Brothers Win Second Straight Gold
Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger took gold the second time in men’s doubles luge today. A second set of brothers, Andris and Jurcis Sics from Latvia won silver with a time only .2 seconds slower. Bronze went to Patric Leitner and Alexander Resch of Germany.
Linger and Linger are only the second doubles team in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Luge track shortened
The Vancouver Olympic luge track has been shortened after yesterday’s tragic death of Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili, in spite of officials’ statements blaming the accident on the athlete. Anyone who saw the video would have to question that statement. Clearly, if the wall that now exists had been there yesterday, certainly Kumaritashvili [...]
Luge Tragedy
Georgian Olympic luger Nodar Kumaritashvili lost control of his sled during training today, Feb. 12th. The 21yr-old’s sled hit the wall on a particularly difficult turn, throwing him off the track and into an unpadded steel pole. Kumaritashvili was pronounced dead shortly after at the hospital.
Vancouver’s luge track is one of the fastest in the [...]
List of Sports at the 2010 Olympics
Just a quick list of the sports to be contested at the Vancouver Olympics: Biathlon, Bobsled (or bobsleigh to those nutty Canadians), Curling, Figure Skating, Hockey, Luge, Short-Track Speed Skating,
Skeleton, Alpine Skiing, Freestyle Skiing, Ski Jumping, Cross-country Ski Racing, Nordic Combined, Snowboard, and Speed Skating. Each of those sports have multiple events that [...]
