VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The medals at the Vancouver Olympics will feature aboriginal artwork and no two will be alike.
The gold, silver and bronze medals for the 2010 Winter Games were displayed by British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell at a news conference Thursday.
The circular medals will weigh 1.1 to 1.3 pounds — the heaviest in Olympic and Paralympic history. The medals are based on two large artworks of an orca whale and a raven by Canadian designer Corrine Hunt.
Ore for the metals came from mines in Canada, Alaska and Chile. The medals' undulating surfaces represent the sea and mountains of Canada's west coast.
"We needed to draw from our environment and all those things that make up this amazing place where we live," Hunt said.
SOCCER
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MILAN — AC Milan is hoping for compensation from the U.S. Soccer Federation because defender Oguchi Onyewu was injured in a World Cup qualifier against Costa Rica.
"I'm very angry because once again the national teams take players and we lose out due to injuries," AC Milan chief executive officer Adriano Galliani told Italian media Thursday.
Onyewu tore the patellar tendon in his left knee late in Wednesday night's 2-2 draw against Costa Rica in Washington. He signed a three-year contract with AC Milan in July.
USSF president Sunil Gulati declined comment on Galliani's remarks.
• A 1-0 loss to Chile Wednesday Ecuador's hope of qualifying for the World Cup and also marked the end of Sixto Vizuete's tenure as coach of Ecuador. Luis Chiriboga, the head of the Ecuador Football Federation, said Thursday that Vizuete's contract was to expire at the end of the World Cup, or once the team was eliminated in qualifying.
• In Cairo, Ghana will try to become the first African team to win the Under-20 World Cup when it plays Brazil in today's final. Ghana lost title games to Brazil in 1993 and Argentina in 2001. Brazil hopes to win the tournament for the fifth time and move within one title of Argentina's record six.
BASKETBALL
NBA launches video rulebook
NEW YORK — The NBA launched a video rulebook Thursday, a site where fans can watch clips of plays accompanied by explanations of the rules.
Stu Jackson, the league's executive vice president of basketball operations, said the rulebook, found at www.nba.com/videorulebook, would be "a place of reference for everyone with respect to how our games are officiated."
• Washington Wizards forward Antawn Jamison will miss the rest of the team's exhibition games with a right shoulder injury.
He had an MRI exam Thursday, a day after getting hurt while trying to block a shot by Zydrunas Ilgauskas in Washington's 109-104 preseason victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
• ESPN annunced that Bob Knight will serve as the analyst for the weekly "Big Monday" Big 12 game during the college basketball season. He will also call some nonconference games.
The Hall of Fame coach worked Thursday night games during his first full season with ESPN last year.
Texas Tech, Knight's former school currently coached by his son Pat, is not scheduled for a Big Monday game this season.
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