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He now has a gold medal — as do his Canadian teammates — from a sport that doesn’t really exist in the big picture and wasn’t deemed to be Olympian for the first 100 years of figure skating at the Games.

Mikael Kingsbury. Morris and Lawes. Team figure skating.

Two of these things are not like the other.

I’m more impressed with the bronze medal of Alex Gough, who became the first Canadian to win a luge medal, than the golds of mixed doubles or team figure skating — an event that some countries took so seriously they left off their best skaters for it.

I’m more impressed with the medals won by Max Parrot and Mark McMorris — and the McMorris story remains beyond belief — in slopestyle than anything accomplished on the ice by team curlers and team figure skaters.

How can you not be impressed by the speed-skating medals, short track and long track, by Kim Boutin and Ted-Jan Bloemen — pursuits that are achieved by a lifetime of work and practise and dedication and heartache?

And the comeback of Laurie Blouin, hospitalized one day, in dangerous conditions the next, on the podium in women’s slopestyle the next, with a cut and a welt below her left eye.

All of those medals, to me, are more meaningful than those of two curlers who barely knew each other taking on the world, and a group of figure skaters — most of whom are contenders when it matters — bringing home gold.

Canada is off to a wonderful start, with some disappointments in the early days here in Pyeongchang. We didn’t win a gold medal in Calgary in 1988, won two in Albertville in 1992 and won three in Lillehammer in 1994.

Our history: Bring in new sports, we tend to succeed, no matter what you might think of the new sports. Canada has three gold medals already; there will be more.

But don’t equate the three golds earned to date as equals. For now, Mikael Kingsbury stands alone as champion of the world and the Games. There is room for others to join.

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(NOTE:This is an updated version. The previous version included inaccuracies.)