Articles by Brian Lynch.

March 11, 2010 - 03:10 AM
Blog - Books

The shortlists for this year’s B.C. Book Prizes are announced

By Brian Lynch
The winners will be announced at the Lieutenant Governor’s B.C. Book Prizes Gala, on April 24 at Government House in Victoria. Up for grabs is a total of $14,000 in cash.
March 11, 2010 - 03:05 AM
Book Choice of the Week

The B.C. Book Prize shortlist shows strength and versatility

By Brian Lynch
The shortlists for this year’s B.C. Book Prizes were announced on March 11, and the lineup says a lot about the strength and versatility of writing in the province.
February 28, 2010 - 8:48 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Olympic closing ceremony gets surreal

By Brian Lynch
Here I was, just a few rows away from where I’d sat 16 days ago for the opening ceremonies—and here, again, were several thousand people wearing light-blue-paper ponchos.
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February 28, 2010 - 5:09 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Sidney Crosby delivers gold in Team Canada's dramatic finale to the Vancouver Winter Olympics

By Brian Lynch
Canada becomes the first host nation to win men's hockey gold since the 1980 "Miracle on Ice'.
February 27, 2010 - 5:49 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Kevin Martin and his Canadian rink take gold in Olympic men's curling

By Brian Lynch
The win came down to a simple take-out for Martin, and when he made it, this little building bursted into a joyful racket.
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February 27, 2010 - 2:18 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canadian men win Olympic speed-skating gold in team pursuit

By Brian Lynch
The noise level grew with each split time, as the Canadians took an early lead.
February 27, 2010 - 12:35 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Speed-skating team pursuits set to wrap up competition at the Richmond Olympic Oval

By Brian Lynch
I’ve grabbed a spot by the finish line for what’s certain to be an interesting series of races.
February 26, 2010 - 9:11 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canada takes a convincing men's hockey win against Slovakia and turns it into a nail-biter

By Brian Lynch
Team Canada has earned a spot in Sunday’s gold-medal hockey game against the U.S., with an effort that was nearly flawless—for about 55 minutes.
February 26, 2010 - 5:20 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Team Canada gets set for its semifinal game against Slovakia in Olympic men's hockey

By Brian Lynch
The Canadians better not be looking past the Slovaks to Sunday’s big game, or they could wind up playing for the wrong medal.
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February 26, 2010 - 2:37 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Team USA steamrolls the Finns 6-1 in the semifinals of Olympic men's hockey

By Brian Lynch
It was the youth of American players like Patrick Kane and Zach Parise against the battle-tested experience of Finns like Teemu Selanne and Miikka Kiprusoff. And the youth won big-time.
February 26, 2010 - 11:28 AM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Team USA faces off against Finland in Olympic men's hockey semifinal

By Brian Lynch
Just minutes now from the pregame warmup for the American and Finnish men’s hockey teams here at Canada Hockey Place.
February 25, 2010 - 7:09 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

The Canadian women's hockey team defeats its American rivals for Olympic gold

By Brian Lynch
The intensity of this reunion radiated from the ice into the stands, where the packed, frenzied, highly partisan crowd let loose with every turn in the play.
February 25, 2010 - 3:25 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canadian women's hockey team aims for the highest spot on the podium

By Brian Lynch
If they prevail today, Team Canada will join a highly select club: in the history of Olympic women’s team sports.
February 24, 2010 - 8:18 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canada rolls over Russia in Olympic men's hockey

By Brian Lynch
Unlike in every one of their previous outings in this tournament, the Canadians flew out of the gate.
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February 24, 2010 - 2:44 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

The U.S. men's hockey team eliminates Switzerland in a strangely close game

By Brian Lynch
Team USA faced one of the worst kinds of opponent you can run across in a one-game knockout tournament.
February 24, 2010 - 2:40 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canada-Russia hockey matchup promises a historic duel

By Brian Lynch
Just how badly do Canadian hockey fans want a victory in today’s game between Team Canada and the Russian Federation? The anxiety is as thick as cement.
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February 24, 2010 - 12:04 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Olympic men’s hockey quarter finals kick off with USA versus Switzerland

By Brian Lynch
A huge day is about to get under way here at Canada Hockey Place.
February 23, 2010 - 7:55 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canada routs Germany to set up a tilt against arch rival Russia in men's hockey

By Brian Lynch
Tonight the Canadians matched the goal total they piled up the last time Roberto Luongo started in net, a week ago against Norway.
February 23, 2010 - 6:16 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Second period report: Canada versus Germany in Vancouver Olympics hockey

By Brian Lynch
Jarome Iginla has scored twice in the second, and Marcel Goc of Germany has replied by breaking Roberto Luongo’s stretch of shutout hockey.
February 23, 2010 - 5:21 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

First period report: Canada versus Germany in Vancouver Olympics hockey

By Brian Lynch
When your opponents don’t register a shot on goal for over half a period, you can’t say that things are going poorly for your hockey team.
February 23, 2010 - 3:41 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Team Canada ready for its first playoff test against Germany

By Brian Lynch
The spectators for the Canada-Germany qualifying match will start arriving in the next few minutes, and within an hour this echoing, near-silent place will be blaring.
February 22, 2010 - 9:05 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir win gold for Canada in Olympic ice dance

By Brian Lynch
When their first-place score was announced and the couple waved to the crowd, the noise in the building was jet-engine loud.
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February 22, 2010 - 4:11 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir look to hold on to gold-medal position in Olympic ice dance

By Brian Lynch
Ice dance is the closest the Winter Games get to Broadway, outside of the opening and closing ceremonies.
February 21, 2010 - 8:22 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Inconsistency kills Canada's chances against the U.S. in Olympic men's hockey

By Brian Lynch
While the Americans ranged from generally okay to quite good, the Canadians were, at crucial points, just brutal.
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February 21, 2010 - 3:40 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canada suits up for a crucial test against the USA in Olympic men's hockey

By Brian Lynch
Today’s matchups require everyone to start ratcheting their game up to elite levels.
February 21, 2010 - 2:37 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Russian offensive genius on display against the Czechs in Olympic men's hockey

By Brian Lynch
Just as Wayne Gretzky looked like a scarecrow out there, back in the old days, Alexander Ovechkin looks like a bag of laundry. There’s often something unlikely about the packages that hockey genius comes wrapped in.
February 21, 2010 - 11:10 AM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

The table is set for a smorgasbord of Olympic men's hockey

By Brian Lynch
In the middle of it all is the most anticipated game of the tourney so far: Canada versus the U.S., the same two teams that met in the finals at Salt Lake City in 2002.
February 20, 2010 - 6:11 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canada can't keep up with the Netherlands in men's 1,500-metre long-track speed skating

By Brian Lynch
Of all the sports at the Winter Games, long-track speed-skating comes the closest to simulating flight.
February 20, 2010 - 3:54 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canadians Denny Morrison and Lucas Makowsky get set to chase medals at the Richmond Olympic Oval

By Brian Lynch
The 1,500-metre is one of those horrific middle distances—too far to sprint, too short to settle into a comfortable long-distance pace.
February 19, 2010 - 10:19 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canadian women's curlers remain undefeated with a win over Denmark

By Brian Lynch
The spectators got rowdy at tonight's match, as if there’s something that drives the human heart mad about the sight of a polished rock twirling slowly along a sheet of ice.
February 19, 2010 - 3:59 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

The Sedin twins help Sweden to a win over Belarus

By Brian Lynch
Back in the 2002 Winter Olympics, Belarus paved the way for Team Canada by knocking out the tournament-favourite Swedes.
February 19, 2010 - 12:02 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Olympic men's hockey pregame: Sweden versus Belarus

By Brian Lynch
When in doubt, head down to Canada Hockey Place for more of the preliminary round of the men’s tournament.
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February 18, 2010 - 8:18 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canada needs shootout to beat Switzerland in Olympic men's hockey

By Brian Lynch
The game was highly entertaining—certainly too entertaining for Team Canada head coach Mike Babcock and his staff.
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February 18, 2010 - 6:06 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Second period summary: Canada versus Switzerland

By Brian Lynch
A 2-2 tie after two periods is probably not what Team Canada or this hometown crowd was counting on tonight, but that’s what they’re facing.
February 18, 2010 - 5:22 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

First period summary: Canada versus Switzerland

By Brian Lynch
Team Canada definitely had the puck more often than not in the first period, in part because of three penalties taken by their Swiss opponents.
February 18, 2010 - 3:56 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Olympics men's hockey pregame: Canada versus Switzerland

By Brian Lynch
Today’s game is against Switzerland will be a larger task for Canadian captain Scott Niedermayer and his squad.
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February 18, 2010 - 11:01 AM
Recordings

The Hotrats revisit the classics on Turn Ons

By Brian Lynch
Turn Ons (Fat Possum)
February 17, 2010 - 9:17 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Shaun White towers over Olympic snowboard halfpipe competition

By Brian Lynch
White drops into his runs with a lot more aggression than anyone else, and whenever he rockets past the lip he tumbles and hangs like a punted football.
February 17, 2010 - 5:02 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Shaun White rolls through to the finals of the Olympic men's snowboard halfpipe

By Brian Lynch
The defending gold-medallist in this event can do things in the air that no one else in the world can do.
February 16, 2010 - 7:30 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Olympic men's hockey postgame roundup: Canada versus Norway

By Brian Lynch
Talent-riddled Team Canada launched its attempt at an Olympic gold medal tonight with an 8-0 victory over Norway at Canada Hockey Place.
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February 16, 2010 - 6:03 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Second period summary: Canada versus Norway

By Brian Lynch
Two and a half minutes into this second period , the Canadian fans finally got what they paid for: a goal scored by Jarome Iginla, on a blast from the high slot.
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February 16, 2010 - 5:23 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

First period summary: Canada versus Norway

By Brian Lynch
I’ve never seen a large crowd as happy as the one that greeted Team Canada with a bellow when the squad took the ice for its warmup skate.
February 16, 2010 - 3:55 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

The ramp-up to Team Canada’s debut hockey game

By Brian Lynch
Is it a good thing for Team Canada to start this Olympic tournament with what appears to be a totally outclassed opponent?
February 16, 2010 - 12:58 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Olympic men’s curling update: Canada wins in the 11th

By Brian Lynch
The match against Norway went to a dramatic 11th end, tied 6-6.
February 16, 2010 - 11:45 AM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Day one of curling at the Vancouver Olympic Centre

By Brian Lynch
I’m at the Vancouver Olympic Centre near Queen Elizabeth Park, where the Canadian men’s curling team is locked in sliding-and-sweeping combat with its Norwegian adversaries.
February 15, 2010 - 9:30 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

China dominates Olympic pairs figure skating at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver

By Brian Lynch
The best athletes in any sport are praised for making the difficult appear easy. But figure skaters also have to make what they do look like something profound, sincere, wrapped up in a moment of genuine emotion.
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February 15, 2010 - 4:27 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Olympic pairs figure skating on the way

By Brian Lynch
The media-shuttle ride over here this afternoon gave me a taste of the event to come.
February 14, 2010 - 7:38 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Canadian moguls skier Alexandre Bilodeau finally brings an Olympic gold medal home

By Brian Lynch
It was electrifying to be just feet from the finish line when moguls skier Alexandre Bilodeau crossed it and set off an explosion of cheers in the packed grandstand.
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February 14, 2010 - 1:30 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Getting set for Olympic men's moguls skiing

By Brian Lynch
The sky is blue, and sunshine highlights the mashed brown grass of the snowless ski runs nearby.
February 13, 2010 - 7:43 PM
Olympic Journal | Olympics

Jung-su Lee and Apolo Anton Ohno offer thrills and spills at Olympic short-track speed skating

By Brian Lynch
The contrast between the long-form racing at the Richmond oval and this sport—its scrappier little brother—gets even sharper when you see it from the stands.
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