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| Russia beat Canada for world gold Russia have won the ice hockey World Championship, dethroning the hosts Canada 5-4 in a dramatic final. With the game tied 4-4 after three periods, Ilya Kovalchuk scored the winner in the overtime to end Russia's 15-year gold medal drought. The loss denied Canada their bid to become the first host nation to capture the title since the Soviet Union's victory in Moscow in 1986. [...] "We have a great team with great players and we believed in each other," Russian defender Andrei Markov was quoted as saying by AFP. It is Russia's first world title since 1993. "It sucks but you know it was a great hockey game," Canada's Ryan Getzlaf said after the final. |