2010 Gold Medal Canadian Hockey Mens Celebration on the Streets Part 5

Street level view of the crowds reaction to the Canadian Men's Gold Medal win for Hockey at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. It seems hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the street to celebrate the gold medal win of the Canadian Mens Hockey Team over the Americans.

It is a jubilant crowd, everyone in a great mood with Oh' Canada breaking out everywhere. The police seem to have little more to do that pose for photos with people.

This really was the perfect end to a great 2010 Winter Olympics. Vancouver and the world had an amazing time with great weather (for the most part). This Olympics had several historical moments and this gathering crowd will be one of those for Vancouver. Never before have so many people flooded the streets of Granville and Robson, and everywhere else downtown. The only thing more amazing that the size of the crowd was the overwhelmingly happy mood and Canadian patriotism. Police seemed to have nothing more to do but pose for pictures with people and play street hockey, no one was causing trouble everyone was jubilant. It was an amazing moment for the history books of Canada and Vancouver.

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[mossman8787]

A couple blocks down the road toward Granville things were a little more rambunctious lol. Nothing over the top but less people looking like they are just walking around aimlessly lol

[EnglishBaycom]

Got that in one of the earlier clips. We were walking up Granville street and than people started saying that police were stopping people from going any further it was just a wall of people. Thats when we went back and around up to the Robson & Granville intersection.

[gairero]

congratulations. I was expecting more enthusiasm from the crowd. in latinamerica we would be climbing trees and jumping like crazy.

[EnglishBaycom]

For us this is a ton of enthusiasm and patriotism. You latin people have always had the great passion for expressions like this. We are learning. It was awesome to be out in that and I would have loved to have it go further and still be positive. The cops did get people down from the tops of bus stops and things like that....... Climbing the trees would be more than the cops would want to see sadly.

[gairero]

I wanted canada to win and it was an exiting game ( my second full hockey game, first was Canada - Russia some days ago) I watched more videos after this one and I saw some crazy people but then I found the riots in montreal in 1993 and that was plain madness! I saw a guy setting a police car on fire! only then I understood how serious you people take hockey up there in Canada. again, congrats for the gold and the whole olimpics.

[EnglishBaycom]

Ya, violence would have completely destroyed this moment. It was amazing because absolutely everyone was in a jubelent patriotic mood and we celebrated a hundred thousand strong. It was magnificent!

[insertclevernickname]

This is BC, we were all baked. BTW I was actually in the crowd on Robson when they won. Still pissed at the world there was a gold medal hockey game in MY city where Canada won, in such an impressive and thrilling (as in shitting bricks tense) game I couldnt afford to go to.

[jeinsberry]

Even you say so yourself, that is Latin America. Canada is unique, its just the way we are.