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There were two closing ceremonies to the Vancouver Winter Olympics — the formal pageant of farewell, and Canada's melodramatic victory in the ice hockey final. The former was a rite, but the latter was much more momentous; it was a right.
All fortnight long, a team had dwelled on a medal, and a nation had dwelled on a team. So it was that from yesterday's rainy dawn, queues began to form outside bars showing the match, though they would not open for hours. So it was that scalpers did a roaring trade (the International Olympic Committee's attitude was typical: it affected to disdain scalping, then institutionalized it by promoting an official facility that limited prices to 10-times face value).
— Greg Baum, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald
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Source: CBC
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