	1

Final rounds

Qualification playoff

23 February 2010 16:30

Canada

8–2 (1–0, 3–1, 4–1)

Germany

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,723

Game reference
	Roberto Luongo	Goalies	Thomas Greiss	Referees: Jyri Rönn Chris Rooney Linesmen: Stefan Fonselius Brian Murphy
	J. Thornton (D. Heatley, D. Keith) – 10:13 1–0 S. Weber (M. Richards) – 22:32 2–0 J. Iginla (D. Doughty, E. Staal) (PP) – 23:41 3–0 J. Iginla (E. Staal, D. Boyle) – 28:50 4–0 4–1 36:34 – M. Goc (C. Schmidt, M. Müller) S. Crosby (E. Staal, D. Keith) – 41:10 5–1 M. Richards (B. Morrow, J. Toews) – 46:41 6–1 S. Niedermayer – 51:22 7–1 R. Nash (C. Pronger) – 56:28 8–1 8–2 58:58 – M. Klinge (M. Müller, K. Hospelt)
	6 min	Penalties	4 min
	39	Shots	23

Quarterfinal

24 February 2010 16:30

Russia

3–7 (1–4, 2–3, 0–0)

Canada

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,740

Game reference
	Evgeni Nabokov (out 24:07) / Ilya Bryzgalov (in 24:07)	Goalies	Roberto Luongo	Referees: Dennis LaRue Marcus Vinnerborg Linesmen: Thor Nelson Milan Novak
	0–1 2:21 – R. Getzlaf (D. Boyle, C. Pronger) 0–2 12:09 – D. Boyle (D. Heatley, P. Marleau) (PP) 0–3 12:55 – R. Nash (J. Toews, M. Richards) D. Kalinin (A. Volchenkov, S. Fedorov) – 14:39 1–3 1–4 18:18 – B. Morrow (D. Boyle, D. Keith) 1–5 23:10 – C. Perry (R. Getzlaf, D. Keith) 1–6 24:07 – S. Weber (J. Toews, J. Iginla) M. Afinogenov (I. Kovalchuk, D. Grebeshkov) – 24:46 2–6 2–7 29:51 – C. Perry (E. Staal, R. Getzlaf) S. Gonchar (E. Malkin) (PP) – 31:40 3–7
	10 min	Penalties	10 min
	28	Shots	42

Semifinal

26 February 2010 18:30

Canada

3–2 (2–0, 1–0, 0–2)

Slovakia

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,799

Game reference
	Roberto Luongo	Goalies	Jaroslav Halák	Referees: Dennis LaRue Jyri Rönn Linesmen: Stefan Fonselius Thor Nelson
	P. Marleau (S. Weber, S. Niedermayer) – 13:30 1–0 B. Morrow (C. Pronger, R. Getzlaf) – 15:17 2–0 R. Getzlaf (C. Perry, C. Pronger) (PP) – 36:54 3–0 3–1 51:35 – Ľ. Višňovský (J. Stümpel) 3–2 55:07 – M. Handzuš (R. Zedník, M. Šatan)
	2 min	Penalties	4 min
	28	Shots	21

Gold medal game

28 February 2010 12:15

United States

2–3 (OT) (0–1, 1–1, 1–0, 0–1)

Canada

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 17,748

Game reference
	Ryan Miller	Goalies	Roberto Luongo	Referees: Bill McCreary Dan O'Halloran Linesmen: Stefan Fonselius Jean Morin
	0–1 12:50 – J. Toews (M. Richards) 0–2 27:13 – C. Perry (R. Getzlaf, D. Keith) R. Kesler (P. Kane) – 32:44 1–2 Z. Parise (J. Langenbrunner, P. Kane) – 59:35 2–2 2–3 67:40 – S. Crosby (J. Iginla)
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	36	Shots	39

Women's tournament

In March 2009, the national team staff named 22 players to the 2009 World Championship team, as well as four additional players who would not compete in 2009 but could potentially be included in the Olympic roster.^[47] The final roster of 21 players was announced on 21 December 2009. Brianne Jenner, Jocelyne Larocque,^[48] Delaney Collins, Jennifer Wakefield and Gillian Ferrari were included in the centralized roster, but were cut before the Olympics.^[49] The team, which includes 14 Olympic veterans and seven players making their Olympic debut, is coached by Melody Davidson.^[50]

Roster

The following is the Canadian roster in the women's ice hockey tournament of the 2010 Winter Olympics.^[51]

Head Coach: Melody Davidson

Group play

Canada played in Group A.

Round-robin

All times are local (UTC-8).

13 February 2010 17:00

Canada

18–0 (7–0, 6–0, 5–0)

Slovakia

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,496

15 February 2010 14:30

Switzerland

1–10 (0–2, 1–3, 0–5)

Canada

UBC Winter Sports Centre, Vancouver Attendance: 5,413

17 February 2010 14:30

Canada

13–1 (5–0, 7–0, 1–1)

Sweden

UBC Winter Sports Centre, Vancouver Attendance: 5,483

Standings

Team v t e	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Canada	3	3	0	0	0	41	2	+39	9	Semifinals
Sweden	3	2	0	0	1	10	15	−5	6
Switzerland	3	1	0	0	2	6	15	−9	3	5–8th classification
Slovakia	3	0	0	0	3	4	29	−25	0

Final rounds

Semifinal

22 February 2010 17:00

Finland

0–5 (0–2, 0–1, 0–2)

Canada

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,324

Gold medal game

25 February 2010 15:30

Canada

2–0 (2–0, 0–0, 0–0)

United States

Canada Hockey Place, Vancouver Attendance: 16,805

Canada's Olympic luge team, announced on 19 December 2009, in Whistler, British Columbia, consisted of ten athletes: six individual competitors and two teams for the doubles event. The women's team consisted of Alex Gough, Regan Lauscher and Meaghan Simister. The men's singles team will comprise Sam Edney, Jeff Christie and Ian Cockerline. For the men's doubles event, two teams participated: Chris & Mike Moffat; and Tristan Walker & Justin Snith.^[52] The Fast Track Group, the title sponsor of the team, announced that they would give $1 million (which would be split between the athlete and Canadian Luge Federation) to any athlete that won a gold medal. The company also offered $50,000 for a silver and $5,000 for a bronze.^[53]

Canada sent a single athlete, Jason Myslicki, to compete in the Nordic combined.^[54]

Note: 'Deficit' refers to the amount of time behind the leader a competitor began the cross-country portion of the event. Italicized numbers show the final deficit from the winner's finishing time.

As the host nation, Canada can send a full team of five men and five women for short track speed skating.^[55] Charles Hamelin finished third overall at the 2009 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships and was guaranteed a spot in the 2010 team by Speed Skating Canada.^[56] At the Canadian short-track speedskating trials, Jessica Gregg, Marianne St-Gelais, Kalyna Roberge and Tania Vicent^[57] earned spots on the women's team and Olivier Jean and Guillaume Bastille earned spots on the men's team with their performances.^[58] Valérie Maltais and François Hamelin were added to the women's and men's teams respectively as discretionary picks by the coaches.^[59] François-Louis Tremblay was unable to participate in the trials due to an ankle injury, but was given a bye and was named to the team. The number of skaters that will participate in each event will be determined by the team's performances at the first three World Cup events for the 2009–10 season.^[59]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
François Hamelin	1000m	1:25.714	1 Q	1:25.037	2 Q	1:45.324	3 ADV	1:25.206	5
Charles Hamelin	500m	41.463	1 Q	40.770	1 Q	40.964	1 Q	40.981
	1000m	1:25.256	1 Q	1:25.300	1 Q	1:25.062	2 Q	1:24.329	4
	1500m	2:16.153	2 Q			2:11.225	3 q	Final B 2:11.225	7
François-Louis Tremblay	500m	41.397	1 Q	41.326	1 Q	41.515	2 Q	46.366
Olivier Jean	500m	41.737	2 Q	41.275	2 Q	DQ		did not advance	9
	1500m	2:14.279	1 Q			2:32.358	5 ADV	2:14.279	4
Guillaume Bastille	1500m	DQ		did not advance					T34
Charles Hamelin François Hamelin François-Louis Tremblay Olivier Jean Guillaume Bastille	5000m relay					6:43.610	2 Q	6:44.224

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jessica Gregg	500m	44.009	2 Q	43.956	2 Q	43.854	1 Q	44.204	4
	1000m	1:32.565	1 Q	1:30.207	2 Q	1:33.139	4 q	Final B 1:32.333	5
Marianne St-Gelais	500m	44.708	1 Q	44.316	1 Q	43.241	2 Q	43.707
Valérie Maltais	1500m	2:30.321	3 Q			2:23.722	5	did not advance	14
Kalyna Roberge	500m	44.254	2 Q	44.143	2 Q	43.633	3 q	Final B 43.633	6
	1000m	1:31.033	1 Q	1:31.479	2 Q	1:30.736	3 q	Final B 1:32.122	6
	1500m	2:23.619	2 Q			2:47.998	5	did not advance	13
Tania Vicent	1000m	1:37.561	2 Q	DQ		did not advance			17
	1500m	2:24.100	2 Q			2:24.742	2 Q	2:23.035	8
Kalyna Roberge Marianne St-Gelais Jessica Gregg Tania Vicent	3000m relay					4:11.476	2 Q	4:09.137

Canada's full six athlete team was announced on 27 January 2010.^[24]

Athlete(s)	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jon Montgomery	Men's	52.60	2	52.57	2	52.20	1	52.36	1	3:29.73
Jeff Pain	Men's	53.03	9	53.18	10	53.00	11	52.65	3	3:31.86	9
Michael Douglas	Men's	52.83	5	53.04	7	disqualified
Amy Gough	Women's	54.14	2	54.78	7	53.92	6	54.17	7	3:37.01	7
Mellisa Hollingsworth	Women's	54.18	5	54.17	3	53.81	2	54.44	11	3:36.60	5
Michelle Kelly	Women's	54.73	12	55.49	13	55.56	18	55.01	14	3:40.79	13

Canada's ski jumping team comprised Stefan Read, Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes, Trevor Morrice and Eric Mitchell.^[60] None of them reached the final.

Jasey-Jay Anderson secured an Olympic berth in the parallel giant slalom by winning the event at the 2009 FIS Snowboarding World Championships.^[61] The full 18 athlete team was announced on 25 January 2010.^[62]

Halfpipe

Parallel GS

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Time	Rank	Opposition time	Opposition time	Opposition time	Opposition time	Rank
Jasey-Jay Anderson	Men's parallel giant slalom	1:17.97	10 Q	Tyler Jewell (USA) (7) W -1.18	Rok Flander (SLO) (15) W -7.02	Stanislav Detkov (RUS) (11) W -1.72	Benjamin Karl (AUT) (4) W -0.35
Michael Lambert	Men's parallel giant slalom	1:17.81	6 Q	Stanislav Detkov (RUS) (11) L +12.05	did not advance			12
Matthew Morison	Men's parallel giant slalom	1:17.69	5 Q	Žan Košir (SLO) (12) L +0.25	did not advance			11
Caroline Calvé	Women's parallel giant slalom	1:26.38	20	did not advance				20
Alexa Loo	Women's parallel giant slalom	1:24.22	9 Q	Ankes Karstens (GER) (8) L +0.01	did not advance			12
Kimiko Zakreski	Women's parallel giant slalom	DNF	29	did not advance				29

Key: '+ Time' represents a deficit; the brackets indicate the results of each run.

Snowboard cross