Ladies’ Super-G
Gold: Andrea Fischbacher (AUT)
Silver: Tina Maze (SLO)
Bronze: Lindsey Vonn (USA)
Ski jumping:
Gold - Simon Ammann (Switzerland)
Silver - Adam Malysz (Poland)
Bronze - Gregor Schlierenzauer (Austria)
Same as normal hill results. Awesome performance by Ammann, just jumping in a different league than all the other jumpers. He becomes the most decorated Swiss Olympian, and sets the record for most gold medals in Olympic ski jumping. Malysz was ecstatic with his silver. Austrians must be a bit disappointed to only get two bronzes from the two individual ski jumping events, after being heavy favorites going in.
I was really pulling for Hautamaeki, after Ahonen fell out of the running, but Matti completely flubbed his second jump.
why am i hearing dialoge from monty python? “look at those teeth??!!”
I’ve been watching quite a bit but never saw this or even heard mention of it. Sorry I missed it.
Hockey – USA vs Canada
First blood! 
Speed Skating - Men’s 10k
[spoiler]1: Sung-Hoon Lee (KOR) (12:59 - OR)
2: Ivan Skobrev (RUS) (13:04)
3: Bob de Jong (NL) (13:06)
Of course, the real story here is that top favorite Sven Kramer (NL), who hadn’t lost a 10K since November 2006, and who was going to win here too, finishing at 12:54, was disqualified after his coach directed him back into the inner lane while he was supposed to change into the outer lane. Of course, Kramer is still young, and he has the gold for the 5K and possibly might win the team pursuit with the Dutch team, but this is just such an incredibly crappy way of losing a race. I mean, if you fall, that’s your own fault, and if you just suck then you just suck, and that’s that, but this… I hope more than ever now that they’ll win the team pursuit at least… :([/spoiler]
Speed Skating - Women’s 5k
[spoiler]
1: Martina Sablikova - Czech Republic
2: Stephanie Beckert - Germany
3: Clara Hughes - Canada
Congratulations to Sablikova, who also won gold in the 3k. But the real story here for me is Clara Hughes.
1996 - Atlanta Summer Games
Cycling Road Race - Bronze Medal
Cycling Individual Time Trial - Bronze Medal
2002 - Salt Lake City Winter Games
Long Track Speed Skating 5km - Bronze Medal
2006 - Torino Winter Games
Long Track Speed Skating 5km - Gold Medal
Long Track Speed Skating Team Pursuit - Silver Medal
2010 - Vancouver Winter Games
Long Track Speed Skating 5km - Bronze Medal
She’ll also be competing in Team Pursuit, and the Canadians are amongst the favourites in that event.
So, okay, it’s not a lot of gold, but that’s a pretty impressive Olympic resume. She’s the only athlete ever to win multiple medals in both summer and winter games.[/spoiler]
Very impressive. I hadn’t known that.
I know that the speed skating-cycling combination has been done by others, in and out of the Olympics. I thought the usual progression, though, was speed skating first, then move into cycling to cross-train (work those leg muscles!), discover you’re really good at it, and boom. She seems to have done it the opposite way.
WOOHOO!!! It’s Canada’s day today!
[spoiler]Another medal for Clara Hughes in the long track 5000m, a Canadian legend.
Silver in short track 3000m relay, upgraded after a disqualification of the Korean team.
GOLD for Humphries and Moyse, Silver for Upperton and Brown for a spectacular 1-2 finish for Canada! Incredible that Humphries/Moyse won by almost a full second over the four runs. Tough crash for the German team that was a medal contender, it was kinda scary to watch the passenger get ejected like that :o
And of course, to top it off, the 7-3 dominant performance of Canada over Russia in Men’s Hockey that allowed the country to breathe a collective sigh of relief THAT was team Canada![/spoiler]
Awesome day for Canada:
[spoiler]The aforementioned bronze for Clara Hughes.
Silver medal in women’s 3000m short track relay for Jessica Gregg, Kalyna Roberge, Marianne St-Gelais and Tania Vicent.
A double performance for the two-women bobsleigh teams: Canada 2 (Helen Upperton and Shelley Ann Brown) won silver, and Canada 1 (Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse) struck gold. First medals in women’s bobsleigh at the Olympics, and they take 1-2!
And to cap it off, Team Canada hammered Team Russia in a 7-3 quarterfinal win![/spoiler]
ETA: Damn you, Delayed Reflex! shakes fist
I’d guess that Clara Hughes’ thighs could crush my head like a grape…
Alas that is another test unlikely to be conducted.
you only wish your head was between Clara Hughes’ thighs.
Reading Clara Hughes’ Wiki page, she seems to have started out as a speed skater, but switched to competitive cycling in 1990, when she was eighteen. She came back to it ten years later.
I think that Canada now has the most gold medals in the games…Hopefully there are at least 4 more coming.
well as of this moment, it’s 8 gold for Canada tied with US and Germany. Hopefully more are coming. But all us Canadians would trade all that for Olympic Gold in men’s Ice Hockey.
I see now where I made my error. CNN/SI, using some sort of crystal ball I assume, has gone ahead and already awarded Canada the gold for men’s hockey.
It kinda sucks knowing the future but I’ll still watch the next two games. 
Not this Canadian.
EDIT: I still hope we win. But I wouldn’t trade all the rest of our gold for it.
I agree. I would never want to do anything to diminish the hard work that all Canadian athletes have put in to both compete and medal in these games.
Still, I want the men’s team to kick some ass for the next 2 games.
Winning the gold would be awesome and I’ll be screaming at my TV tonight and on Sunday but the men’s hockey team shouldn’t overshadow Joannie Rochette and Clara Hughes (among others).
It will, and always will, but I place more importance on those 2 bronzes than I would on a hockey gold.
My nomination for most moving Olympic moment of these games goes to Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette. Her mom died a few days ago. She went out on the ice, gave two great performances and won the bronze. Nice work, Ms. Rochette. What a great tribute to your mom!