How many golden Canadian Olympians?

Seventy gold medals have been awarded to Canadians in Canada since 1993.

And you thought it was just 14 and the gold parade began only at Vancouver 2010!

Here is the full roster of all Canadians who have received a gold medal in the home and native land, in order of appearance.

Synchronized swimming
Sylvie Frechette, Dec. 15, 1993, Montreal Forum presented by Dick Pound. (Second gold medal awarded after judging error at Barcelona 1992).

Cross-country skiing
Beckie Scott, June 25, 2004, Vancouver Art Gallery presented by Charmaine Crooks. (Salt Lake 2002 gold and silver medallists disqualified for doping infractions).

Freestyle skiing moguls
Alexandre Bilodeau, Feb. 14, 2010

Snowboardcross
Maelle Ricker, Feb. 16, 2010

Speedskating 1,000 m
Christine Nesbitt, Feb. 18, 2010

Skeleton
Jon Montgomery, Feb. 19, 2010

Figure skating
mixed dance, Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue, Feb. 22, 2010

Skicross
Ashleigh McIvor, Feb. 23, 2010

Two-seat bobsled
Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse, Feb. 24, 2010

Women’s hockey
Meghan Agosta, Gillian Apps, Tessa Bonhomme, Jennifer Botterill, Becky Kellar, Jayna Hefford, Haley Irwin, Rebecca Johnston, Gina Kingsbury, Charline Labonte, Carla MacLeod, Meaghan Mikkelson, Caroline Ouellette, Cherie Piper, Marie-Philip Poulin, Colleen Sostorics, Kim St.-Pierre, Shannon Szabados, Sarah Vaillancourt, Catherine Ward, Hayley Wickenheiser.
Feb. 25, 2010

Short-track speedskating 500 m
Charles Hamelin, Feb. 26, 2010

Short-track speedskating 5,000 m relay
Guillaume Bastille, Charles Hamelin, Francois Hamelin, Olivier Jean, Francois-Louis Tremblay, Feb. 26, 2010

Parallel giant slalom snowboarding
Jasey-Jay Anderson, Feb. 27, 2010

Speedskating men’s team pursuit
Mathieu Giroux, Lucas Makowsky, Denny Morrison, Feb. 27, 2010

Men’s curling
Kevin Martin, Adam Enright, Ben Hebert, Marc Kennedy, John Morris, Feb. 27, 2010

Men’s hockey
Patrice Bergeron, Dan Boyle, Martin Brodeur, Sidney Crosby, Drew Doughty, Marc-André Fleury, Ryan Getzlaf, Dany Heatley, Jarome Iginla, Duncan Keith, Roberto Luongo, Patrick Marleau, Brenden Morrow, Rick Nash, Scott Niedermayer, Corey Perry, Christopher Pronger, Michael Richards, Brent Seabrook, Eric Staal, Joe Thornton, Jonathan Toews and Shea Weber, Feb. 28, 2010.

Not exactly Canadian Olympic history

I hate to pop your balloon and rain on your parade, but the presentation of the men's moguls gold medal to Canada's Alexandre Bilodeau at B.C. Place Stadium on Feb. 15 was not the first time a Canadian received a Winter Olympics gold medal in a ceremony in Canada.

On June 25, 2004, cross-country skier Beckie Scott was awarded a gold medal for the Salt Lake 2002 5-km pursuit. North Vancouver-based International Olympic Committee member Charmaine Crooks bestowed the medal on Albertan Scott in the midday ceremony at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Scott was the bronze medalist, but a doping scandal caused the Court of Arbitration for Sport to revoke medals from Russians Olga Danilova and Larissa Lazutina, who occupied the top two steps on the podium at Soldier Hollow in Utah. Scott was rightly upgraded.

Bilodeau was the first Canadian to win gold on snow-covered straw and soil at Cypress Mountain on Feb. 14, but Scott was the first Canadian to be awarded winter gold in Canada.