POSTED: February 15th 2010
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Bilodeau makes history as first Canadian to win Olympic host gold
KEIR RADNEDGE / Sports Features Communications
VANCOUVER: Panic over, pressure eased. Canada finally, as an Olympic host, has a gold medallist. Third time lucky. After predecessors’ failure to produce in Montreal in 1976 and in Calgary in 1988, Alexandre Bilodeau made history by winning the men’s moguls on Cypress Mountain.
The hosts thus ended the second full day of competition with a full haul of medals after Jenn Heil’s silver in the women’s moguls and Kristina Groves’s bronze at the Richmond Skating Oval.
Bilodeau took gold ahead of Australia's Canadian born-and-raised Dale Begg-Smith and Bryson Wilson of the United States.
Canadian success took the edge, to some extent, off complaints from spectators about inadequate arrangements in terms of both shelter and food on Cypress Mountain.
Organisers have promised to try to improve both facility support and transport links. To some extent, it seems, they had fallen surprised victim to their own success.
Keywords · Winter Olympics · Bilodeau · Canada
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