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Phil Hossack/Winnipeg Free Press

Welcome as good as gold

WINNIPEG — There was no pitcher of beer and no auctioneer voice, but it was still a triumphant victory march in a style only Jon Montgomery could muster.

On Friday afternoon, 200 fans thronged the Winnipeg airport to give an Olympic-sized welcome to the homegrown hero. They welcomed Montgomery home to Manitoba for the first time since he won the skeleton gold at the Winter Olympic Games and celebrated afterwards by chugging beer almost three weeks ago.

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