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Now that is a MEDAL
Oh, Canada ... you really get it.
We're about to introduce you, the reader, to the greatest thing at the Olympics in Sochi.
Ready for it?
Check out Canada's special beer fridge, located in its Olympic house:
That'll show them Ruskies. They probably like Pepsi :don'twantto-see:/
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How brilliant is this idea?! :good:
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/e...d-game-rollergard-skate-guards-154120322.html
https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/e...d-game-rollergard-skate-guards-154120322.html
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DARA HOWELL GOLD
KIM LEMARRE BRONZE
KIM LEMARRE BROUGHT HOME BRONZE IN THE SAME EVENT!
WAY TO GO GIRLS!!!
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We finished 4th in women's luge that's a best ever congratulations Alex Gough! You didn't medal but you've made a great stride for Canada.
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Wow 9 medals so far. Canada has come a long way. For so long we sucked at the both Olympics at least we are showing we are a winter nation in the past 2 winter Olympics.
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3-2 Women's hockey team beat the USA.
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Denny Morrison
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[h=1]Denny Morrison wins silver for Canada in men’s 1,000-metre speedskating at Sochi Olympics[/h][h=2]Morrison wasn’t even supposed to compete in the 1,000 but teammate Gilmore Junio gave up his spot because he knew Morrison was Canada’s best skater.[/h]
Men's Speed Skating
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[h=1]Denny Morrison wins silver for Canada in men’s 1,000-metre speedskating at Sochi Olympics[/h][h=2]Morrison wasn’t even supposed to compete in the 1,000 but teammate Gilmore Junio gave up his spot because he knew Morrison was Canada’s best skater.[/h]
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SOCHI, RUSSIA—How about having Gilmore Junio carry the Canadian flag into the closing ceremonies of the Sochi Olympics, says Denny Morrison.
How about having both long-track speedskaters lead Canada into Fisht Stadium?
Morrison, taking the place vacated Wednesday by his friend and teammate Junio, raced to silver in the 1,000 metres between a pair of Dutch skaters Thursday to write the final chapter to a remarkable story of selflessness and doing the right thing.
“It’s a dream, a fairytale story,” said an emotional Morrison after earning his third Olympic medal in three Games. “It’s difficult to really believe that it’s happening.”
Having come back from a broken leg the year before, Morrison agonizingly fell at the Canadian trials in December and failed to qualify for the 1,000 metres. There was a reskate an hour later at the trials, but his tank was empty and he didn’t make it.
So the 28-year-old from Fort St. John, B.C., came to Sochi with a place in the 1,500 metres and team pursuit but as a reserve in the distance that was his bread and butter.
Speed Skating Canada then approached Junio, a 23-year-old from Calgary who was 10th in Monday’s 500 metres, and asked whether he would consider giving his place up to the veteran.
“It was 100 per cent my decision. They left it in my court,” said Junio, who is better at the 500 than 1,000. “They said ‘You can talk to Denny.’
“But it was an easy decision. The guy’s been skating unreal these past few weeks and I wanted to see him skate the 1,000 metres.”
On Monday night, Morrison got a text on one of the phones provided by the Canadian team. It said: “Hey man, are you ready to race the 1,000? I’ll give you my spot.”
Because the phone was Russian, he did not recognize the number attached to the text.
“I knew it was from a teammate but I thought maybe someone stole his phone . . . I had to go hear it in person.”
He jumped on a bike and went to Canada Olympic House where Junio was with both skaters’ families.
“I heard it from the horse’s mouth,” said Morrison. “That was an Olympic moment, special in and of itself.”
“He told me we need some medals on this team and he believed I could win a medal and historically I had better results in the thousand than him,” he added. “And so it sounded like he wanted me to go and get this one.”
Morrison, who had been preparing for his 1,500 race, said he was so pumped he could probably have raced then and there.
“I had to put on some relaxing music and calm down,” he said.
The good karma awaiting Junio must be massive. Morrison says that may surface very soon.
“I’ve heard a rumour that Speed Skating Canada is pushing to have Gilmore Junio as the Canadian flag-bearer at the closing ceremonies,” he said. “Maybe that’s something we can get behind, because I think that would be really special. He does embody what it means to be a Canadian Olympian, I think.”
Stefan Groothuis of the Netherlands won in one minute 8.39 seconds, ahead of Morrison in 1:08.43 and 500-metre champion Michel Mulder of the Netherlands in 1:08.74.
Vincent De Haitre of Cumberland, Ont., was 20th while William Dutton of Humboldt, Sask., was 26th and Muncef Ouardi of Quebec City was 32nd.
How about having both long-track speedskaters lead Canada into Fisht Stadium?
Morrison, taking the place vacated Wednesday by his friend and teammate Junio, raced to silver in the 1,000 metres between a pair of Dutch skaters Thursday to write the final chapter to a remarkable story of selflessness and doing the right thing.
“It’s a dream, a fairytale story,” said an emotional Morrison after earning his third Olympic medal in three Games. “It’s difficult to really believe that it’s happening.”
Having come back from a broken leg the year before, Morrison agonizingly fell at the Canadian trials in December and failed to qualify for the 1,000 metres. There was a reskate an hour later at the trials, but his tank was empty and he didn’t make it.
So the 28-year-old from Fort St. John, B.C., came to Sochi with a place in the 1,500 metres and team pursuit but as a reserve in the distance that was his bread and butter.
Speed Skating Canada then approached Junio, a 23-year-old from Calgary who was 10th in Monday’s 500 metres, and asked whether he would consider giving his place up to the veteran.
“It was 100 per cent my decision. They left it in my court,” said Junio, who is better at the 500 than 1,000. “They said ‘You can talk to Denny.’
“But it was an easy decision. The guy’s been skating unreal these past few weeks and I wanted to see him skate the 1,000 metres.”
On Monday night, Morrison got a text on one of the phones provided by the Canadian team. It said: “Hey man, are you ready to race the 1,000? I’ll give you my spot.”
Because the phone was Russian, he did not recognize the number attached to the text.
“I knew it was from a teammate but I thought maybe someone stole his phone . . . I had to go hear it in person.”
He jumped on a bike and went to Canada Olympic House where Junio was with both skaters’ families.
“I heard it from the horse’s mouth,” said Morrison. “That was an Olympic moment, special in and of itself.”
“He told me we need some medals on this team and he believed I could win a medal and historically I had better results in the thousand than him,” he added. “And so it sounded like he wanted me to go and get this one.”
Morrison, who had been preparing for his 1,500 race, said he was so pumped he could probably have raced then and there.
“I had to put on some relaxing music and calm down,” he said.
The good karma awaiting Junio must be massive. Morrison says that may surface very soon.
“I’ve heard a rumour that Speed Skating Canada is pushing to have Gilmore Junio as the Canadian flag-bearer at the closing ceremonies,” he said. “Maybe that’s something we can get behind, because I think that would be really special. He does embody what it means to be a Canadian Olympian, I think.”
Stefan Groothuis of the Netherlands won in one minute 8.39 seconds, ahead of Morrison in 1:08.43 and 500-metre champion Michel Mulder of the Netherlands in 1:08.74.
Vincent De Haitre of Cumberland, Ont., was 20th while William Dutton of Humboldt, Sask., was 26th and Muncef Ouardi of Quebec City was 32nd.
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From the above! I think it would be awesome if Gimore Junio was the flag bearer for Canada at the end of the Olympics! He gave up his spot so that a better skater could win a medal for Canada! That's TOFTT to the ultimate level! That's also what Canadians are about at and what a big part of the Olympics are about!
You're truly a champion! Good on you!
You're truly a champion! Good on you!
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Couldn't agree more. +1 for Gimore Junio as the flag bearer for Canada @ the closing ceremonies. And regardless of whether or not that happens - what a tremendous class act that guy is!
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CANADIAN COACH HELPS RUSSIAN CROSS-COUNTRY SKIER
WAY TO GO COACH JUSTIN WADSWORTH!
SOCHI, RUSSIA—After his own miserable afternoon in the midst of the greatest 24 hours in our Olympic history, Canadian cross-country ski coach Justin Wadsworth wandered over to the finish line. WAY TO GO COACH JUSTIN WADSWORTH!
His own athletes were all eliminated early. He was crestfallen. He wanted to watch the end of the semifinal in the men’s free sprint.
As he stood there, surrounded by other officials, he spotted Russian Anton Gafarov coming over a rise. Gafarov, an early medal favourite, was struggling miserably.
He’d crashed on a quick downhill corner and broken a ski. Then he’d crashed again. A long, thin layer of P-Tex had been skinned off his ski . It was now wrapped around his foot like a snare.
Gafarov was not ‘skiing’ to the finish. He was dragging himself.
Wadsworth looked around. No one was moving. Everyone just stared, including a group of Russian coaches.
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“It was like watching an animal stuck in a trap. You can’t just sit there and do nothing about it,” Wadsworth said later.
In a race typically decided by tenths-of-a-second, Gafarov was three minutes behind the pack. He was trying to make it the last couple of hundred metres down the 1.7 km course.
Wadsworth grabbed a spare ski he’d brought for Canadian racer Alex Harvey and ran onto the track.
Gafarov stopped. Wadsworth kneeled beside him. No words passed between them. Gafarov only nodded. Wadsworth pulled off the broken equipment and replaced it. Gafarov set off again.
“I wanted him to have dignity as he crossed the finish line,” Wadsworth, a three-time Olympian, said.
That. That right there. That’s the Olympics.
If you don’t get a lump in throat thinking about what Justin Wadsworth did for a man he doesn’t know to speak to, but recognizes as a friend in sport, then you should head to the ER. You need a heart transplant.
The moment circled back perfectly to Sara Renner in Torino 2006, and the Norwegian official who tossed her his own pole once she’d lost hers. Renner won silver for Canada. Norway finished fourth.
The Norwegian, Bjornar Hakensmoen, later said: “This competition, and all competitions, it should be a fight. It should not be decided by skis.”
He doesn’t say anything there about winning. The important thing is the fight, and not just that. Fighting the right way.
Every two years, we send our best to the Olympics hoping they will express something essential about all the rest of us. All we ask is that they represent us with pride.
On that basis and more, Canada has just enjoyed the finest day in its Olympic history.
Sochi is the 47th Games — summer and winter — we have participated in. For 18 hours between late Monday night and early Tuesday evening, Canada led the total and gold medal count . For the first time ever.
We can point at the podiums — and for the third time here, there were two winsome and utterly charming young athletes to fall in love with on that score. Dara Howell and Kim Lamarre took gold and bronze , respectively, in the ski slopestyle Tuesday morning.
Lamarre had been dropped from the national program a year earlier after tearing up a knee.
“I was like, well, screw this. I have a chance. I’m going to keep putting my heart into it and give my everything.”
If you feel like it, you could spend all day wandering around Olympic venues here, bursting into tears.
The medals matter, but from the perspective of a whole nation, they are the dessert. The way these Canadian athletes and coaches carry themselves is the real patriotic meal.
For two weeks, they are the only face we present to the whole world. If so, thank God for Justin Wadsworth. Russia will remember what he did here longer than they will remember any Canadian medalist, in the same way that we still remember Bjornar Hakensmoen .
Our streak on top of the medal board — less than a day in the midst of about two years of competition over the course of a century — ended in the early evening. Norway took the lead based largely on their success in Wadsworth’s backyard, cross-country skiing.
Three Canadians made the heats. All were eliminated in the first rounds.
By banal statistical measures, the day was a failure.
Because of Justin Wadsworth’s simple act of sportsmanship, it becomes a great Canadian moment. He’s an American by birth. It hardly matters. He lives in B.C. His kids are Canadian. He’s wearing our colours. He’s us. Or, at least, the ‘us’ we’d like to think we are.
(Another lovely angle in all this — the other person who benefitted from Hakensmoen’s kindness to Renner was her teammate in that race, Beckie Scott. Wadsworth and Scott are married.)
We’re here first and foremost in the spirit of friendly competition. When we win, we want to do it the right way. We don’t want it to be about the skis.
Talking about it, Wadsworth circled back to Hakensmoen and Renner.
“Any coach would offer that pole.”
Well, Wadsworth was standing amidst several coaches. He was the only one who thought to help.
The best part of this story? When I talked to him, about two hours after it all went down, Wadsworth wasn’t clear on why I wanted to.
Because of the thing with Gafarov, I said.
“Oh. That.”
He was surprised anyone would care.
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At the end, I congratulated him. I suggested that what he’d done was the real Olympics, the real reason we all care so much.
Wadsworth seemed embarrassed. Then he laughed, and said something that reminds you who these people are.
“That makes me feel better, he said. “Because the rest of our day was total s---.”
That’s us, Canada. Friends and fighters.
For one magical day, more resonantly than ever before, the world was reminded of both.
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Lots of good sportsmanship outweighing the usual Olympic scandals. Nice to see.
From the above! I think it would be awesome if Gimore Junio was the flag bearer for Canada at the end of the Olympics! He gave up his spot so that a better skater could win a medal for Canada! That's TOFTT to the ultimate level! That's also what Canadians are about at and what a big part of the Olympics are about!
You're truly a champion! Good on you!
That was such a classy move. Just knowing he had a better chance on a medal than him shows how much he loves his country.
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I do believe Happy Gilmour has another event to compete in so he could medal in perhaps the team races.
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He better let the best man win. My tax dollars are paying for this. I want as many medals as possible. LOL!
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If you want Gilmour to be flag bearer, show him support and like this facebook page https://www.facebook.com/GilmorejunioforCanadianflagbearer
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We won 3-1 I thought it was a somewhat shaky game, but it's the first game and round robin will get our boys together.
We did take some bad penalties.
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No medals today!
Men's speed skating relay, one guy fell and they tumbled to last in their heat.
Women's relay luge finished 4th overall. Good display for a new event and we've never been a luge country.
Men's speed skating relay, one guy fell and they tumbled to last in their heat.
Women's relay luge finished 4th overall. Good display for a new event and we've never been a luge country.
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