Editing 2002 Winter Olympics (section)

==Highlights==
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[[File:US Navy 020208-N-3995K-002 2002 Olympics - WTC Flag.jpg|thumb|Members of the US Olympic team at the [[Rice–Eccles Stadium|Rice–Eccles Olympic Stadium]] holding the American flag that flew over the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001]]
[[File:Lawton Redman 2002 Winter Olympics b.jpg|thumb|The men's 10km sprint biathlon race at [[Soldier Hollow]] during the Games on February 13, 2002]]
[[File:E center interior 2002 olympic venue.jpg|thumb|The [[E Center]] during a hockey match on February 11, 2002]]
* Competition highlights included biathlete [[Ole Einar Bjørndalen]] of Norway, winning gold in all four men's events (10&nbsp;km, 12.5&nbsp;km, 20&nbsp;km, 4 x 7.5&nbsp;km relay), [[Nordic combined]] athlete [[Samppa Lajunen]] of Finland winning three gold medals, [[Simon Ammann]] of Switzerland taking the double in ski jumping. In alpine skiing, [[Janica Kostelić]] won three golds and a silver (the first Winter Olympic medals ever for an athlete from Croatia), while [[Kjetil André Aamodt]] of Norway earned his second and third career golds, setting up both athletes to beat the sport's record with their fourth golds earned at the next [[Alpine skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics|Winter Olympics near Turin]] (Aamodt also set the overall medal record in the sport with eight).
* [[Team GB]]'s victory in [[Curling at the 2002 Winter Olympics|Women's Curling]] saw them win their first gold medal in any Winter Olympic sport since [[Torvill and Dean]] in [[1984 Winter Olympics|1984]].
* Ireland reached its best-ever position and came close to winning its first winter medal when [[Clifton Wrottesley]] (Clifton Hugh Lancelot de Verdon Wrottesley, 6th Baron Wrottesley) finished fourth in the men's skeleton event.
* A feature of these Games was the emergence of extreme sports, such as snowboarding, moguls, and aerials, some of which appeared in previous Olympic Winter Games but subsequently captured greater public attention.
* The United States completed a sweep of the podium in halfpipe [[snowboarding]], with Americans [[Ross Powers]], [[Danny Kass]], and [[Jarret Thomas]] all winning medals.
* American [[Sarah Hughes]] won the gold medal in ladies' singles figure skating. Her team-mate [[Michelle Kwan]] fell during her long program and received the bronze medal.
* China won its first and second Winter Olympic gold medals, both by women's short-track speed skater [[Yang Yang (A)]].
* In the [[Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres|men's 1000m]] competition in short-track speed skating, Australian [[Steven Bradbury (speed skater)|Steven Bradbury]] (who had won a bronze in [[1994 Winter Olympics|1994]] as part of a relay team) became both the first-ever Australian, and the first-ever athlete from a country in the [[Southern Hemisphere]], to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics. Despite being off their pace, Bradbury benefitted from crashes involving his opponents in both the semi-finals and finals, with the latter occurring coming out of the final turn.<ref name="lastman">{{Cite news|date=February 17, 2002|title=Australia win first ever gold|work=[[BBC Sport]]|publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]]|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1825000/1825339.stm|access-date=July 21, 2009|archive-date=January 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110127085914/http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1825000/1825339.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="fall">{{Cite news|date=February 18, 2002|title=Australia salutes Bradbury|work=[[BBC Sport]]|publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]]|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1826000/1826962.stm|access-date=July 21, 2009|archive-date=June 28, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628151235/http://news.bbc.co.uk/winterolympics2002/hi/english/skating/newsid_1826000/1826962.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> A few days later in [[Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Women's aerials|women's aerials]], Australian skier [[Alisa Camplin]] won Australia's second gold medal.<ref>{{cite web|title=ESPN.com - Camplin's aerials win gives Aussies second gold|url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/winter02/freestyle/news?id=1336030|access-date=September 24, 2021|website=www.espn.com|archive-date=September 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924014932/https://www.espn.com/olympics/winter02/freestyle/news?id=1336030|url-status=live}}</ref>  After the Games, the phrase "doing a Bradbury" would become a local [[idiom]] for an unexpected victory in a sporting event at the expense of one's opponents, and was added to the second edition of [[The Australian National Dictionary|<u>''The Australian National Dictionary''</u>]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite web|date=August 23, 2016|title='Do a Bradbury' and 'bogan' among 6,000 new entries in Australian National Dictionary|url=http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/23/do-a-bradbury-and-bogan-among-6000-new-entries-in-australian-national-dictionary|access-date=September 25, 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=September 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925193231/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/23/do-a-bradbury-and-bogan-among-6000-new-entries-in-australian-national-dictionary|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Belarus's [[Vladimir Kopat]] scored a [[game winning goal]] from center ice against Sweden in the men's ice hockey quarterfinals, getting Belarus to their best place in international hockey so far.
* The [[Canada men's national ice hockey team|Canadian men's ice hockey team]] defeated the United States team 5–2 to claim the gold medal, ending a 50-year drought without hockey gold. The Canadian women's team also defeated the American team 3–2 after losing to them in [[Ice hockey at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament|Nagano]]. In a post-game press conference after the men's gold medal game, Team Canada's executive director [[Wayne Gretzky]] revealed that a [[Loonie|Canadian $1 coin]] (colloquially known as a "Loonie") had been secretly placed at center ice by one of the ice technicians. The "lucky Loonie" subsequently became a notable symbol of Canada's victory in the tournament.<ref>{{cite news|last=Vecsey|first=Laura|date=February 25, 2002|title=Canadians go absolutely loonie over hockey gold|work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83322694.html|url-status=dead|access-date=August 14, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130824213335/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-83322694.html|archive-date=August 24, 2013|via=Highbeam}}</ref><ref name="OlympicHistory">{{cite book|last=Podnieks|first=Andrew|url=https://archive.org/details/canadasolympicho0000podn/page/201|title=Canada's Olympic Hockey History 1920–2010|publisher=Fenn Publishing|year=2009|isbn=978-1-55168-323-2|location=Toronto|page=[https://archive.org/details/canadasolympicho0000podn/page/201 201]}}</ref>