Oh, and one more thing, I know a lot of us are tired of all the specials and clips and interviews, but the piece tonight on the snowboarding women was really nice. You can watch the video here.

And now the results…

Gretchen Bleiler went out of the competition after a pretty stunning fall on her second run. Good thing I learned from the announcer last night that it’s bad to land on top of the wall, or I would never have been able to figure out what happened tonight when she came down hard on top of the halfpipe wall, then came down hard all the way down the wall (that was sarcasm, by the way, folks).

But, in case I forgot that valuable lesson, I got to hear it again tonight when Elena Hight fell. Hear that halfpipers— it’s BAD to land on top of the wall.

Kelly Clark’s singing cracks me up. She had a decent run, but not a stellar one. It was still enough for a bronze medal. Defending champ Hannah Teter was unable to overcome Australian Torah Bright’s terrific run to take the gold but must surely have been pleased to walk away with the silver.

Just as an aside, Liu Jiayu of China finished fourth.  It’s interesting to see how the Chinese have embraced snowboarding.  Everyone was talking about how they have really made a push to train some superior snowboarders, but that somehow it violated the spirit of the sport.  Rigorous training for a sport that began out of freewheeling exhuberance and devil-may-care attitude is a little out of place. What do you think?

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— More halfpipe today. It’s the women’s turn. Will the American women exceed the American men’s medal count from last night?

Hockey— The men and the women compete today. The men take on Norway. The women take on Finland.

Speed skating— The women take on the 1000m. Don’t expect the same medal count for the American women as the American men.

Skeleton— Competition starts today for the men and women. Americans stand a much better chance at medaling here than in the luge.

Curling— both the men and women take on Denmark today. You can catch this live if you have CNBC. No, really, live coverage of an event.

That’s it. Check back throughout the afternoon and evening for coverage of events.

Okay, other than the inane announcing, halfpipe tonight was great. Who doesn’t love Shaun White??

I don’t have the video of tonight, but here’s a video of him practicing the Double McTwist 1260:

White locked in the gold on his first run, so the second was just for the crowd, and he delivered.  Tempted though he was to just do a straight run, he gave the crowd what they wanted with a daring double McTwist at the end of the run.

American Scotty Lago won the bronze and Findland’s Peetu Piiroinen kept an all-American podium at bay by taking silver.

First up, after days of delays, women’s downhill will finally get to race. Who should you be looking for? Well, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know to look for American Lindsey Vonn. The U.S. women have never won an Olympic gold medal in downhill, but Vonn is expected to change that. Vonn may be joined on the podium by any one of her teammates: Julia Mancuso, Stacey Cook, or Alice McKennis.

Snowboarding halfpipe is today, if the halfpipe doesn’t melt in the 40+ degree temperatures. For the U.S., this should be a medal treasure trove, since six out of nine Olympic medals awarded in men’s halfpipe have gone to Americans. That’s not expected to change this year, as reigning Olympic champion Shaun White competes. You should also keep an eye out for Dancing with the Stars alum Louie Vito, an newcomer to the Olympics. The other talented rookies are Scotty Lago and Greg Bretz.

Women’s 500m short track has a medal round today. Additionally, there will be heats in the men’s 1000m, and the semifinals of the men’s 5000m relay. Even though the U.S. hasn’t won a medal in this event since 1994, that could change this year as three-time national champion Katherine Reutter has an outside shot at a medal. Fellow American competitor Alyson Dudek is not expected to medal in the event.

Speed skating will award a medal for the 1000m today, hopefully to American Shani Davis who won this event in Torino and is favored to win gold in Vancouver. The race will also include Americans Chad Hedrick, Trevor Marsicano and Nick Pearson.

Medals will be awarded in men’s doubles luge today. Americans Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin, who have appeared in four Olympics are the best shot for a medal, having already won Olympic silver and bronze. They’ll be joined by teammates Dan Joye and Christian Niccum.

Both men’s and women’s curling compete today— the women take on German; the men take on Switzerland.

And last but not least, cross-country skiing will race the men’s and women’s 1.5km individual sprint. This is a relatively new event to the Olympics, having made it’s debut in 2002. Like most cross-country type events, this is not an American strength. There is some hope that American female Kikkan Randall might finish in the top 15. American male Andy Newell stands a slightly better, though still outside, chance of ending up on the podium.

Now you may all join me until trying to avoid the results until tonight, although I already glimpsed partial results for the women’s downhill. I hope you ever better luck.