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Yes and we also won a silver medal in the Ski Jumping competition.
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And let's not even mention Hannu Manninen's ninth place in Nordic Combined. Was quite a big disappointment, but he didn't seem too disappointed himself, so I guess there's no reason for me to be either then. |
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Ireen Wust got the gold medal on the 3 km track! First gold for NL, Yay!
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She knocked Emily Hughes out of the third spot to the Olympics when she MUST have known her groin wasn't totally healed and, of course, she's now had to pull out of the competition. |
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The American team had an up and down Sunday. Some called the day Black Sunday because, Bode Miller didn't medal in Downhill, and Apollo Anton Ono didn't even make it into the finals. The much publicized confrontation between the Korean short track skaters and Ono didn't materialize. Korean skaters won Gold and Silver in men's 1,500 m short track. I was very disappointed that Ono missed out on the finals. It's a shame about Michelle Kwan. She had to pull out due to injury. It was heart breaking, as a fan, for me to see her doing the interview and trying to put forward a good face by saying that she has been blessed and accomplished a lot as a figure skater and not winning the Olympic Gold doesn't mean a whole lot, which probably wasn't even true as she was trying to choke back tear throuout the interview. Peggy Fleming said that we are not likely to see anyone matching Michelle's accomplishments as she doesn't see anyone coming close to winning nine US national titles like Michelle has done. I have been following figure skating a long time and I tend to agree with her. It's too bad she had to end her Olympics career without even getting a chance to skate. |
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I'm not liking all these drops from the Finnish men's hockey team.
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During the broadcast of the halfpipe event, the American broadcasters said that the reason Finland is so good in halfpipe is that the mountains in Finland are small and halfpipe developed fast as a result of that. I guess they were saying that you do not need the high mountains and large territory that you need for ski for halfpipe snowboarding. Are they right? I always thought that Finland is a rugged country with impressive mountains.
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We just beat USA in Curling, I'm happy.
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Figure skating fans you MUST watch the pairs skate tonight for one of those incredible Olympics moments. Zhang and Zhang are amazing (and I'm not talking about the quad throw).
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Agreed. Just watched them, completely by chance (missed all the previous pairs, though). Wow, I'm still shaken.
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I think I started to write something about Norweigan mountains.... By the way, my husband is starting to get upset with all your medals. |
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