100 Gold Medals for Norway
Tora Berger earned Norway’s 100th gold medal in the Winter Olympics by finishing first in the women’s 15km individual biathlon. Though silver medalist, Elena Khrustaleva of Kazakhstan, hit all the targets and Berger missed one, Berger made up the penalty time won by 20.7 seconds. That’s a pretty good margin by biathlon standards. Bronze medalist [...]
Today’s events 2/18
This is going to be a very brief rundown of today’s events:
Women’s Super Combined— potentially more medals for Julia Mancuso and Lindsey Vonn.
Biathlon— Could there be a medal for American Tim Burke? Will Norway be happier with their results today?
Men’s Figure Skating—Who’s getting the gold? Evan Lysacek, Evgeni Plushenko, or someone else entirely?
Snowboarding— [...]
Spillaine Gets Silver in Nordic Combined!
Johnny Spillaine sprinted to silver and got the US’s first medal in Nordic Combined. Though teammate Todd Lodwick led the pack for much of the cross country race, having made up over a minute after the ski jump portion, he bobbled around one of the final curves and appeared to injure himself or break concentration just [...]
