The last days on winter games in Canada

Norway´s king of skiing and flag bearer Petter Northug received his gold medal at the closing ceremony in BC Place in Whistler Vancouver in front of 60,000 audience.

Petter Northug from Norway with gold medal in the middle, German Axel Teichmann(left) got a silver, and a bronze to Swedish(right).

Heia heia Petter! Bra!

Petter Northug of Norway won gold medal in the 50 kilometers cross country. While Axel Teichmann from Germany got silver.

Petter Northug received a royal reception when he arrived at Værnes Airport with his 4 medals, 2 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze. His father is happy and proud as well as the crowd who waited to congratulate the king of skiing.

Norwegian Kristin S. Steira 4th place and Polish Kowalczyk 3rd place with a small margin between.

Marit Bjørgen showing her 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze, she won in the winter olympic in Vancouver on February. The Americans are also impressed.

Svindal from Norway won in 5 events: giant slalom, speed trap, skicross, a paralelle, a fun track.

Aksel L. Svindal won gold, silver and bronze in 2010 winter olympic in Vancouver. Well done Aksel!

Thumbs up for olympic finals. The Norwegian curling team with their leader Thomas Ulsrud in front of the camera man.The curling team celebrated the silver medals in full clown costume on the finals Feb. 28, 2010. Canada won the gold.

Biathlon guys with Ole Einar Bjørndalen. Ole, Emil, Tarjei and Halvard from Norway won first place.

A very happy moment for this great team and at the same time sad because Halvard Hanevold´s last winter olympic.

Halvard Hanevold, Emil H. Svendsen, Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Tarjei Bø celebrating the gold medal they won as a team, with good champagne.

The other two Norwegians who won gold medals, also on olympic biathlon are Tora Berger and Emil H. Svendsen.

Norwegian Ole Einar Bjørndalen finally smile when he won a gold medal with his team and he secured a silver medal in relay in Vancouver winter olympics. Ole Einar Bjørndalen is the king of biathlon. He used to win more than two medals in a season when in good condition.

Norwegian Halvard Hanevold runs for his last olympic biathlon race this year. He won a gold medal together with his team. We are going to miss this athlete and good guy Halvard Hanevold.

Olympic Winter Games Medals: None of the 1014 medals are made quite the same.

Country ----------------------Gold----Silver----Bronze----Total

1. United States .......................9 ...........15 ............13 ............37

2. Germany ............................10 ..........13 ..............7 ............30

3. Canada ...............................14 ............7 ..............5 ............26

4. Norway ...............................9 .............8 ..............6 ............23

5. Austria ................................4 .............6 .............6 .............16

6. Russian Federation ..............3 .............5 .............7 ............15

7. Korea ..................................6 .............6 .............2 .............14

8. China ...................................5 .............2 .............4 .............11

9. Sweden ................................5 .............2 .............4 .............11

10. France ..............................2 ..............3 .............6 .............11

11. Switzerland ........................6 .............0 .............3 ..............9

12. Netherlands ......................4 ..............1 .............3 ..............8

13. Czech Republic ..................2 ..............0 ............4 ..............6

14. Poland ...............................1 ..............3 ............2 ...............6

15. Italy ..................................1 ..............1 .............3 ..............5

16. Japan .................................0 .............3 .............2 ..............5

17. Finland ..............................0 ..............1 ............4 ..............5

18. Australia ............................2 ..............1 ............0 ..............3

19. Belarus ...............................1 ..............1 .............1 ..............3

20. Slovakia .............................1 ..............1 .............1 ..............3

21. Croatia ...............................0 ..............2 .............1 .............3

22. Slovenia .............................0 ..............2 .............1 .............3

23. Latvia ................................0 ..............2 .............0 .............2

24. Great Britain ......................1 ..............0 ..............0 ............1

25. Estonia ..............................0 ..............1 ..............0 ............1

26. Kazakhstan ........................0 ..............1 ..............0 ............1


Ski jumping _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Snowboard _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Speedskating

Nordic combined _ _ _ Short track speed skating _ _ _ Skeleton

Freestyle skiing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ice hockey _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Luge

Cross-country _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Curling _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Figure skating

Alpine skiing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Biathlon _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Bobsleigh

Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette cried after performing due to the sudden death of her mother.

Canadian Joannie Rochette(right) who suddenly lost her mother and Slovenian Petra Majdic(left) who suffered broken ribs while training, received Inspirations Award. Both of them showed tremendous courage competing during the olympics in Vancouver this year.

A woman from the UK could finally laugh at the cold bob tour.

Tooth broke when David Møller bite the silver. To the right was gold winner Felix Loch. The medals are the heaviest in olympic games history, weighs 500 to 576 grams.

Norwegian Magnus Moan in ski-jump combined track was frustrated when American competitors won double places.

- the masoria papers