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Winning form

Date2/14/1984

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Boucher, Gaetan (subject)

Spremo, Boris (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Winning form: Gaetan Boucher won Canada's first gold medal of the '84 Winter Games yesterday in the 1,000-metre speedskating event. It was Canada's first Olympic gold since Kathy Kreiner's first-place finish in the giant slalom in the '76 Games. Boucher now has two medals, having won a bronze in the 500 metres, and hopes for a third in the 1,500 metres.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Winning form: Gaetan Boucher won Canada's first gold medal of the '84 Winter Games yesterday in the 1,000-metre speedskating event. It was Canada's first Olympic gold since Kathy Kreiner's first-place finish in the giant slalom in the '76 Games. Boucher now has two medals, having won a bronze in the 500 metres, and hopes for a third in the 1,500 metres.

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