Talk about “third time’s a charm.”

Check this out: On the third day of the third Olympics ever held in Canada, 33 years (and seven months) after the Olympic cauldron was first lit in the Great White North, Canada won its third medal of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

And this one was gold.

The big story at the 2010 Winter Olympics has been the question of whether Canada would be able to — for the first time — win a gold medal on Canadian soil. It didn’t happen when Canada first hosted the Summer Olympics in Montreal in 1976, and it didn’t happen when the Winter Olympics came to Calgary in 1988.

But with a blistering 23.17-second time and a 26.76 score from the judges in the men’s moguls, 22-year-old Quebec native Alexandre Bilodeau made it happen, and there was immediately no doubt about who’d be named Canadian of the Week.

Check out his gold-medal run here

Congrats to Alex and all of Canada!