ROSA KHUTOR, LONDON (Reuters) - Jan Hudec had just won Canada's first Olympic Alpine skiing medal for 20 years but his first priority was making sure some one dug up his lucky loonie.
It is a tradition in Canada's ski team to bury a dollar coin, known as a loonie, on the finish line for good luck so after claiming a bronze medal in the super-G it was no wonder the injury-plagued 32-year-old wanted it back.
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