Women’s speedskating and aerials results
The women skated the 5000m tonight. The Czech Republic’s Martina Sablikova took her second gold, followed by Germany’s Stephanie Beckert and Canada’s 37 year old Clara Hughes (who carried the Canadian flag at the Opening Ceremonies).
Women’s aerials also awarded medals tonight. The Chinese are coming on strong as aerialists, coming in second [...]
Rookie mistake stuns speed skating crowd
By all accounts, Sven Kramer of the Netherlands should have won the gold in today’s 10,000m speed skating event. Distracted, his coach, Gerard Kemkers, directed him to the wrong lane and inadvertently disqualified him. Speed skaters race in pairs and switch lanes in the backstretch to make sure the distances are even. Kramer says he thought [...]
Olympic events 2/23
Plenty of events to choose from today. What will I be watching?
Men’s Giant Slalom, even though I already know something that I didn’t want to know. Ugh. It’s really difficult to avoid spoilers. Anyway, men’s giant slalom provides another golden opportunity for Ted Ligety and Bode Miller.
Ladies figure skating short program. [...]
Women’s 1500m speed skating
The women’s 1500m had lots of hopefuls until the final, grueling lap. I love having the line that shows you where the best time is in comparison to the skaters. You could really see how most of the competitors started strong, but just ran out of gas in the last lap. Ireen Wust of the [...]
What are you watching today?
There are six medals being awarded today. Which contests will you be watching?
In alpine skiing, you can watch Men’s Super Combined, which combines one downhill run with one slalom run. American Ted Ligety is the defending Olympic champion, but look for Americans Bode Miller and Andrew Weibrecht to give him a run for [...]
Shani Davis repeats Torino performance
Shani Davis followed up his gold in the 1000m with a silver in the 1500m, echoing his performance in Torino. Mark Tuitert, of The Netherlands, was a surprise as the gold medal winner. Norway’s Havard Bokko won the bronze.
Chad Hedrick, who had hoped to challenge Shani for the gold, ended up in 6th [...]
Women’s 1000m Speedskating results
Just a quick rundown of these results. I didn’t see this broadcast at all today. Maybe it was this afternoon? Or maybe it’s because America’s best hope for a gold, Jennifer Rodriguez, finished seventh.
The gold went to Canadian Christine Nesbitt. For a country that had never won gold on home soil [...]
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— [...]
Shani Davis claims back to back gold medals in 1000m
I used to think speedskating was more exciting. I don’t know what happened. Oh, yeah, I do. Short track. Now regular speedskating just seems like short track’s old maid aunt. The good news is that Americans tend to do really well.
Shani Davis is really an interesting bird, isn’t he? [...]
Today’s events 2/17
Did you miss me? My “real” job kept me busy this morning, so I’m just now getting around to posting what’s going on today. Fortunately, due to the wonders of tape delay (ha-ha), you won’t be able to see most of these events until ten tonight, anyway.
First up, after days of delays, women’s [...]
Summary of Olympic results 2/16
Women’s luge awarded medals today. Tatjana Huefner, of Germany, won gold. Austrian Nina Reithmayer won silver. Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger took the bronze.
American Erin Hamlin went into the Olympics a world champion, but finished in 16th. American Julia Clukey was 17th, and Megan Sweeney was 22nd.
In women’s 500m speed skating Korea’s Sang-Hwa [...]
Olympic Schedule 2/16
So, what’s on today’s schedule?
Today was supposed to be Super Combined in men’s downhill, but due to poor weather conditions (blowing now and low visibility), that event has been pushed to Friday. At this rate, Alpine skiing will finish up sometime in March or April.
Presumably, the snow won’t stop biathlon (it’s still on the [...]
Men’s 500m speed skating sees ice problems
There was an hour delay between the first group of skaters and the second in today’s 500m race. The ice resurfacing machines caused the ice to be so bumpy that coaches refused to let their racers compete until the ice was fixed.
After the first round, American Shani Davis withdrew to concentrate on Wednesday’s 1000m [...]
Olympic Schedule 2/15
Today’s schedule is another busy one.
Pairs figure skating finishes up today with the free skate. No Americans are in serious contention, so the sentimental favorites are the Chinese pair of Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao. The three time World Champions and real life married couple came out of retirement to pursue Olympic gold. [...]
Medals 2/14
So, here are the medals we didn’t cover today:
Men’s single luge 4th run concluded with gold going to Germany’s Felix Loch, silver to David Moller, also German and bronze to Armin Zoeggeler of Italy. Times were still very good and the track was fast despite the efforts made to slow it down.
In Women’s 3000m speed skating [...]
Olympic schedule 2/14
Are you wondering what events to cuddle up and watch with your special someone today?
Here are my favorites for the day— figure skating pairs short program and men’s moguls.
In pairs figure skating, Americans face an uphill battle. The last figure skating pairs medal was a bronze in 1988, and the U.S. has never won [...]
Americans shut out in 5000m speed skating
Defending his gold from Torino, Chad Hedrick finished 11th, and Shani Davis finished 12th in today’s first speed skating medal competition. Sven Kramer of The Netherlands took first; Seung-Hoon Lee of Korea took the silver; and Ivan Skobrev won bronze. Hopefully, Hedrick and Davis will do better in upcoming races.
Davis to Compete in 5 Events
Based on his comments earlier this month, it was assumed Shani Davis would skip the 10,000m individual and compete in team pursuit in 2010. However, he missed the Dec. 24th cutoff date and instead is entered in all 5 individual events, something not attempted by an American since Eric Heiden in 1980. You can’t help [...]
