Winter Olympics, PyeongChang, South Korea
The last week on the snow FREESTYLE SKIING – HALFPIPE: Canada’s Cassie Sharpe annihilated the competition in ladies ski-pipe. She held first place with her first run, and didn’t even need her second and third runs to beat out the French Silver Medalist and American Bronze. She topped her first run with her second run Read more about The last week on the snow[…]
The last week! The last week has been busy! There has been so much to capture (remember: 102 medal events); you probably know most of the results since interest typically picks up in the second week, but we have to leave some comments, obviously 🙂 Let’s recap the ice events first. Snow events next. Read more about This last week was nuts! Ice events recap[…]
The last couple days – Days 9 and 10 BOBSLEIGH – 2-MAN Wearing a Team Korea Coach jacket, Team Canada legend Pierre Lueders looked on as one after another, the three Canadian sleds posted top-10 finishes in the final heat of competition. Finally, the top ranked sled out of the first three heats, Canada-1 piloted Read more about Day 9/10[…]
Combo catch up! Day 7 LADIES’ AERIALS Belarus took home their second straight Aerials Olympic gold medal. In a Super Final littered with bobbles, over-rotations and wipeouts, Hanna Huskova was able to hold onto her landing and hold onto the top of the podium. For China, the Gold medal continues to elude them. Both Read more about Day 7 and 8[…]
Canada continues to grow their medal haul, capturing a trio on Day 6. Golden Day on the Long Track TJ Bloemen added to his silver medal from the 5000m race with a gold in the 10,000m race. He maintained smooth composure for the entire race and set an Olympic record in the process. Bloemen was Read more about Day 6 –[…]
MEN’S HOCKEY Day 5 saw the start of Men’s Hockey; the first time in 20 years where there would be no NHL players. A recent poll done before the Olympics showed that only 40% of Canadians were still interested in watching, 43% would still watch but didn’t care as much, and 17% would not watch Read more about Day 5 Hockey[…]
Loyal readers, sorry no full post tonight – I need to sleep. YT has something cooking for a belated post tomorrow in celebration of today’s / yesterday’s amazing performances. Mixed doubles curling GOLD for Canadians Morris and Lawes; the two made history as the first to win medals in multiple curling events. We still don’t Read more about Day 4 is Full Of Hardware[…]
If you managed to stay awake last night, it was action packed. MIXED DOUBLES’ CURLING Lawes and Morris avenged their round robin loss to Norway to move into the Gold Medal match. Switzerland sent OAR to the Bronze medal, guaranteeing another medal for Canada and the Swiss. Colour for each TBD Tuesday morning. The big Read more about Day 3 – The King Lives[…]
Day 2 saw Canada grab its first few medals. SNOWBOARDING – MEN’S SLOPESTYLE The other night, we saw all four Canadian men, McMorris, Nicholson, Toutant, and Parrot, qualify for the final on the  most interesting slopestyle course I’ve seen in a while (from a couch, not first hand experience, of course). The format for the final Read more about Day 2 – Medals![…]
We’ve been resisting asking our linesman buddy a million questions while she is at the Olympics, so we are thrilled that she took some time to share some details with us. PyeongChang Hockey Prep – As told by JT: So the past two days have been very busy, so I have been a bit tardy Read more about JT: A Referee in PyeongChang[…]