Sunday, February 16, 2014

Alpine skiing: Lucky loonie helps Hudec end Canadian drought (Reuters)

Canada's third-placed Jan Hudec celebrates with a flag during a flower ceremony after the men's alpine skiing Super-G competition during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Cente February 16, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar


By Martyn Herman ROSA KHUTOR, LONDON (Reuters) – Jan Hudec had just won Canada’s first Olympic Alpine skiing medal for 20 years but his first priority was making sure someone dug up his lucky loonie. It is a tradition in Canada’s ski team to bury a dollar coin, known as a loonie, on the finish line for good luck so after claiming a bronze medal in the super-G it was no wonder the injury-plagued 32-year-old wanted it back. “After the second warm-up yesterday I almost forgot and I went to the finish line and buried a loonie,” Hudec told reporters after winning Canada’s first Olympic Alpine skiing medal since Ed Podivinsky’s downhill bronze in 1994.


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