Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on the Inside Vancouver blog, as part of special coverage of the 2010 Winter Games.

Fans celebrate Team Canada's first goal inside LiveCity Downtown's beer tent.

You couldn’t have asked for a more fitting finale to the Vancouver 2010 Games – Canada vs. U.S.A. in a gold medal hockey game on Canadian soil.

I took in the action today at LiveCity Downtown, perhaps the best place in the city to see the game outside of Canada Hockey Place. As I made my way across town and toward the gates, a swirling roar of cheering was rolling round and round the city. Something special was in the air. [Read more...]