Canada claimed its first medal of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games when freestyle skier Jennifer Heil picked up a silver in the women's moguls final at Cypress Mountain.
Heil had won gold in the same event at the 2006 Turin Games in Turin and hoped to make history by winning Canada's first Olympic gold medal at home. In heavy rain, the Alberta woman charged down the soppy mogul field, nailed both her jumps and went over the finish line to take over first place, but American Hannah Kearney won the battle of the clock with a time of 27.86 seconds. Heil finished four-hundredths of a second back at 27.90 seconds.
