Vancouver, Canada

Canada defeated the United States 3-2 for the ice hockey gold medal on Sunday. The triumph in the country’s favourite sport was Canada’s 14th gold medal, a talley never reached before at the Winter Games by any country.

“Alex (Bilodeau), your first gold (on February 15 in freestyle skiing) gave us permission to feel and behave like champions. Our last one will be remembered by generations,” said organizing committee head John Furlong at the closing ceremony.

Looking at the overall Games, Rogge spoke before the ceremony of “this extraordinary embrace of the entire city of the Olympic Games, something I have never seen on this scale before.”

This is Canadian body painting artist Joshua Andrews’ Oh Canada themed body painting with model Alex G.