bethany lindsayblindsay@nsnews.comfor many viewers of friday’s openingceremonies, particularly those of thefemale gender, a shirtless “wolf man”stole the show.

north Vancouver’s dennis thomaswelcomed the world to Vancouver on behalfof the tsleil-waututh nation wearing a wolfpelt on his shoulders during an opening

performance by the Four host Firstnations.“that was quite a significant moment inhistory, and it was awesome to be a part ofit,” thomas said. “it was an adrenaline rushfor sure.”

he said that he was proud to be part ofa historical first for the olympic Games.“this is the first time ever that they’ve

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benjamin alldrittballdritt@nsnews.comcanada notched its first medal ofthe 2010 winter olympics saturdaynight when jennifer heil earnedsilver in ladies’ moguls.

after a strong qualifying performance,heil was the second-last skier to face thechallenging course of moguls and jumps.the 26-year-old defending olympicchampion produced an excellent runwhich placed her in the top spot with25.69 points. but she was denied aplace in canadian olympic history byamerican skier hannah Kearney, whoseblistering pace, precise turns and big-airjumps earned her 26.63 points and thewin. Fellow american shannon bahrketook the bronze.

mogul skiers are awarded points forspeed, the height and accuracy of theirtwo jumps and the technical precisionof their turns. Kearney was lookingfor some redemption after a disastrousperformance in turin in 2006 andclearly sensed the gold was within reachafter hurtling across the finish line.

canada’s chloe dufour-lapointehad held onto the gold medal spot untilbeing pushed into fifth by bahrke andjapan’s aiko uemura.

canada remains the only host countrynever to win a gold medal at home.

elsewhere, simon ammann won agold medal, the first of the Games, forswitzerland in individual ski jumping.ammann, who collects the thirdolympic gold medal of his career,was heavily favoured to win. Poland’sadam malysz won silver and Gregorschlierenzauer of austria takes homebronze. canada’s ski jumpers were notexpected to compete for medals and did

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astronaut touches down in Wvbethany lindsayblindsay@nsnews.comwest vancouver receiveda visitor from outer spaceon Thursday as canadianastronaut julie Payettehelped open the canadianspace agency’s Sports inSpace exhibit at the westvancouver communitycentre.

the Sports in Space exhibitwill stay open at the westVancouver celebrationsite until march 21. the

interactive installation looksat the parallels betweenthe lives of astronauts andolympian.

the similarities betweenhigh-level athletes andastronauts are almost toonumerous to name, Payettesaid. “both train for manyyears with a goal in mind. . . and they work hard toachieve that goal,” Payettesaid. once the date forcompetition or lift-off is set,“there’s very little chance to

not perform that day.”and the pressure on both

athletes and astronauts ishuge, Payette added. “thewhole country is watching,but most people don’t paymuch attention to athletesor astronauts while they’retraining.”

Payette, who has loggedmore than 611 hours in spaceand was the first canadianastronaut to board theinternational space station, isalso an avid athlete. she’s run

triathlons, loves skiing andhandball, and even competedin track and field events atthe canada Games, “but thatwas many, many years ago,”she was quick to add.

Payette said she wouldbe delighted to attend anyolympic event that she canfind tickets for while she’sin town this weekend, butwould be particularly keen towatch cross-country skiing,

Seven peoplewere arrested indowntownVancouver Saturdayafter police confronted a group ofroughly 200 violent anti-Olympic

protestors.The black-clad group smashedwindows at the Hudson’s Baystore, arguedwithOlympic

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bethany lindsayblindsay@nsnews.comone day into the olympics,both the seabus andthe horseshoe bay ferryterminal were swamped withpassengers.

despite increasing seabusservice to one sailing every 10minutes, about 100 passengerswere being left behind atlonsdale Quay on each tripsaturday morning. accordingto translink, however,travellers didn’t have to waitfor more than one boat.

at horseshoe bay ferryterminal, the transit servicereported that foot passengertraffic was “significantly above

normal,” and that additionalbuses were being sent to dealwith the extra volume.

bob Paddon, translink’svice-president of corporateand public affairs, said thatcommuters and event-goersshould give themselves plentyof leeway with travel time.

“we’re still suggesting thatpeople give themselves abouttwo hours for travel time,particularly with events,”he said. translink is alsorecommending that transitusers buy tickets in advance toavoid the lengthy lineups thatare building at transit stations.

“before you go, thinkabout where you want to

go. think about exactly howyou’re going to get there,”said Paddon. drivers cancheck the travelsmart2010.cawebsite for road closures andparking restrictions.

Public transit users canaccess the trip-planningfeature on translink’swebsite translink.bc.ca toplan their trips and viewa real-time map of trafficinterruptions throughoutthe region. travellers withinternet connections on theirmobile phones can accessupdated transit informationat translink’s mobile sitem.translink.ca.

translink has increased its

services along several routesthroughout the region. onthe north shore, the n24night bus will run throughoutthe night at half-hour intervalsalong lonsdale avenue andmarine drive.

Private ferry services havealso beefed up. coastal linkFerries, operating out ofambleside, is offering hourlytrips from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.seven days a week. coastallink will be taking passengersdirectly to Granville island onalternating trips.

Vancouver water taxi isoffering on-call service fromnorth or west Vancouver todowntown.

benjamin alldrittballdritt@nsnews.comTwo of this weekend’salpine skiing events had tobe rescheduled into nextweek after whistler receiveda heavy dump of rain andsnow over the past two days.

men’s downhill skiing wasoriginally scheduled for 11:45a.m. saturday, but heavy rainthrough Friday followed bymild temperatures yesterdaymorning left sections ofthe dave murray downhillcourse too slushy for racing.Forecasters also expectedfog, more rain and strongwinds near the middle of the3.1-kilometre course. therace, which will include northshore medal hopefuls manuelosborne-Paradis and robbiedixon, is now planned formonday, Feb. 15, at 10:30a.m.

ladies’ super-combinedcompetition, which includesone downhill run and oneslalom run for each skier, wassupposed to start today at 10a.m. at whistler creekside.but officials had already tornup that schedule on saturdayafter poor weather preventedthe day’s training runs. eventrules require that everycompetitor get a practice runon both courses before therace can go ahead.

while training run timesremains in doubt, the ladies’super-combined event isexpected to go ahead onthursday, Feb. 18, at 10 a.m.

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acknowledged an indigenous groupas an official partner,” thomas said.“it’s almost like setting a path forthe future.” it was also importantto show the world the diversity ofcanada’s First nations, he added.“we’re trying to break stereotypes.we all don’t live in igloos. we alldon’t live in teepees.”

thomas was picked to representhis nation after auditioning lastsummer. when he discovered thathe would be the centre of attention,giving a welcome in english andhis nation’s language halkomelem,“it was a big surprise.” thomassaid that he wasn’t nervous goinginto Friday’s ceremony, but “i’mone of the people who has toexperience something first hand. itwas surreal.”

after the ceremony, thomasmingled with olympic revelersdowntown, and was treated like acelebrity by those who had watchedthe opening ceremonies.

“a bunch of people recognizedme,” he said. “they always referredto me as the wolf man.”

his fiancée deneka michaudwatched the ceremony at thetsleil-waututh reserve in northVancouver, which she describedas a moving experience. “me andhis mom and his family were allbawling our eyes out,” she said. “itwas amazing.”

thomas is also the tsleil-waututh’s 2010 communityco-ordinator for the olympics.he’ll be working in the aboriginalpavilion in Vancouver as part of hisresponsibilities.

hockey, or freestyle skiing.she did not tip her hand

in the interview with theGames daily that she wouldbe helping to carry theolympic flag in the openingceremony.

canada’s goal of winningmore olympic medals thanany other country doesn’tseem that lofty to Payette.“all hopes are open for us tobe very successful,” she said.

on thursday, Payettealso answered a perennialquestion posed toastronauts: how do yougo to the bathroom on theinternational space station?

“we have a toilet onboard,” she said. the wasteis removed using a vacuum-like suction system, and thewastewater is eventuallyrecycled. “h2o is h2o andit tastes like h2o,” she said.“this is a system that in 30years will be in everyone’shomes.”

not reach the final stage.in men’s speed skating, sven Kramer of the netherlands

struck gold in the 5,000 metres, tailed by south Koreanseung-hoon lee and ivan skobrev of russia.

south Korea notched another speed skating medal onthe 1,500-metre short track, with jung-su lee in firstplace, apolo anton ohno of the united states earningsilver, and fellow american j.r. celski rounding out thepodium. canada’s oliver jean was fourth.

slovakia won its first-ever olympic gold medal saturday

when anastazia Kuzmina pulled out an unexpectedtriumph over Germany’s magdalena neuner in women’s7.5-km sprint biathlon. Frenchwoman marie dorin wonbronze.

Kuzima, ranked 28th in the world, crossed the finish line1.5 seconds before neuner, a six-time world champion.canada’s best finisher was 46th-place megan tandy.

although the medal games are still to come, canada’swomen’s hockey team made a little bit of history saturday,burying their slovakian opponents 18-0, the most lopsidedresult in olympic history. sweden dispatched switzerlandby the close score of 3-0 in other Group a action.

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Elizabeth Kravjanski and MariaArgo relax and watch theGames.

Renee Alfini and ShawnBedford help run the skatingrink.

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Rink (left) and MichelleSummers and Maria Velazquezspend some quality timetogether.

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Rahim (left) and Karim Khanand Jason Pascoe hit theslopes.

Fabiana Almeida (left),Carolina Leitão and MiguelRighetti are studying English inVancouver and in time for theGames.

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Aliva Peterson and LeighButcher share their smiles.

Marlene and Dennis Flandezcheck out events on the bigscreen.

Asha Sehra andMargaretHerman volunteer with NorthVancouver Tourism.

Steven and Tara Raketti showtheir Canadian pride.

Elaina and EugeueniaAdamovitch check out thefestivities.

Karolyn Haze (left), KatherineBorthwick and Dani Fuentesmake up the singing groupSolantra.

Jonathan Paluch and AngelaCummings, from Abbotsfordand Langley, take part in thecelebrations.

Elizabeth Phillips and herdaughter Elizabeth get readyfor their vocal performances atthe Quay.

Cindy Thompson andMarkMackay cheer on biathlon andcross-country athletes fromAlberta.

Ned and Sophia Jilazkov playwith a stuffed 201 Olympicmascot.

Centre:Kyla Rawlins, lead singer forWeathered Home, belts out thetunes.

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