When rower Krista Guloien led a contingent of 100 Canadian Olympians returning from Beijing down the escalator at Vancouver International Airport Monday she found a country more than satisfied with how the Summer Games turned out. ...full story at cbcnews
from cbcnews on Tue, Aug 26 2008
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