In the 1,500 meter race at the Winter Olympics held in Vancouver the American skater, Apolo Anton Ohno, got a record-breaking silver while on the final lap two of the three South Korean races crashed, giving Ohno a chance to get a medal and Ohno, being 27 years old, gained his sixth Winter Olympics medal, which makes him the most successful U.S. male competitor. One of the three South Korean racers was disqualified from the six-man final cut across his teammate on the final turn, and his teammate, escaped the mishap, claiming the gold ahead of Ohno. J.R. Celski, another U.S skater, finished with a bronze medal. Kearney, for team U.S. won her first Olympic medal with points totaling 26.63, giving her a lead over Heil's 25.69, a Canadian Olympic racer. Other Olympic competitors, Schilerenzauer from Austria has a total of 268 points, and Malysz from Poland has a total of 269.5 points. Russian, Ivan Skobrev won a bronze medal in 6:18.05 in the 5,000 speed skating, while U.S. racer Chad Hendrick finished in 11th place. Weather has had its say in the Olympics, due to adverse weather the men's alpine skiing downhill competition, at Whistler Creekside, was postponed until Monday, it was originally set to occur on Saturday. Also, the women's super-combined and slalom skiing events, originally planed for Sunday, were postponed as well; the competitors were unable to finish practice runs on Saturday.
So far, team U.S. is doing fairly well, taking some medals is always a good thing. Other teams are doing a good job as well. Although weather has been an issue for some events, sometimes an extra day to practice might not be a bad thing for the competitors. Sometimes luck is a good thing as well, Ohno got a medal because two people in front of him happen fall. As of now, the Olympics have be very entertaining to watch, and hopefully team U.S. continues to do well.
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I was really sad that they had to end tonight. My family gets really into watching them.
ReplyDeleteI was also really dissapointed in Ohno. There seemed to be so much hype about him and how phenominal he is at speed skating, however he might have the highest number of medals, but he got beat! Maybe it was just me thinking that he was supposed to get gold gold and more gold. But to me it seems like the Korean crash was just luck and really shouldn't have medaled. But on the other hand go alpine skiers!!!! I suppose I have a personal bias being an alpine ski racer, but still these people are amazing! By far the most entertaining to watch I think! If anyone like watching skiing definitely check out Waren Miller stuff. His movie "Children of Winter- Never Grow Old" is so great, but saddly you can't buy it, commercial use only :(
-- Sam Thompson