VANCOUVER — Canada won four medals on Friday — three in speed skating and one in curling — as the normally glory-starved nation leaped into the lead for total gold medals.
Quebec's Charles Hamelin won two gold medals, grabbing the top spot in the Olympic men's short-track 5,000 metres relay on Friday and winning a chaotic men's 500-metre short-track skate. Canada now has 10 golds, while the U.S. has eight and Germany has nine.
Canada's curlers went way off their Olympic script on Friday, as the heavily favoured women's team hurled away the gold medal to Sweden in a heart-stopping, high-decibel final on home soil.
The loss of gold in the temple of curling piles pressure not only on Canada's unbeaten men curlers in a final against Norway on Saturday, but also on the other Winter Games sport where Canadians demand dominance — ice hockey.
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