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Yahoo! Dominates Traffic Numbers for Online Olympic Coverage (234 diggs) You would think that NBC's firm hold/forced shoddy coverage would have "won" the Olympics from an online perspective. You would be very wrong.

Shirtless Shaun White Burns Snowboard on Rolling Stone Cover (323 diggs) The Olympic gold medalist is back on the cover. According to the magazine, a lot of White's recent success on the half-pipe and off can be attributed to a new addition to his life: "Getting into music has changed my personality and my way of doing things ... I"m far more open now."

Five Biggest Olympic Controversies of All Time (308 diggs) The Olympic Games have been followed by countries around the world for centuries. Despite wartime cancellations and disqualified countries due to controversial topics such as apartheid, every two years the countries, athletes and spectators come back with renewed vigor and excitement.

U.S. Olympic Bobsledders Ready to Fight in Middle East (214 diggs) "I'll do what they want and I'll be where they need me when they need me, whether it's in Afghanistan or bobsledding next year," Napier said.

Curling Craze Sweeps Across America (299 diggs) Though Vancouver's Winter Olympics have ended, the sport invented in Scotland has emerged as a smash hit in the US, where its popularity has reached heights previously reserved for baseball and basketball.

25 Most Memorable Moments from the Vancouver Games (344 diggs) An instant look back at the Winter Olympics.

Fractions of a Second: An Olympic Musical -Interactive Graph (310 diggs) The closeness of some Olympic races can be hard to perceive. Listen to the differences.

Canada Takes Out USA in OT, Wins Gold Medal in Men's Hockey (4,856 diggs) Team Canada avenged its loss a week ago to Team USA when it counted, by beating the Americans 3-2 in overtime to win gold at the Olympics.

Hannah Teter Sells Panties For Haiti (351 diggs) 2010 Olympic silver medalist Hannah Teter started 'Sweet Cheeks' panties to raise money for charity, and proceeds now aid Doctors Without Borders' work in Haiti.

Winter Olympics in High Resolution (50 Pics) (410 diggs) Photo highlights for Saturday, February 27, 2010 at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver Canada. From Hockey and Bobsled to Cross Country and Speed Skating.

Chinese Gymnastics Team May be Stripped of Bronze from 2000 (400 diggs) The international gymnastics officials who cleared China's team of age violations during the Beijing Games now say the country should return an Olympics bronze medal it won 10 years ago because one of its athletes was only 14 at the time.

Canadian men defeat Norway to take curling gold (478 diggs) Canada won the gold medal in its No. 2 sport of curling, with Kevin Martin's men defeating a Norwegian foursome that charmed the Olympics with its celebrated flamboyant pants.

US sets medals record, Canada ties gold record (359 diggs) The United States is guaranteed 37 medals and Canada will finish with at least 13 gold medals. Both are the best of these games and part of the greatest hauls ever at a Winter Olympics.

'Night Train' gives US 1st 4-man gold since 1948 (318 diggs) With one more perfect run down sliding's most difficult track, Steven Holcomb drove USA-1 to the Olympic gold medal in four-man bobsledding on Saturday, ending a 62-year drought for the Americans in the event.

Italy's Giuliano Razzoli wins Olympic men's slalom (191 diggs) Giuliano Razzoli has won the Olympic men's slalom, Italy's first Alpine medal in the Winter Games in 16 years.

Canada Wins Its Most Gold Medals in Olympics History (1,535 diggs) With a surge of victories in the final days of the games, including two more on Saturday, Canada has won more gold medals than any host nation in Winter Olympic history.

Norway Skater Blame Excessive Porn-Watching for Silver Medal (379 diggs) The Olympics don't offer medals for frank observations. Which is too bad, really, because Norwegian skiier and would-be Bond character Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset (second from left) would have earned himself a permanent gold with his recent Tiger Woods-inspired quotes following his performance in the men's 4x10 relay.

A Collection of Olympic Torches (Interactive Graphic) (583 diggs) A collection of Olympic torches from 1936 to today.

Figure Skater Johnny Weir: "Indeed I Am A Man" (Video) (347 diggs) After broadcasters questioned his gender, Weir held a press conference to confirm his manhood.

Kim Yu-na of S. Korea Takes Gold in Women's Figure Skating (279 diggs) It was awesome to see Kim Yu-na perform so well under all that pressure, to win her country’s first figure skating gold medal, that was cool to watch.

Demong's day: Gold medal, engagement, flag honor (211 diggs) To hear Billy Demong tell it, becoming the first American to win a Nordic combined event at a Winter Olympics wasn't even the best thing that happened to him that day.

Ohno earns bronze in relay, DQ'd in 500 final (266 diggs) Apolo Anton Ohno anchored the United States to a bronze-medal finish in the 5,000-meter short track speedskating relay, earning his eighth career Olympic medal. Earlier Friday, the American was disqualified in the 500 final, apparently for causing a crash in the final turn.

Olympic Skiiers Like D*ck Jokes (269 diggs) While Lars Berger might be an accomplished cross-country skier, a former World Champion and more recently a silver medalist at this years Winter Olympics, he isn’t immune to some childish behavior.

Snow Angels -- 10 Winter Olympics Hotties (PICS) (344 diggs) When we last checked in with Winter Olympic downhill favorite Lindsey Vonn, she expressed ambivalence toward her burgeoning status as a sex symbol.

IOC to investigate women's hockey team for celebration (244 diggs) The women's Canadian hockey team decided to celebrate their win over the U.S. by boozing it up on the ice and smoking cigars. We love our hockey!