The Schoch Brothers (SUI) of Philipp and Simon took HOME (literrally) the Gold and Silver in the Snowboarding Parallel Giant Slalom (PGS) event. No prize for guessing correctly for whom mom and dad rooted?
The victorious Schoch brothers (Source: NBC)
Tags: Snowboarding, Snowboard_Parallel_Giant_Slalom, Snowboard_PGS, struggles_and_triumphs, Torino_2006, winter-games, winter_olympics, winter_olympics_2006
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Team Canada won Silver in the finals of the women’s short-track 3000 metres relay.
The team composed of Alanna Kraus, Amanda Overland, Kalyna Roberge, Tania Vincent and Anouk Leblanc-Boucher took advantage of an error by the Chinese a few laps from the finish line to take seconds behind the Korean powerhouse.
The Italians never really were in […]
The results of the Men’s Hockey Quarterfinals are in:
Sweden (B3) beats Switzerland (A2) 6-2
Finland (A1) beats United States (B4) 4-3
Russia (B2) beats Canada (A3) 2-0
Czech Republic (A4) beats Slovakia (B1) 3-1
So, Finland meets Russia and Sweden meets the Czech Republic in the Men’s Semifinals on Friday (Feb. 24).
Tags: Ice_Hockey, Torino_2006, winter-games, […]
Canadian Chandra Crawford surprised everyone, including herself, by winning the gold medal in the 1.1-kilometre cross-country skiing sprint at the Torino Winter Games Wednesday.
Chandra Crawford, gold medalist (Photo CBC)
She led the race early and held it throughout over Germany’s Claudia Kuenzel and pulled away to win in a time of two minutes, 12.3 seconds.
Kuenzel […]
Source: CBC
Cindy Klassen earned her fourth medal of the Torino Olympic Winter Games when she won gold as she and Kristina Groves finished 1st and 2nd in Wednesday’s women’s 1,500 metre long-track speed skating event.
This would have been unthinkable in 2002 in Salt Lake City as Canadians were not dominant in this event.
Great work and […]
Oh… that’s right, I’m already married.
But you rock girl!
4 medals in Torino!
The gold you just got in the 1,500, 2 silvers in the 1,000 and team pursuit and a bronze in the 3,000 !
This is a new record for a Canadian female athlete in a Winter Games.
Cindy Klassen, 4th time olympic medalist and cute Canadian […]
This year, Canada’s olympic comitee decided they would aim at 25 medals or a 3rd rank in the standings (I had previously reported 5th… so… who knows).
So far, Canada has 14 medals. Not in a comfortable situation to go for the 25.
But if Canada’s athletes who finished 4th had pushed just one bit more to […]
Surely you’ve noticed the oodles of Google “doodles” over the years … but I never knew how big this conspiracy was until my friend Joe pointed it out to me today ..
The Google Curling Doodle
Apparently - this isn’t the first doodle of the Torino 2005 Olympics .. they have .. (yes, you guessed it) […]
Felix Gottwald is the Gold Medal winner (18 minutes 29 seconds) in the Nordic Combined Sprint event.
Gottwald’s victory bring Austria’s Gold Medal tally to 8 (the rest are 5 Silvers and 3 Bronzes). Most of Austria’s Gold Medals are won in events where skiing is an important element: Alpine Skiing, Nordic Combined, and Ski […]
The German Women Team (Sandra Kiriasis and Anja Schneiderheinze) zoomed to a Gold in their light blue bullet of a bobsled (Total Time - 3 minutes 49.98 seconds).
American Pilot Shauna Rohbock and Braker Valerie Fleming took America’s first ever medal (Silver) at the event. A Silver that feels more like a Gold indeed.
A flying […]
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