The Official GMHockey 2010 Winter Olympics Thread - All Talk Here!

This is the problem with people declaring this Olympics a failure when we were only half way through. 4 medals last night and we're tied for most gold medals this year. How can that be looked at as failure right? So we aren't going to hit 30 medals but we actually have a real shot at 20 with a really good chance at most gold medals in 2010 and maybe even tie the all time record.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:This is the problem with people declaring this Olympics a failure when we were only half way through. 4 medals last night and we're tied for most gold medals this year. How can that be looked at as failure right? So we aren't going to hit 30 medals but we actually have a real shot at 20 with a really good chance at most gold medals in 2010 and maybe even tie the all time record.

Realistically we certainly have a good chance at gold in curling (x2) and hockey (x2) and, I hear, snowboarding. In men's aerials, if Shouldice and/or Nissen had gotten the same score on their second jump as on the first, they'd be leading after the preliminaries. It's a clean slate now, so could we capture the gold? Definitely not out of the question.

In figure skating, I think Rochette is too far back (7+ points). She's certainly a medal contender and it would be a heck of a commemorative for her mother. I'm not holding out much hope, but who knows.

In men's short-track 500 Tremblay and Hamelin are 1-2 in heading into the quarter finals. Tremblay set a new Olympic Record. There's a very good chance there for a gold.

In ladies' 1000 speed skating two of them finished 1st in their qualifying heats and the third one finished 2nd. They twop-two are about a half second off the fastest qualifying times, but you tend to skate to the level of the competition in the heat, so as to not kill yourself before you get to the quarters. So, another potential.

And in the men's 5000 m relay we stand second after the qualifying heats, just .09s behind the Chinese. They were both in the same qualifying heat, so they were pushing each other, but the qualifiers were over a week ago, so I think they would have recovered by now. Anyhow, another possibility here.

Then there's men's and women's team pursuit -- no idea about those, but we're doing well in speedskating, sp who knows.

I hold no hope at all for any alpine events.

So, adding it all up, there is a legitimate shot at getting 6 more gold to tie the record, and if all the stars align we could break (if not shatter) it.

4-1 Canada over Sweden after 6 ends.

2-0 Canada over USA.

Canada up 2-0 with a couple minutes to go in the 1st against the USA in the gold medal game

Poulin with both goals.

Szabados is having a heck of a game. 4 minutes to gold.

GOLD CANADA!!!!!!!

wprager wrote:Szabados is having a heck of a game. 4 minutes to gold.

Another gold medal for Canada...although I do have to say with women's hockey, why even have a qualifying round? It's absolutely embarrassing for other countries to play these two in the finals. It almost goes against the spirit of the Olympics: fair play.

Congratulations to the women's hockey team.

PKC wrote:

wprager wrote:Szabados is having a heck of a game. 4 minutes to gold.

Another gold medal for Canada...although I do have to say with women's hockey, why even have a qualifying round? It's absolutely embarrassing for other countries to play these two in the finals. It almost goes against the spirit of the Olympics: fair play.

Congratulations to the women's hockey team.

That's their problem. There is no reason it has to be a 2-team event. Other countries simply need to put a little money into it.

So, we're back to being tied for the lead in Gold.

Cynthia Phaneuf (the first of two Canadians in ladies' figure skating) is up next.

Meanwhile they are about to start handing out the gold medals to the Canadian team.

The rookies did well -- Poulin scored both goals and Szabados pitched the shutout. Both are rookies on the team.

So we just upped our count to, umm, 30 gold? I guess the CoC reached their total after all.

wprager wrote:So we just upped our count to, umm, 30 gold? I guess the CoC reached their total after all.

Huh?

hemlock wrote:

wprager wrote:So we just upped our count to, umm, 30 gold? I guess the CoC reached their total after all.

Huh?

It took about 5 minutes to hand them all out. Had to be at least 20 gold medals there; maybe as high as 23.

Well we're slipping off the podium in aerials. For a few moments we were 1-2 but now just Steve Omischl remains in 3rd. Doubt he'll stay there. Yep, as I type this he slips off.

However Kyle Nissen was first after the first jump, so he still has a chance.

Aargh!

Can Shouldice give his second jump to Nissen?