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Thanks we are having a great Olympic Games.
Looking good so far. Russia out in both man and women hockey, quite shocking.
Women speedskating 5000 metres SILVER-BRONZE
Which means 22 medals so far of which 21 in speedskating, with two more speedskating disciplines to go could bring our total at 24 medals.
Putin must be mighty upset, I really feel his pain. :!!
translation. The Russians couldn't find a way to rig the result. :P
looking at the semis! Sweden Finland I think is a toss up.
Canada USA will be a battle royale of NHL superstar stacked teams.
Anyone of these 4 teams could win gold.
I wouldn't be schocked if Finland won. They've got a lot of top NHL players and they play like a team. Tenacious as hell.
Mind you Canada does often find a way to win these best-on-best tournaments. And that's what they are ,with the NHL players allowed to play.
These last 5 Olympic tournaments follow the old Best-on-Best Canada Cup and World Cup showdowns and the two big Canada-Soviet head-to-head series from the '70s.
Canada has won 3 of the last 4 Best-on-Bests.
2002 Salt Lake City, 2004 World Cup and 2010 Vancouver
Sweden won 2006 Turin Gold.
Overall, in 13 previous Best-on-Bests.
Canada 8 titles
Soviet Union 2
USA 1
Czech Republic 1
Sweden 1
Finland 0
Slovakia 0
This is why I would love to see the NHL pull out of the Olympics and go back to staging their invite-only World Cup tourneys featuring only the world's legitimate hockey superpowers. ie the 7 listed above, even if SVK layed an egg in Sochi. They still have top players.
From a Canadian pov we put together this NHL superstar National team for Sochi and three of our first four games are against the national teams of Norway, Austria and Latvia. Yawn!!! Thank heaven for the Finland game at least.
But the semis are the real deal.
The two games tomorrow, and the Gold Medal game will be awesome- best hockey you will see anywhere on the planet!
Sweden vs Finland
Canada vs USA
It doesn't get anybetter. Apologies to Russia and Czech who didn't make the final four cut this time.
Go Canada!!!
Sydney Crosby celebrates his Golden Goal. Vancouver 2010!
Thats 4 straight women's gold Olympic medals for Canada now.
Yeah! Women! Canada needed that gold to jump in overall official medal standings too, as the IOC ranks by gold first, with silvers as tie-break. We've got lots of silvers, so that gold should shoot us up. We also won womens curling gold today too.
Woo Hoo! Canadian women "rock". (curling rock,joke heh heh)
Translation, the Russian did not really play a part even if they got one medal which is 100% more than the folks from the US got. :D But then they got sabotaged by their skating suits which were top of the line by the US standards.
Congrats to Canada.
Norway Netherlands, and the usual USA andRussia are very formidable. Germany too with that big haul of golds.
The ladies did come through today for Canada in Curling & Ice hockey.
Canada's Jennifer Jones rink has been dominant though, perfect through the round-robin. Unbeaten all the way to Gold.
Sweden - Canada in the final, and we'll do our best to stop you from defending the gold :D
Canada keeps playing teams that have been less talented, trying to beat them 1-0 with stifling checking games.
Even the Finns who have a decent amount of talent played this way and managed to force a 1-1 overtime game.
Canada is sleeping giant I think. Playing a top opponent like USA will finally allow the talent on both teams to shine forth.
And yes the Red Wings would be nothing without their core of Swedes.
Two of Swedens all time best were both big stars in Toronto. Hall of Famers Borje Salming and Matts Sundin ( Maple Leafs all-time leading scorer)
Blofeld would probably run more honest games than some of the Russian schemers. The warming of the Luge track; that was an all-time greatest dirty trick even by Russian standards.
Canada - USA will be very interesting, may the best North Americans win!
Bear with me, because I just want to applaud her in a bit more detail. (Also keep in mind that Mao made this final skate after being blasted publicly by Japan's Olympic committee chairman. Other people in the Japanese media, however, still encouraged her.)
Here is some of what the Washington Post wrote about her final skate:
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With nothing at stake but the performance itself, the 23-year-old Asada returned to the ice and staged a powerhouse of a free skate, nailing her opening triple Axel and thrilling the crowd with three more triples in the first 67 seconds. From one corner of the ice to the other, Asada displayed the range of her jumping prowess, delivering a full range of triples—a flip, a loop, a lutz, toe and a salchow—as well as triple flip, double loop, double loop combination late in the program.
And from USA Today Sports:
With a top three finish too far out of reach for any great come back, Asada’s skate on Thursday night became about something far greater than medal color or podium height — it was about redemption.
Skating to Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No. 2″, Asada gave the performance that was set in place to win her gold. And with a fearful flawlessness that left anyone watching absolutely breathless by its end, she floated through her twists, turns and even the jumps, including that triple axel she is as famous for landing as she is for not landing.
When the music stopped and she struck what was perhaps the final pose of her career, only seconds passed before Asada broke into heaving sobs amidst the cheers of an adoring crowd. Stress, release of doubt, heartbreak, joy, accomplishment, passion, only Asada knows what was behind the tears that seemed as much a celebration of accomplishment as they were tragic.
Asada will go home to Japan this week without the gold. But her performance was more than a series of moves meant to win an award. It was the showing of an athlete’s true character, it was the reason the Olympics unify the world and as commentator Johnny Weir proclaimed directly after, it was the reason we watch figure skating.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mao Asada - a credit to her sport, a very memorable figure skater, a fine role model, and a shining example of what it means to give your all no matter what the circumstances and to conduct yourself with integrity.
I looked for one photo to share, but instead I am posting a link of her entire final skate. It's from a Russian figure skating news site. So I have no idea what the commentators were saying, but they sounded really excited and appreciative. Hope you enjoy this one:
http://fsnews.ru/forums-m-posts-id-17406.html
So you can imagine the eruption of happiness when Sweden won. It was a epic moment!
I suspect that the country will stand up tomorrow night in the final too.
PIZ GLORIA 2022!!!
https://www.facebook.com/catchingbullets/photos/a.413377045359317.97372.407779922585696/727817963915222/?type=1&theater