Open Olympic Thread Day 7: A Medal A Day.....
by missy on Feb 18, 2010 12:12 PM PST
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.... may keep the critics away, but not for long.
Marianne St.-Gelais won a silver medal for Canada in the women's short track 500m speed skating last night, which brings us to a total of 6 medals (2 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze) in 6 days. Although many other Canadian athletes had their chances yesterday, Marianne was the only one of them to earn a place on a podium.
Today is another extremely busy day, with a lot more hockey, curling, quite a few medal events, as well as the first appearance of skeleton. Schedule after the jump, visit vancouver2010.com and ctvolympics.ca for canadian coverage of events.
9:00 Men's Curling Round Robin Session 4: Denmark vs USA, Germany vs Norway, Canada vs Sweden (RSN), Great Britain vs Switzerland
9:30 Alpine Skiing Ladies' Super Combined Downhill (CTV)
10:20 Biathlon Women's Individual 15km (Medal Event) (TSN)
12:00 Men's Hockey USA vs Norway (RSN)
12:30 Alpine Skiing Ladies' Super Combined Slalom (Medal Event) (TSN)
12:30 Snowboard Ladies' Halfpipe (Qualification) (TSN is scheduled to pop in for a half hour)
13:00 Speed Skating Ladies' 1000m (Medal Event) (CTV)
13:20 Biathlon Men's Individual 20km (Medal Event)
14:00 Women's Curling Round Robin Session 4: Canada vs Germany (TSN), China vs Japan, Great Britain vs Russia, Denmark vs USA
14:30 Women's Hockey USA vs Finland (RSN)
16:00 Snowboard Ladies' Halfpipe (Semifinals)
16:00 Women's Skeleton Heat 1
16:30 Men's Hockey Canada vs Switzerland (CTV) (Sean will have a separate thread up for this at gametime)
17:00 Figure Skating Men's Free Skate (Medal Event) (TSN)
17:10 Women's Skeleton Heat 2
18:00 Snowboard Ladies' Halfpipe (Finals) (Medal Event) (RSN)
18:30 Men's Skeleton Heat 1
19:00 Men's Curling Round Robin Session 5: Sweden vs China, Great Britain vs Denmark, Norway vs Switzerland, France vs Canada (RSN)
19:00 Women's Hockey China vs Russia
20:00 Men's Skeleton Heat 2
21:00 Men's Hockey Russia vs Slovakia (TSN)
Canadian Athletes to Watch For:
- Jon Montgomery won the inaugural World Cup skeleton race here last February, while Jeff Pain won silver for this event in 2006. They will be joined by Mike Douglas, and Canada could easily get 2 medals here. Michelle Kelly is joined on the women's side by Melissa Hollingsworth, who currently holds a world track record for skeleton.
- Shannon Rempel, Brittany Schussler, Christine Nesbitt and Kristina Groves will all represent Canada in the speed skating.
- Zina Kocher, Megan Tandy, Megan Imrie and Rosanna Crawford are all participating in the women's biathlon, while Jean-Phillipe Leguellec starts in a strong position for the men's biathlon.
-Sarah Conrad, Mercedes Nicoll and Palmer Taylor will be in the Ladies' Halfpipe, but the highest expectations for them is cracking the top 10.
Here's your thread. Bring on the comments. Sean will have the hockey gamethread up later.
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3 points! Team Martin up 5-1 after the end.
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Sweden is completely outclassed. The 2 blank ends, Canada was threatening to steal points. Sweden botched a shot in the first to give Martin an easy 2 points and couldn’t do much as they got their 3 in the fifth.
Double peel!
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by eightyseven on Feb 18, 2010 10:37 AM PST up reply actions
Do any of the canadian snowboarders have a chance at breaking up the usa sweep? if they do which ones?
canadian zina kocher is just starting for the biathlon
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Tandy finished in 50th, Imrie in 62nd, Kocher in 72nd and Crawford in 76th (out of 87)
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Tandy is like 19 or 20 or something though. World Junior champion last year I believe. She should be good for Sochii. (sp?)
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by Section 312 on Feb 18, 2010 11:54 AM PST up reply actions
I want Norway to get the win. Hopefully the goalie holds up like the he did in the 1st vs. us.
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by eightyseven on Feb 18, 2010 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
Ohay, It’s John Garrett. And some other dood.
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yeesh… no resistance heading to the net, it’s only chris drury for cryin out loud…
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 12:28 PM PST reply actions
Random photo of the day: Colbert prepares sandwich with speedskate
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by eightyseven on Feb 18, 2010 12:29 PM PST reply actions 4 recs
rec’d for Colbert awesomeness
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 12:30 PM PST up reply actions
new band from Vancouver
Bryan O’Ryan with the song “Crosby, Staals & Nash” http://tinyurl.com/ygy8z67
this is kinda funny…
“Great White North Boys Sure Kick Ass!”
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 12:36 PM PST reply actions
Shannon Rempel is skating soon (pair 6, just 2 races away). after that, Brittany Schusser is in pair 14, and Nesbitt and Groves are in pairs 17 and 18 respectively (last 2 pairs)
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Hahah justin.tv feed!
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from norway... Runhild Gammelsæter
hot and metal
me likey
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 1:21 PM PST reply actions
Dude, Runjild and Thorr’s Hammer is some slow, dark and dreary shit, I gotta say. Just checked her out on YouTube
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 18, 2010 3:56 PM PST up reply actions
not really, we have 3 skaters later on, two of which are in the last 2 pairs (groves and nesbitt)
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Norwegians looking a lot better than they did against Canada… then again maybe the opposition isn’t as good :)
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 1:25 PM PST reply actions
Hahah helps that US D looks all over the place.
I hope the goalie keeps it up. I’m now a fan of his.
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Anyone else hear that he’s actually a carpenter by profession?
Knights, Canucks, Dolphins, Jays and Raptors all the way.
That
was the kicker.
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men’s biathlon just starting, Leguellec is starting 3rd and got 6th(?) in the shorter one, so he’s a canadian medal hope.
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he just set the best time out of the first round of shooting. he shot perfectly.
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he’s got the lead after the 2nd round of shooting. he had lost it for a bit, but then people started getting less accurate.
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nice
would be good to see an unexpected medal today
anyone have an update on the women’s 1000m speedskating?
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 1:40 PM PST up reply actions
oh god
this could take hours
lol
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 1:43 PM PST up reply actions
not anymore, they brought in zambonis from calgary.
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Out of our pockets of course.
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Vonnderful news
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 1:52 PM PST up reply actions
I’m not necessarily a fan of hers at all, but crashing isn’t really good news, is it?
Knights, Canucks, Dolphins, Jays and Raptors all the way.
I hope she wasn’t hurt, but I just found the whole media blitz of her ‘courage’ coming back from a bruised shin nauseating
celebrating the karma, that’s all…
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 1:55 PM PST up reply actions
So you wanted her to crash because of the media coverage of her? Something she has zero control over? That seems a bit mean spirited. But then I want them all to crash cause it’s fun to watch, so what do I know?
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"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
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by Section 312 on Feb 18, 2010 2:15 PM PST up reply actions
assuming she has zero control of it might not be the correct thing… she certainly played her part in the press conferences
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 2:18 PM PST up reply actions
That’s a good point.
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"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
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by Section 312 on Feb 18, 2010 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
Interesting stat about China, 20 million people there watched the Canada/Norway game. That is how the game will start to grow, plant the seed. Let’s hope they don’t take to it like the Russians did lol
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 1:58 PM PST reply actions
USA slowly getting pucks in net.
Still sloppier than I thought they would be by now though.
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not nearly as convincing as the score indicates…
miller doesn’t make 1 of those big saves earlier this game is totally different
kes was a beast today… which is a very awkward feeling heading into sunday
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
here comes groves! can we double up with gold and silver?
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what an amazing skate by Nesbitt
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by canucklehead666 on Feb 18, 2010 2:29 PM PST reply actions
btw, mercedes nicoll and sarah conrad both made it to the semifinals for the ladies’ halfpipe. that’s starting at 4:00
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how unfortunate, the japanese skater’s skate lace fell apart, automatic 2-point deduction and 3-minute time limit for fixing it.
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patrick chan is off the podium. 4th place with 2 skaters left.
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Russia-Slovakia going on now.
I can imagine the Slovaks having much of a chance, especially considering they played last night.
Poutine & Meatballs
Someone wanna explain to me why Semin’s ‘can opener’ move on Chara didn’t get called?
The ref was 5 feet away.
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But McCreary will call that hook on Branko though
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 18, 2010 10:59 PM PST up reply actions
just finished making the thread for tomorrow.
interesting hockey game. slovakia is doing surprisingly well.
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Radulov has gotta be the biggest bitch in this game. He goes down like a sack of potatoes every time he gets touched.
Now even if Russia wins they’ll be tied with Canada. Just need a Sweden loss or a Sweden OT win so Canada becomes number 1.
It’s different in a game like that. More wide open..kinda. Plus he gets a shitload of icetime for Slovakia
by Sean Zandberg on Feb 19, 2010 12:50 AM PST up reply actions
So uh, Russia FTL?
I really hope Demo keeps playing like this after Olympics…aside from staying of course.
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So uh, called the thread after today’s pleaseandthankyou.
If nobody else has already called it.
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