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Five gold medals awarded on February 20 from Torino Winter Olympic Games in Turino, Italy. Today, Canada won a gold medal at Canadian’s favorite winter sport—Ice Hockey. Team Canada Women’s Ice Hockey Team defended its gold the 2nd times in winter olympics. ›› read more

Ice Hockey - Women’s Ice Hockey
Hockey sur glace - Hockey sur glace femmes
Hockey su ghiaccio - Hockey su ghiaccio femminile
Becky KELLAR, Colleen SOSTORICS, Cherie PIPER, Katie WEATHERSTON, Gillian FERRARI, Gillian APPS, Cheryl POUNDER, Caroline OUELLETTE, Danielle GOYETTE, Jayna HEFFORD, Jennifer BOTTERILL, Carla MACLEOD, Meghan AGOSTA, Hayley WICKENHEISER, Sarah VAILLANCOURT, Gina KINGSBURY, Charline LABONTE, Kim ST-PIERRE, Vicky SUNOHARA, Cassie CAMPBELL (Canada) | view the podium moment

Alpine Skiing - Men’s Giant Slalom
Ski alpin - Slalom géant hommes
Sci alpino - Slalom Gigante maschile
Benjamin RAICH (Austria) | view the podium moment

Alpine Skiing - Ladies’ Super-G
Ski alpin - Super-G dames
Sci alpino - Super-G femminile
Michaela DORFMEISTER (Austria)

Figure Skating - Ice Dancing
Patinage artistique - Danse sur glace
Pattinaggio di figura - Danza sul ghiaccio
Tatiana NAVKA and Roman KOSTOMAROV (Russia) | view the podium moment

Ski Jumping - Large Hill Team Competition
Saut à ski - LH par équipe compétition
Salto - Gara LH a squadre
Martin KOCH, Andreas KOFLER, Thomas MORGENSTERN, Andreas WIDHOELZL (Austria) | view the podium moment

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Golden Girls - Canada savours Olympic victory

TURIN, Italy — The Canadian women’s hockey team completed a dominating performance at the Winter Olympics by defending its gold medal with a 4-1 win over Sweden on Monday.

The game was anticlimactic as the anticipated Canada-U.S. final did not materialize, due to Sweden’s upset of the Americans in the semifinal.

But the Canadian players stormed off the bench, throwing their sticks and gloves in the air en route to a group hug of goaltender Charline Labonte.

“It never gets tiring, that’s for sure,” Canadian forward Vicky Sunohara told CBC.

They then took a few laps of the ice waving Canadian flags and saluted the crowd with one that combined both the Canadian and Italian flags.

Source: canada.com

After a depressing loss in Team Canada Men’s Ice Hockey, the Team Canada Women’s Ice Hockey defeated Sweden with an impressive score of 4 to 1!!! Team Canada defended its second consecutive gold in ice hockey at Turino Winter Olympic Games, Italy. Way to go, Team Canada. So, who exactly scored the goals at the Games?

Goals from Canada’s Golden Girls

Gillian Apps - view profile
Caroline Ouellette - view profile
Cherie Piper - view profile
Jayna Hefford - view profile

* Hayley Wickenheiser and Jennifer Botterill each had two assists.

Click here to view Gold Medal Hockey podium ceremony video clip..

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This is to follow up with my previous posting regarding Tongue Piercing.

Here is a good article discussing body piercing complications: Complications of Body Piercing¹, published in American Family Physician (a journal from American Academy of Family Physicians).

Complications of Mouth Piercing

Airway compromise, altered eating habits, gingival trauma, hematoma formation, increased salivary flow, infection, injury to salivary glands, interference with radiographs, loss of taste, Ludwig’s angina, pain, permanent numbness, speech impediments, tooth fracture or chipping, uncontrolled drooling

Source: see below

¹ Complications of Body Piercing. Am Fam Physician. 2005 Nov 15;72(10):2029-34.

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Three gold medalists today at Turino Olympics. Canada won two silver medals today as well in Bobsleigh - Two-Man Competition (Pierre LUEDERS & Lascelles BROWN) and in Speed Skating - Ladies’ 1000 m (Cindy KLASSEN).

Bobsleigh - Two-Man Competition
Bobsleigh - Bob à deux - compétition
Bob - Gara di bob a due
Andre LANGE & Kevin KUSKE (Germany) | view photo here

Cross-Country Skiing - Men’s 4×10 km Relay
Ski de fond - Relais 4×10 km hommes
Sci di fondo - Staffetta 4×10 km maschile
Fulvio VALBUSA, Giorgio di CENTA, Pietro PILLER COTTRER, Cristian ZORZI (Italy) | view photo here

Speed Skating - Ladies’ 1000 m
Patinage de vitesse - 1 000 m dames
Pattinaggio di velocità - 1.000 m femminile
Marianne TIMMER (Netherlands) | view photo here

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Kids who drink bottled water risk tooth decay: American Dental Association

More and more Americans are guzzling bottled water every year – some 7.5 billion gallons were sucked back in 2005, according to preliminary figures from the Beverage Marketing Corp. – and that has some dentists worrying about tooth decay.

The American Dental Association says most bottled water doesn’t have enough fluoride in it to fight the bacteria-produced acids that erode teeth.

The issue is not whether bottled water is good or bad, the ADA says, but whether a child is getting adequate fluoride protection - either through drinking water or from other sources.

Source: cbc.ca

Bottled water, especially those that have no minerals, is definitively more inferior than the tap water, in terms of fluoride content.

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