Team Canada 2014 Olympic Recap Thread.

[lovelatinas]

Day 1. A lot of expectations for Canada to medal in Slopestyle events. Mods please make sticky.

 

[lovelatinas]

3 Canadians qualify for the finals in men's slopestyle and Canada could win gold, silver, bronze in this one event alone as the are only 4 finalists. Gold medal later today or this morning.

 

[HOF]

All 3 Dufour-Lapointe sisters have qualified for their event final as well.

 

[HOF]

 

[lovelatinas]

How many in that finals. Good chance to finish 1,2,3?

 

[HOF]

Not sure but 2 of the sisters are supposed to win medals.

 

[lovelatinas]

Mark McMorris wins Bronze for Canada in men's slopstyle snowboarding. 3 Canadians in the top 10.

 

[Wanker]

Canadians Olympic winning medals thread

Canadians Olympic winning medals thread

First day and we have a bronze.

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[h=1]Mark McMorris wins bronze in men’s slopestyle for Canada's first medal in Sochi[/h]

Mark McMorris was so certain he hadn’t won a medal in slopestyle on Saturday he started walking away convinced he’d finished fourth. Then an official told him to wait and see.
When the final scores went up, McMorris had hung on for a bronze, giving Canada its first medal of the Sochi Olympics and making history by being among the first medal winners of the sport at any Olympics. Canadians Max Parrot finished fifth while Sébastien Toutant came ninth.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/spo...tyle-final-at-sochi-olympics/article16762256/

 

[User-E]

Sarah Burke helped get halfpipe skiing into Olympics, but the IOC won’t let Torah Bright honour her memory



Sarah Burke's absence is being felt at the Sochi Olympics, but the International Olympic Committee has ruled that her friends can't honour her memory the way they want to. Burke, the Canadian freestyle skier who won four X Games gold medals and helped establish halfpipe skiing as a discipline (it's making its Olympic debut in Sochi), tragically died after a crash in halfpipe training in January 2012, but many of the Olympians in Sochi still remember Burke fondly and want to show the world what she meant to them. Sadly, though, as Australian snowboarder Torah Bright discovered, the IOC has banned helmet stickers honouring Burke.



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Read more here

 

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[h=1]Dmitry Medvedev sleeping at the Sochi Olympic Games 2014[/h]

 

[lovelatinas]

Canada wins a gold and silver in women's mogul. Gongrats to the Dufour-Lapointe sisters. Justine Gold and Chloe Silver.

 

[lovelatinas]

Day 1 and we now have medals in all 3 colours. Medals count now 3, gold, silver, bronze. Can Canada win the 2014 Olympics?

 

[lovelatinas]

First day and we have a bronze.

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Mark McMorris wins bronze in men’s slopestyle for Canada's first medal in Sochi

Mark McMorris was so certain he hadn’t won a medal in slopestyle on Saturday he started walking away convinced he’d finished fourth. Then an official told him to wait and see.
When the final scores went up, McMorris had hung on for a bronze, giving Canada its first medal of the Sochi Olympics and making history by being among the first medal winners of the sport at any Olympics. Canadians Max Parrot finished fifth while Sébastien Toutant came ninth.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/spo...tyle-final-at-sochi-olympics/article16762256/

The beauty of this is that the last competitor was a Canadian and Canada was assured a medal.

 

[Transient]

I have to say, the one thing I dislike the most about the Olympics, is the focus on medal count.

 

[lovelatinas]

I have to say, the one thing I dislike the most about the Olympics, is the focus on medal count.

Than don't watch and don't care.

 

[Boing]

Canada takes gold, silver in women’s moguls


KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia – Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Montreal has won Canada’s first gold medal of the Sochi Olympics – and her sister Chloe is on the podium beside her.
Justine finished first with a score of 22.44 while Chloe was second with 21.66 points.

Defending champion Hannah Kearney of the U.S., was third at 21.49.
A third Dufour-Lapoint sister, Maxime, failed to make the final along with Audrey Robichaud of Quebec City.

The two sisters held hands as the prepared to take their spots on the podium.
– More to come



https://globalnews.ca/news/1137277/canada-takes-gold-silver-in-womens-moguls/

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[HOF]

Sarah Burke helped get halfpipe skiing into Olympics, but the IOC won’t let Torah Bright honour her memory



Sarah Burke's absence is being felt at the Sochi Olympics, but the International Olympic Committee has ruled that her friends can't honour her memory the way they want to. Burke, the Canadian freestyle skier who won four X Games gold medals and helped establish halfpipe skiing as a discipline (it's making its Olympic debut in Sochi), tragically died after a crash in halfpipe training in January 2012, but many of the Olympians in Sochi still remember Burke fondly and want to show the world what she meant to them. Sadly, though, as Australian snowboarder Torah Bright discovered, the IOC has banned helmet stickers honouring Burke.



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Read more here

I created a thread in her honour in the Sports section.​

 

[Transient]

Than don't watch and don't care.

I do watch and I do care, just not about how many medals are won by which country.

My apologies if it seems I was insulting your thread lovelatinas, that was not my intention.

 

[HOF]

Canada wins a gold and silver in women's mogul. Gongrats to the Dufour-Lapointe sisters. Justine Gold and Chloe Silver.

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