Well, here we go. Post and watch! ** For the sake of viewers watching time delayed events, please note there may be spoilers herein unless you wait a day to view the thread.**
Medal events for Saturday, February 13 (Day 1) All Times Pacific
Hockey games:
12:00: Women, Sweden vs. Switzerland
17:00: Women, Canada vs. Slovakia
All alpine skiing events will almost certainly be cancelled, as BC is facing a deluge of rain today; the status of cross country and freestyle events is not yet determined.
High hopes for Heil going into this, but Kearney pulled off a superb run to finish things off and grab the gold. It looked like it was starting to rain by the time Kearney did her run. Jennifer looked rather disappointed at having to settle for silver, but I’m impressed at how well she handled the pressure - going in as the first Canadian who could win gold at home must have been incredibly stressful. Good job holding on after seeing a couple of the other top 5 women crash/mess up their landings.
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Thank you for this thread, if you plan on keeping it updated, as I don’t have time to watch the Olympics but I would like to know the winners of each event (and I appreciate the spoiler boxes)!
Maybe a Medal count would be nice every few days as well?
Current Medal Counts (as of 12 Noon EST Sunday 2/14):
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[li]United States - 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 2 Bronze[/li][li]Korea - 1 Gold, 1 Silver[/li][li]Netherlands - 1 Gold[/li][li]Slovakia - 1 Gold[/li][li]Switzerland - 1 Gold[/li][li]Canada - 1 Silver[/li][li]Germany - 1 Silver[/li][li]Poland - 1 Silver[/li][li]Austria - 1 Bronze[/li][li]France - 1 Bronze[/li][li]Russian Federation - 1 Bronze[/li][/ol]
Is there any way to do a table? I fussed with formatting this for a long time. Hard to make it neat.
More finals from yesterday:
Men’s 1500m Short Track Speed Skating:
Gold: Jung-Su Lee, Korea
Silver: Apolo Anton Ohno, United States
Bronze: J.R. Celski, United States
Men’s 5000m Speed Skating:
Gold: Sven Kramer, Netherlands
Silver: Seung-Hoon Lee, Korea
Bronze: Ivan Skobrev, Russian Federation
Women’s 7.5km Sprint Biathlon
Gold: Anastazia Kuzmina, Russian Federation
Silver: Magdalena Neuner, Germany
Bronze: Marie Dorin, France
The Alpine events scheduled for Saturday were indeed postponed due to weather on the mountain.
Did anyone catch this? There were three Koreans in the final, and they were going in 1-2-3 by a pretty good margin into the final turn, but one of the Koreans tried to make a move and ended crashing and up taking out his teammate (and almost took out the guy who eventually won gold as well!) - that has to be mentally devastating. A potential podium sweep swept away in a split second :eek:
it was amazing! i know the neighbours heard the shout and “whhhhaaa” i let out. it was unreal.
first it looks like ohno is gonna finish 4th, then “kapow” the 2 guys in front of him go down and zap into silver. just amazing.
it reminded me of one race (during another olympic race, they love showing it) where one guy went down and took out 3 other guys and ohno and a couple of others crawled-glided over the finish line. the top 3 in that race did not cross the finish line on their skates.
US wins its first ever medal in this event, Johnny Spillane taking silver, losing in the stretch to the Frenchman Jason Chappuis. Third place to the Italian Alessandro Pittin.
A VERY exciting race it was, too! Three Americans in the top-6, including one who came from 24th after the jump, a full 1.5 min. handicap at the start! :eek:
[spoiler]Fourth run of the Luge, and Americans held the number one position a couple of times. Then Canada’s Sam Edny’s time bested Tony Benshoof’s. But that’s OK. A Canadian should win a Gold in his own country. But it was not to be. Daniel Pfister (AUT), Andi Langenhan (GER), Albert Demtschenko (RUS), Armin Zöggeler (ITA), David Möller (GER), and Felix Loch (GER) turned in faster times.
Gold: Felix Loch (GER)
Silver: David Möller (GER)
Bronze: Armin Zöggeler (ITA)
Sam Edney finished seventh, followed by Tony Benshoof.[/spoiler]
The results were already pre-determined by the result of the first three runs. You do know that they run in reverse order for the final run, so that it is expected that you always will capture “first” place until the next sled comes down.
Going into the final run, the leaders had leads of 1s and .5s respectively over the third place sled. That’s like light years of distance for luge, where they measure in thousandths of a second for a good reason. :eek:
Alex Bilodeau becomes the first Canadian to win Gold in a Canada-hosted Olympics!
Amazing run, and a touching personal story to boot.
Dale Begg-Smith wins the Silver? Frankly, I wasn’t blown away by his run. I think Bryon Wilson should have taken Silver, and Vincent Marquis the Bronze.
Gold: Alex Bilodeau (CAN)
Silver: Dale Begg-Smith (AUS)
Bronze: Bryon Wilson (USA)
Dale Begg-Smith is Vancouver born. He left for Australia at the age of 15, after Canadian skiing officials told him he was spending too much time with his Internet business and not enough time training. His Internet business has subsequently made him very wealthy.
They’re definitely not over-using it. Might be pre-taped for use as an insert.