Congratulations to Team Canada

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I would like to congratulate the entire team of athletes who represented Canada at the 2014 Winter Olympics. You have all made us proud for you success!!! Thank you!

At these Games, Team Canada brought home a total of 25 Medals (10 Gold, 10 Silver, and 5 Bronze.)

The following athletes won medals for Canada:

GOLD

Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Women’s Moguls

Alexandre Bilodeau, Men’s Moguls

Charles Hamelin, Men’s 1,500 metres short track

Dara Howell, Women’s Slopestyle

Kaillie Humphries & Heather Moyse, Women’s bobsleigh

Jennifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer, Dawn McEwen, & Kirsten Wall, Women’s Curling

Marielle Thompson, Women’s Ski Cross

Brad Jacobs,Ryan Fry, E. J. Harnden, Ryan Harnden, & Caleb Flaxey, Men’s Curling

Women’s National Hockey Team: Meghan Agosta-Marciano, Rebecca Johnston, Lauriane Rougeau, Gillian Apps, Charline Labonté, Natalie Spooner, Mélodie Daout, Geneviève Lacasse, Shannon Szabados, Laura Fortino, Jocelyne Larocque, Jenn Wakefield, Jayna Hefford, Meghan Mikkelson-Reid, Catherine Ward, Haley Irwin, Caroline Ouellette, Tara Watchorn, Brianne Jenner, Marie-Philip Poulin, & Hayley Wickenheiser

Men’s National Hockey Team: Jamie Benn, Duncan Keith, Mike Smith, Patrice Bergeron, Chris Kunitz, Martin St. Louis Jay Bouwmeester, Roberto Luongo, P.K. Subban, Jeff Carter, Patrick Marleau, John Tavares, Sidney Crosby, Rich Nash, Jonathan Toews, Drew Doughty, Corey Perry, Marc-Édouard Vlasic, Matt Duchene, Alex Pietrangelo, Shea Weber, Ryan Getzlaf, Carey Price, Dan Hamhuis, & Patrick Sharp

SILVER

Chloé Dufour-Lapointe, Women’s Moguls

Mikaël Kingsbury, Men’s Moguls

Denny Morrison, Men’s 1,000 metres

Patrick Chan, Men’s Ice Skating

Dominique Maltais, Women’s Snowboard

Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir, Ice Dance

Mike Riddle, Men’s Halfpipe

Marie-Ève Drolet, Jessica Hewitt, Valérie Maltais, & Marianne St-Gelais, Women’s 3,000 metres Relay

Kelsey Serwa, Women’s Ski Cross

Canada Ice Skating Team (Team Event): Patrick Chan, Meagan Duhamel, Scott Moir, Kirsten Moore-Towers, Dylan Moscovitch, Kaetlyn Osmond, Eric Radford, Kevin Reynolds, & Tessa Virtue

BRONZE

Mark McMorris, Men’s Slopestyle

Kim Lamarre, Women’s Slopestyle

Denny Morrison, Men’s 1,500 metre Speed Skating

Jan Hudec, Men’s Super-G

Charle Cournoyer, Men’s 500 metre short track

Congratulations to all our athletes. You made Canada extremely proud.

There were nine different sports at the Winter Olympics, and Canada brings home at least one medal in each sport, including a total of nine in skiing. Over the course of the entire 16 days of these Olympics, Canada received at least one medal on all but two days.

Here is the playing of ‘O Canada’ and ‘The Maple Leaf Forever’ in honour of our athletes: