The XXII Winter Olympic Games 2014 in Sochi, Russian Federation (7th - 23rd of February 2014)

[EscGeek]

 

[Morty]

"This video is not available in your country."

 

[SRBIJA]

"This video is not available in your country."

''The Slovenian woman who won the gold medal in alpine skiing is also a pop star in her country. *applause* So, Justin Bieber is not the only pop star going downhill fast. *laugh* *applause*''

 

[esc87fan]

Two more medals for Canada! Dominique Maltais scores silver in women's snowboard cross while Jan Hudec wins bronze in the men's super-G - our country's first Olympic alpine medal in 20 years!

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Biathlon is really interesting today

 

[ShoeFlo]

Biathlon is really interesting today

Unfortunately it was cancelled because of heavy fog... However it should take place tomorrow morning.

 

[ShoeFlo]

up to now the "famous wintersports nation" Netherlands have the most medals of all nations and they reached this only with medals in speed skating
Oh dear this is curious

 

[esc87fan]

Great day for Canada so far today! On top of the 2 medals won while I was sleeping, a thrilling 9-8 extra end win over China in men's curling, a 2-1 overtime win over Finland in men's hockey, and Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir sit 2.5 points behind the Americans in ice dance

 

[Morty]

Thanks. I didn't know Tina was an artist, I'll have to check out her music.

Netherlands have been insane in the speed skating. 16 of 24 medals so far, and 3 events with only Dutch skaters on the podium. Amazing. And they can still get more.

I was really looking forward to the boardercross, and altho I tend to like seeing people crash, it's never fun to see people get so badly injured. Unfortunately, it happened to both Helene Olafsen of Norway, and Jacqueline Hernandez of USA. Helene have previously had a severe knee injury, and today she ruined her knee AGAIN. I hope she'll recover from this, as she's had similar injuries before, and she's a fighter, but it's gonna take time. I dunno how Jacqueline is recovering, but she was knocked unconscious when she crashed, which looked REALLY bad. Good to see that she woke up tho, and I hope she'll be ok. Also, very sad for Lindsey Jacobellis, the Olympic curse keeps stalking her.

I'm sad the skeleton events are done, but fortunately there's still a bit of bob left, which are 2 of the sports I've been looking forward to the most in the Olympics. Unfortunately, the Norwegian broadcaster isn't giving it a lot of attention, because there are no Norwegian athletes there. I still love the sport tho.

The last couple of days haven't been great for Norway, as usual, we expected lots of medals, especially in cross-country skiing, but we failed on both the relay events. Apparently, the warm weather has been causing problems for the people responsible for the skis. Therese Johaug did get a bronze tho a few days ago.

The best news was early today. Men's Super-G have been a good Norwegian sport over the years, and as with the downhill, "everyone" was expecting Aksel Lund Svindal to win. He was a few 10th of a second too slow tho, but we still got the gold medal. Kjetil Jansrud, who got badly injured in March last year, have fought his way back to the top, and today, all his hard practice have paid off (just like Dario Cologna of Switzerland). Amazing, and I'm really happy for him.

Updated (3rd in the table again, but we've been down to 8th since my last update):
5 Gold (Kjetil Jansrud, Maiken Caspersen Falla, Marit Bjørgen, Ola Vigen Hattestad, Ole Einar Bjørndalen)
3 Silver (Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, Ståle Sandbech, Tora Berger)
6 Bronze (Anders Bardal, Heidi Weng, Kjetil Jansrud, Magnus Krog, Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Therese Johaug)

 

[lilka]

up to now the "famous wintersports nation" Netherlands have the most medals of all nations and they reached this only with medals in speed skating
Oh dear this is curious

One of the gold medals in speedskating was taken away from the Netherlands by our Polish hero Zbigniew Bródka. Seeing the grimace on Koen Verweij's face during the flower ceremony was priceless.

 

[esc87fan]

Canadian medal update...

Gold: 4 (Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Charles Hamelin, Alex Bilodeau, Dara Howell)
Silver: 6 (Chloe Dufour-Lapointe, figure skating team, Mikael Kingsbury, Patrick Chan, Denny Morrison, Dominique Maltais)
Bronze: 4 (Mark McMorris, Kim Lamarre, Denny Morrison, Jan Hudec)

 

[VictoriaLT]

I watched figure skating today and it seemed to me that Deividas was very nervous and not relaxed at all. Anyway, I suppose there always can be worse. I am happy they qualified for tomorrow's free-style program. I hope they will be more confident in themselves tomorrow and will perform better. :}

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Medal table:

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany	7	3	2	12
2	Netherlands	5	5	7	17
3	Norway	5	3	6	14
4	Switzerland	5	1	1	7
5	Russian Fed.	4	7	5	16
6	Canada	4	6	4	14
7	United States	4	4	8	16
8	Poland	4	0	0	4
9	China	3	2	0	5
10	Belarus	3	0	1	4
11	Sweden	2	5	2	9
12	Austria	2	4	1	7
13	France	2	0	4	6
14	Japan	1	3	1	5
15	Czech Republic	1	2	1	4
16	Slovenia	1	1	3	5
17	Korea	1	1	1	3
18	Great Britain	1	0	1	2
19	Slovakia	1	0	0	1
20	Italy	0	2	3	5
21	Finland	0	2	0	2
22	Latvia	0	1	2	3
23	Australia	0	1	1	2
24	Croatia	0	1	0	1
=25	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
=25	Ukraine	0	0	1	1

 

[DannyDS]

One of the gold medals in speedskating was taken away from the Netherlands by our Polish hero Zbigniew Bródka. Seeing the grimace on Koen Verweij's face during the flower ceremony was priceless.

I enjoyed it so much

 

[lilka]

Me too. It was epic.

Now I'm hoping for another gold medal for Kowalczyk in women cross-country skiing, though I'm aware of the fact that Bjørgen is a serious threat.

 

[nofuxCZ]

Preliminary round of men's ice hockey tournament just ended yesterday. The 12 teams were then ranked 1st to 12th according to these criterias: 1. Position in the group, 2. Higher number of points 3. Better goal difference.
Top 4 teams advance directly to the quarterfinals. Other 8 teams will be paired by the best-worst system to fight for the remaining 4 quarterfinal spots in the qualification.

This is how the playoff bracket looks like:

Can't wait for the Czechoslovak derby

And I also have to share this amazing gif of Ján Laco's hip check on Tereshenko from yesterday's Slovakia-Russia game

 

[esc87fan]

It will be interesting to see who Canada gets in the next round

 

[EscGeek]

And I also have to share this amazing gif of Ján Laco's hip check on Tereshenko from yesterday's Slovakia-Russia game

now that's twerking

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Many competitions were cancelled or at least postponed today due to the bad weather conditions (heavy fog).

 

[ShoeFlo]

Now my personal highlight of Olympics is starting: ski jumping team competition

I can't remember when the teams were so close to each other in terms of quality, so it will be very exciting