Canada ended the Vancouver Winter Olympics on the perfect note last night with a 3-2 overtime win over rivals USA in the men's ice hockey final to claim the gold medal.
Canada had lead the match for a long time but with 23 seconds remaining the US snatched a dramatic equaliser through Zach Perise to stun the home crowd into silence. However Canada didn't panic and fittingly it was crowd favourite Sidney Crosby who scored the golden goal 7 minutes into over time to clinch a 14th gold for the host nation - a record for a country staging the Winter Olympics.
Having never followed ice hockey or properly watched it i found myself engrossed in the final , and cheering on the home nation, and even found myself enjoying their success, if only Great Britain could be half decent at the winter games or even the normal athletics events id get right behind them!!
I will now pay more attention to the Ice Hockey on the ESPN sports channel!!
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