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Did anyone else find it surprising that even after falling in his final run Shaun was fist pumping at the crowd like he won?.. Of course that was before his scores showed that not only would he NOT be getting the gold, but wouldn't even be standing on the podium.

I was really sad to see Davis fall at the end of his run but I can't fault the top 3 spots, they were definitely the best of the runs. I think it's good to see other countries taking the sport up. It's definitely come a long way in the past 12 years.

I was really surprised to hear that Shaun didn't place at all!

And gak, Men's Hockey is going on when I'm at work. Lame.

Not a full sweep today. Merely gold and bronze on the men's 1000m skating.
It's been, what, three events, and we've got 8 out of 9 medals?
Might as well have let the Dutch national championships decide the men's skating events .

I wonder what the medal standings would look like if you take a country's overall population into account?

Well, your country had 86 medals in the Winter Olympics before Sochi and 82 of them were in speed-skating. That tells me that you are really good at producing champions in that sport.

Of the other four medals, three were in women's figure skating and one was for women's snowboarding. I sense a trend having to do with ice and skates.

If someone ever wins with skis, the world will ask "what happened?".

Bran Dawri wrote:
Not a full sweep today. Merely gold and bronze on the men's 1000m skating.
It's been, what, three events, and we've got 8 out of 9 medals?
Might as well have let the Dutch national championships decide the men's skating events .

I wonder what the medal standings would look like if you take a country's overall population into account?

No kidding. The dutch speedskating is ridonkulous.

Bran Dawri wrote:
Not a full sweep today. Merely gold and bronze on the men's 1000m skating.
It's been, what, three events, and we've got 8 out of 9 medals?
Might as well have let the Dutch national championships decide the men's skating events .

I wonder what the medal standings would look like if you take a country's overall population into account?

While we may have nabbed the silver from you guys, Morrison's win is a pretty awesome feel-good story!

http://sports.ca.msn.com/winter-olympics/news/morrison-pens-perfect-ending-to-feel-good-story

Oh boy, USA moved up to second place in total medals!

 mega_bassist wrote:
Oh boy, USA moved up to second place in total medals!

What was won today?

 cincydooley wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
Oh boy, USA moved up to second place in total medals!

What was won today?

Women's skeleton: silver medal for Noelle PIKUS-PACE

http://www.sochi2014.com/en/skeleton-women-s-heat-4-04

 cincydooley wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
Oh boy, USA moved up to second place in total medals!

What was won today?

Silver in Woman's Skeleton. Now they're tied with Norway with 13 medals.

Edit - ninja'd!

Men's free skate is about to begin. I think Jason Browne has an outside shot at a Bronze.

It's really a shame the kid can't do a quad yet, because he destroys a lot of these dudes in overall crispness and showmanship.

But the Japanese dude in the lead is just nasty good. His jumps are so spot on its insane.

#mancardsurrendered

I watched the Japanses skater earlier, and just was totally surprised. Gotta love the surprise contenders.

I just wish I could watch the Games at work!

Henrik Zetterberg, Captain of Swedens Men's Hockey Team, left the Olympics today with a recurrence of his herniated disk. Could lead to some huge impacts for their chances.

 Minx wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
Oh boy, USA moved up to second place in total medals!

What was won today?

Women's skeleton: silver medal for Noelle PIKUS-PACE

http://www.sochi2014.com/en/skeleton-women-s-heat-4-04

Congrats are also due to Great Britain's Lizzy Yarnold. I followed her story on BBC earlier and was hoping that she would medal. That was the first gold medal of these games for GBR.

In America, we put champions' faces on our boxes of Wheaties breakfast cereal. What do you do in England?

Put them on containers of tea?

 djones520 wrote:
Henrik Zetterberg, Captain of Swedens Men's Hockey Team, left the Olympics today with a recurrence of his herniated disk. Could lead to some huge impacts for their chances.

Sweden has been decimated by key injuries.

But then how about Russia allowing 2 goals on 14 shots to what is likely the weakest team in the entire tournament?
Their next game vs. US could really show-up this team pretty badly, especially if the US can exploit that abysmal defense like we did in the quarters in Vancouver.

Knock on wood but I am just happy at this point that nothing bad has happened. Here's to that being unchanged.

 Frazzled wrote:
Knock on wood but I am just happy at this point that nothing bad has happened. Here's to that being unchanged.

I agree. I'm hoping that Germans win Luge, Dutch win Speed Skating, and Russians win Sochi Security. It's the main event.

 JB wrote:


http://www.sochi2014.com/en/skeleton-women-s-heat-4-04
Congrats are also due to Great Britain's Lizzy Yarnold. I followed her story on BBC earlier and was hoping that she would medal. That was the first gold medal of these games for GBR.

Yes she did a great job! One thing that didn't really get much talk (and was definitely sold short by the other lady Gareth Edwards was interviewing on BBC) was the background she had come from. She didn't have any money behind her at all, working and then training in her free time, she couldn't even afford a bag for her stuff when she was getting into it (she had a collection tin for it, in the end some guy handed her an envelope with the money). Really, really a result of her hard work and commitment, and great to see!

Just watched the US v Rus hockey game which was bloody brilliant, hardly ever get ice hockey on the TV over here but I always try and watch it whenever it is on. Felt a bit sorry for the Ruskies as it must have meant so much to them, although in games that close always feel sorry for whoever loses. Is that it for the Russians now?

 Pacific wrote:
Is that it for the Russians now?

Nah.

Also, who says Americans don't love hockey? https://vine.co/v/M7jj7tZEJ0O

TJ Oshie's a goddamn beast.

What. A. Game.

TJ Oshie has some gigantic brass ones.

The kid's also picked up 13,000 Twitter followers since he took Bob to school.

 Seaward wrote:

 Pacific wrote:
Is that it for the Russians now?

Nah.

Also, who says Americans don't love hockey? https://vine.co/v/M7jj7tZEJ0O

TJ Oshie's a goddamn beast.

I believe Slovakia was eliminated today, so the teams for the quarter finals are set I believe. Now it's just about seeding. I do have to say though, I'm pleased with how the US team has turned out. I thought it would come down to a contention for Bronze, but now it looks like they've got a good chance to go all the way.

 JB wrote:

 Minx wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

 mega_bassist wrote:
Oh boy, USA moved up to second place in total medals!

What was won today?

Women's skeleton: silver medal for Noelle PIKUS-PACE

http://www.sochi2014.com/en/skeleton-women-s-heat-4-04

Congrats are also due to Great Britain's Lizzy Yarnold. I followed her story on BBC earlier and was hoping that she would medal. That was the first gold medal of these games for GBR.

In America, we put champions' faces on our boxes of Wheaties breakfast cereal. What do you do in England?

IDK about the Winter Games. For the 2012 Olympics the Royal Mail painted a pillar box gold in the home town of the medal winner. There's one just down my high street, where I usually post my letters.

I think that was a special though, because the Summer Games were in the UK.

 cincydooley wrote:

Bran Dawri wrote:
Not a full sweep today. Merely gold and bronze on the men's 1000m skating.
It's been, what, three events, and we've got 8 out of 9 medals?
Might as well have let the Dutch national championships decide the men's skating events .

I wonder what the medal standings would look like if you take a country's overall population into account?

No kidding. The dutch speedskating is ridonkulous.

Hans Brinker rockin' the silver skates.

 Seaward wrote:

 Pacific wrote:
Is that it for the Russians now?

Nah.

Also, who says Americans don't love hockey? https://vine.co/v/M7jj7tZEJ0O

TJ Oshie's a goddamn beast.

Oshie is mine!

Great game and Osh showing off his sick moves!!

Too soon? Nsfw

 djones520 wrote:

 Seaward wrote:

 Pacific wrote:
Is that it for the Russians now?

Nah.

Also, who says Americans don't love hockey? https://vine.co/v/M7jj7tZEJ0O

TJ Oshie's a goddamn beast.

I believe Slovakia was eliminated today, so the teams for the quarter finals are set I believe. Now it's just about seeding. I do have to say though, I'm pleased with how the US team has turned out. I thought it would come down to a contention for Bronze, but now it looks like they've got a good chance to go all the way.

Every team makes it through the prelim round - all it's really for is to try and grab the buy into the quarters & seeding for the elimination round.
Grabbing top spot however is critical because it means you get a day-off to prepare/rest for the true tournament to begin. Having to play an elimination game, and then your quarter-final game the very next day is killer in a competition with this caliber of talent out on the ice!

The Slovaks however aren't going anywhere fast this year.
I'd be amazed if they even make it into the quarters...

Canada plays the Finns tomorrow - whoever wins will grab top spot and get the all-important buy into the quarters, while iirc, Norway & Austria will vie for the 3 & 4 spots in our pool.

Russia lost it's ice hockey game against the US!
This is a national disgrace! Mother Russia demands retribution! Violent retribution! Ready the nukes!
Ice hockey means so much to the Russians. Especially when playing against the US.
Luckily it is not over yet...

 Iron_Captain wrote:
Russia lost it's ice hockey game against the US!
This is a national disgrace! Mother Russia demands retribution! Violent retribution! Ready the nukes!
Ice hockey means so much to the Russians. Especially when playing against the US.
Luckily it is not over yet...

If only the US could get more on board with the sport...

 Iron_Captain wrote:
Russia lost it's ice hockey game against the US!
This is a national disgrace! Mother Russia demands retribution! Violent retribution! Ready the nukes!
Ice hockey means so much to the Russians. Especially when playing against the US.
Luckily it is not over yet...

Russia's defense stinks this year, and they played far too passively and didn't punish the US nearly enough for taking those longer shifts...

Besides, the "Cold War on Ice" rivalry is absolutely NOTHING compared to the rivalry between Russia vs. Canada!
Ask any Russian hockey fan who they want to face in the gold medal game and every single one of them will say that it has to be Russia vs. Canada. (note they're still smarting over that whole '72 Summit Series bit where we came back from being down 3-1 in games to win it all... on Russian ice to boot!)

Russia will only prove they love hockey as much as we do when they effectively shut their entire country down before 'the big game' begins!