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Didsbury’s RCMP Const. Shane Williams kept his cool during his stint at the Olympic games.

He didn’t ask Canada’s curling gold medallist, Kevin Martin, for an autograph or snap photos of NHL stars Sidney Crosby and Martin Brodeur as they walked by.

Not even Canadian Olympic figure skater Joannie Rochette could crack his calm.

But when he watched Canada’s hockey team score for a win on the last day of the games, he roared with the rest of Canada.

"I was able to catch the gold medal men’s hockey game on one of the TVs in the work tent during a couple of my breaks," Williams said.

"It was funny but the TV had some delays but because we were so close to where the hockey was being played we could hear people screaming before I watched the goal going in … I knew it was coming and I just freaked out."

Williams and Const. Kent Shaw were posted to the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver and only returned from the job last week.

It is an experience not soon forgotten, they said.

Williams was posted at the athlete’s village in downtown Vancouver late January, to search vehicles picking up athletes for the events and driving them back.

"I was the guy with the mirror, checking to see if anything was taped beneath the car," he said. "I never found anything."

The athlete’s village was quiet – free of Olympic protests found in other areas of Vancouver, he said.

"It was a place athletes could just be at ease and be themselves before a game," he said.

He saw several athletes – including Kevin Martin, Joannie Rochette and one of the Sedin brothers, who was playing for Sweden – walk around the village, a series of condos on Vancouver’s waterfront.

He couldn’t go up to any of the athletes, though they were free to come up to him and say hi, and some athletes did, he said.

Shaw, who screened vehicles on Cypress Mountain throughout February, saw little action on the hill where Canada won its first gold medal.

"From where I was I could only see the top part of the aerials and moguls," he said. "I got to see the part where they were in the air, but that was about it."

Shaw spent his days off braving crowds of cheering Canadians to tour the venues downtown, but by far, his favourite part of being a part of the games was seeing the scenery.

"It is just beautiful out there," he said.