Hello again everybody,
I intended to do a lot more pre-games updates, but I got really busy. I will also be busy during the games, but I intend to do my utmost to update this everyday. Today is DAY 1. On the menu for today, Women's Moguls qualifiers, the brand new figure skating team event starts the short programs, and the Men and Women's Snowboard Slopestyle qualifiers. And then, of course, tomorrow is the Opening Ceremony. I thought it was tonight, but I was sadly mistaken.
Ok in terms of watching these Olympics, important information. Everyday, you can watch all of the events live on nbcolympics.com as long as you have a television package that qualifies you to be able to get the actual NBC channels that the Olympics will be shown on, that is MSNBC and CNBC, USA and the NBC Sports Network starting Feb 8th. This is all live and starts at 3 AM everyday. The NBC primetime begins at 7pm CST. The rest of the daytime tv events will be split with MSNBC, CNBC, and USA and NBCSN will continue their live coverage everyday starting Feb 8th at 3AM
So just to explain the new Team Figure Skating event, each country competing has four components: a Men's Singles competitor, a Women's Singles competitor, a Pair's Team, and an Ice Dancing Team. The US, Canada, and Russia are the most likely contenders for medaling in this event. The benefit of this event for the athletes that participate is that they really get a chance to get a feel for competing at the Olympics before moving on to their individual events. The US has selected Pair's Abbott and Castelli and Men's Jeremy Abbott to compete in the team with the Ice Dancing likely to got to Meryl Davis and Charlie White (I love them) and the women's likely to be split with controversial Olympian Ashley Wagner skating the short program and Gracie Gold most likely skating the free skate. In case you missed why Ashley Wagner is a controversial choice, she places 4th at the US championships behind Mirai Nigasu, but was selected to the team over her due to her body of work in the past four years.
Also, not current but you should definitely all watch Jason Brown's US Championships Free Skate. It's fantastic and he is also a local boy from Highland Park, IL.
Shaun White injured himself during training runs on the Slopestyle course and decided to pull out of that event to concentrate on the halfpipe compeition. It sucks that he is leaving an open spot that someone else could have taken, but I understand the impulse to protect his best event.
Hannah Kearney is already on her way to defending her Vancouver Gold with a first place finish in the Women' Moguls qualifiers.
Ok, I will update more later, but for now, the figure skating team event starts and the Men's Short Program is first up followed by the Pairs.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Friday, January 10, 2014
Welcome to Sochi!
Hello fellow Olympiphiles,
I am back for another session of covering the Olympic Games. This time the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Now there has already been tons of controversy over these games due to Russia's stance on many topics and other reasons, but I am not going to go into those, because for me that is not what the Olympics are about. Granted, I agree with many who wanted to boycott Sochi over their policy on Homosexuality, but this is one big machine that can not be stopped quite so easily. I hope those athletes who are gay trumpet it loud and proud in the faces of the Russian government. Also, the US State Department has issued warnings to any citizens wishing to travel to Sochi to see the Olympic games due to the recent terrorist attacks that have occurred near that area. Hopefully these games will be as safe and uneventful in that respect as recent games have been. Anyways, politics aside, here is the news leading up to these Olympic games.
Lindsey Vonn is out. Lindsey Vonn who has had massive problems with her knees over the last few years has been forced to withdraw from these Olympics after injuring herself yet again only a couple weeks ago.
Lolo Jones is close to clinching a spot on the 2014 team. How? you might say, since she was a hurdler in the Summer Olympics. Lolo gave up track and field and has been training since the last Olympics to be a pusher on the Bobsled team. There are 5 pushers up for 3 slots on the team and its up to the coaches discretion who will be picked. There is likely to be controversy either way since many view Lolo as a spotlight hog and that they will only pick her for the publicity, but I think if she has put in her time and proved herself then she should be there just as much as anyone else.
Austrian Ski Jumper Thomas Morgenstern is injured after a crash during a training run. He flipped and fell backwards on his head resulting in a serious head injury and a damaged lung. He won medals both in the Turin Olympics and the Vancouver Olympics. Hopefully he will recover in time for these Olympic Games.
One of my favorite Olympians, Shaun White, looks to qualify for the Olympic Team this weekend in both Slopestyle Snowboarding and Half-Pipe. If you have the time next weekend, the Half-Pipe finals will be broadcast on Saturday NBC from 9:00 -10:00 CST and the Slopestyle final will be on Sunday 2:00 - 3:00 PM CST. I am getting somewhat conflicting info on that so be sure to check your TV schedule if you are so inclined.
Figure Skater Gracie Gold from my home sweet home, Chicago, is hoping to live up to her last name and win that color medal when she gets to the Olympics this year. First she has to earn 1 of 3 spots available by competing in the US Figure Skating Championships. So far so good. A solid short skate put her 15 points ahead of the nearest competition. You can watch the championships this weekend on NBC from 2-5PM CST tomorrow and again at 7-10PM CST, and also on Sunday 2-4PM CST. In other figure skating news, Evan Lysacek is injured as has withdrawn from the Olympics. Other Olympic hopefuls include 2 time US Champ Ashley Wagner, US Bronze medalist Agnes Zawadzki, 2 time US Champ and 2010 Olympian Mirai Nagasu on the women's side, and reigning US Champ Max Aaron, 3 time US Champ and 2010 Olympian Jeremy Abbott, 2012 US Silver medalist Adam Rippon on the Men's side. Also, 2 time World Champs and 2010 Olympic Silver Medalist ice dancers Charlie White and Meryl Davis will also compete for a spot. Also, adorable ice dance siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani will be trying to a spot. They also enjoying making videos, look the up on Youtube under the name ShibSibs.
I watched some of the Short Track Speedskating US trials last weekend, and I have to say that I am looking forward to the US team competing in Sochi. Short track is one of my favorite sports in the Winter Olympics.
Ok, that about wraps up my info for today. I will continue to post updates leading up to the Games and then during the games I will give you a rundown everyday of the days events and cool stories. YAY OLYMPICS!
I am back for another session of covering the Olympic Games. This time the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Now there has already been tons of controversy over these games due to Russia's stance on many topics and other reasons, but I am not going to go into those, because for me that is not what the Olympics are about. Granted, I agree with many who wanted to boycott Sochi over their policy on Homosexuality, but this is one big machine that can not be stopped quite so easily. I hope those athletes who are gay trumpet it loud and proud in the faces of the Russian government. Also, the US State Department has issued warnings to any citizens wishing to travel to Sochi to see the Olympic games due to the recent terrorist attacks that have occurred near that area. Hopefully these games will be as safe and uneventful in that respect as recent games have been. Anyways, politics aside, here is the news leading up to these Olympic games.
Lindsey Vonn is out. Lindsey Vonn who has had massive problems with her knees over the last few years has been forced to withdraw from these Olympics after injuring herself yet again only a couple weeks ago.
Lolo Jones is close to clinching a spot on the 2014 team. How? you might say, since she was a hurdler in the Summer Olympics. Lolo gave up track and field and has been training since the last Olympics to be a pusher on the Bobsled team. There are 5 pushers up for 3 slots on the team and its up to the coaches discretion who will be picked. There is likely to be controversy either way since many view Lolo as a spotlight hog and that they will only pick her for the publicity, but I think if she has put in her time and proved herself then she should be there just as much as anyone else.
Austrian Ski Jumper Thomas Morgenstern is injured after a crash during a training run. He flipped and fell backwards on his head resulting in a serious head injury and a damaged lung. He won medals both in the Turin Olympics and the Vancouver Olympics. Hopefully he will recover in time for these Olympic Games.
One of my favorite Olympians, Shaun White, looks to qualify for the Olympic Team this weekend in both Slopestyle Snowboarding and Half-Pipe. If you have the time next weekend, the Half-Pipe finals will be broadcast on Saturday NBC from 9:00 -10:00 CST and the Slopestyle final will be on Sunday 2:00 - 3:00 PM CST. I am getting somewhat conflicting info on that so be sure to check your TV schedule if you are so inclined.
Figure Skater Gracie Gold from my home sweet home, Chicago, is hoping to live up to her last name and win that color medal when she gets to the Olympics this year. First she has to earn 1 of 3 spots available by competing in the US Figure Skating Championships. So far so good. A solid short skate put her 15 points ahead of the nearest competition. You can watch the championships this weekend on NBC from 2-5PM CST tomorrow and again at 7-10PM CST, and also on Sunday 2-4PM CST. In other figure skating news, Evan Lysacek is injured as has withdrawn from the Olympics. Other Olympic hopefuls include 2 time US Champ Ashley Wagner, US Bronze medalist Agnes Zawadzki, 2 time US Champ and 2010 Olympian Mirai Nagasu on the women's side, and reigning US Champ Max Aaron, 3 time US Champ and 2010 Olympian Jeremy Abbott, 2012 US Silver medalist Adam Rippon on the Men's side. Also, 2 time World Champs and 2010 Olympic Silver Medalist ice dancers Charlie White and Meryl Davis will also compete for a spot. Also, adorable ice dance siblings Maia and Alex Shibutani will be trying to a spot. They also enjoying making videos, look the up on Youtube under the name ShibSibs.
I watched some of the Short Track Speedskating US trials last weekend, and I have to say that I am looking forward to the US team competing in Sochi. Short track is one of my favorite sports in the Winter Olympics.
Ok, that about wraps up my info for today. I will continue to post updates leading up to the Games and then during the games I will give you a rundown everyday of the days events and cool stories. YAY OLYMPICS!
Monday, August 13, 2012
Day 17 and Closing Ceremony
Day 15, 16, 17 and Closing Ceremony
Ok, I am not going to lie guys. The closing ceremonies always make me super emotional, so I am going to try to get through this without being too gushy. I have missed the last couple days of posts because one of my good friends got married. So I apologize for that. Therefore, I am going to recap the last few days of events and awesomeness just for posterity's sake, and they I will recap the Closing Ceremony.
Day 15: Friday
Woman's BMX: Mariana Pajon of Columbia pulled out an upset over the favorites and won the Gold. New Zealand's Sarah Walker won the Silver and the Netherlands Laura Smulders won the Bronze. This event was awesome to watch. Sadly, British favorite Shanaze Reade was only able to pull off a 6th place finish in this final in front of her home country supporters.
Men's BMX: USA's Connor Fields took a spill in this final and came in 7th place. Latvia's Maris Strombergs won the Gold, Australia's Sam Willoughby won the Silver, and Columbia's Carlos Mario Oquendo Zabala won the Bronze.
Women's Field Hockey Final: The Netherlands won the Gold over Argentina 2-0. The Bronze medal was won by Team GB over New Zealand.
Women's 470 - Two-person Dinghy: New Zealand's Jo Aleh and Olivia Powrie won the Gold, Saskia Clark and Hannah Mills of Great Britain won the Silver, and Lisa Westerhof and Lobke Berkhout of the Netherlands won the Bronze.
Men's 470 - Two-person Dinghy: Belcher and Page of Australia won the Gold, Patience and Bithell of Great Britain won the Silver, and Calabrese and de la Fue of Argentina won the Bronze.
Men's Bronze Medal Match: South Korea beat Japan to win the Bronze.
Men's 10km Marathon: Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia won the Gold, Thomas Lurz of Germany won the Silver, and Richard Weinberger of Canada won the Bronze.
Team Final: Can I just say how exciting it was for me to be able to watch the full competition online since they refused to show any of it live during the day. Unsurprisingly, Russia won the Gold medal, because Russia is freaking awesome and totally dominant in synchro. China won the Silver with a beautiful butterfly themed routine and Spain took the Bronze with a sea monster themed routine. That one had a few weird moments, but was also really cool and had some of the coolest lifts I have ever seen.
Women's Welterweight: Kyung Seon Hwang of Korea won the Gold over Nur Tatar of Turkey. Paige Mcpherson of the US won one of the Bronze medals and Helena Fromm of Germany won the other.
Men's Welterweight: Sebastian Eduardo Crismanich of Argentina won the Gold over Nicolas Garcia Hemme of Spain. The Bronze medals went to Lutalo Muhammad of Great Britain and Mauro Sarmiento of Italy.
Men's Pole Vault: Renaud Lavillenie of France won the competition with an Olympic Record of 19'7". The Germans came 2-3 with Bjorn Otto winning the Silver and Raphael Holzdeppe winning the Bronze.
Women's Hammer Throw: Tatyana Lysenko of Russia won the Gold with an Olympic Record throw of 256' 6". Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland won the Silver and Betty Heidler of Germany won the Bronze.
Woman's 5000m: Meseret Defar of Ethiopia won the Gold, Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot of Kenya won the Silver, and Defar's countrymate Tirunesh Dibaba won the Bronze.
Women's 1500m: This event had one of the saddest moments I have seen in these Olympics as USA's Morgan Uceny was tripped during the last lap of this race and fell to the track. She stayed on track pounding the surface with her palms in anguish and then sobbing uncontrollably until the race was over. My heart just broke for her. In the end, Turkey went 1-2 with Asli Cakir Alptekin winning the Gold and Gamze Bulut winning the Silver, Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain won the Bronze.
Women's 4x100m Relay: THIS WAS AWESOME!! The USA women absolutely smashed the World Record with a time of 40.82 and won the Gold medal. It was amazing to watch. Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, and Carmelita Jeter made up the winning relay team. Team Jamaica won the Silver and Team Ukraine won the Bronze.
Men's 4x400m Relay: Team Bahamas picked up the Gold medal in this event, Team USA including Bryshon Nellum who recovered from being shot in a gang related shooting won the Silver, and Team Trinidad and Tobago won the Bronze. Bryshon Nellum also had the honor of being named as the Team USA flag bearer for the Closing Ceremony.
Men's Freestyle 55kg: Vladimer Khinchegashvili of Georgia won the Gold over Dzhamal Otarsultanov of Russia. Kyong Il Yang of North Korea and Shinichi Yumoto of Japan won the Bronze Medals.
Men's Freestyle 74kg: The man with Twitter handle @alliseeisgold, Jordan Ernest Burroughs, managed to see just that as he won the Gold medal match over Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi of Iran. The Bronzes went to Denis Tsargush of Russia and Sosian Tigiev of Uzbekistan.
Day 16: Saturday
Women's Final: The US women were as dominant as ever in their win over France to take the Gold medal. The Bronze went to Australia.
Ok, here we go....Lots of Boxing!
Men's Light Flyweight: Shiming Zou of China won the Gold over Kaeo Pongprayoon of Thailand. The Bronzes went to Paddy Barnes of Ireland and David Ayrapetyan of Russia.
Men's Bantamweight: Luke Campbell of Great Britain won the Gold over John Joe Nevin of Ireland.
The Bronzes went to Lazaro Alvarez Estrada of Cuba and Satoshi Shimizu of Japan.
Men's Light Welterweight: Roniel Iglesias Sontolongo of Cuba won the Gold over Denys Berinchyk of Ukraine. The Bronzes went to Vincenzo Mangiacapre of Italy and Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg of Mongolia.
Men's Middleweight: Ryota Murata of Japan won Gold over Esquiva Falcao Florentino of Brazil. The Bronzes went to Anthony Ogogo of Great Britain and Abbos Atoev of Uzbekistan.
Men's Heavyweight: Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine won the Gold over Clemente Russo of Italy. The Bronzes went to Tervel Pulev of Bulgaria and Teymur Mammadov of Azerbaijan.
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OK...I just saw how much I had left to cover and realized just how late it is. I am going to recap the rest tomorrow and do my more in depth Closing Ceremony coverage when I am less emotional about the whole thing. Night all!
Ok, I am not going to lie guys. The closing ceremonies always make me super emotional, so I am going to try to get through this without being too gushy. I have missed the last couple days of posts because one of my good friends got married. So I apologize for that. Therefore, I am going to recap the last few days of events and awesomeness just for posterity's sake, and they I will recap the Closing Ceremony.
Day 15: Friday
Men's BMX: USA's Connor Fields took a spill in this final and came in 7th place. Latvia's Maris Strombergs won the Gold, Australia's Sam Willoughby won the Silver, and Columbia's Carlos Mario Oquendo Zabala won the Bronze.
Men's 470 - Two-person Dinghy: Belcher and Page of Australia won the Gold, Patience and Bithell of Great Britain won the Silver, and Calabrese and de la Fue of Argentina won the Bronze.
Women's Welterweight: Kyung Seon Hwang of Korea won the Gold over Nur Tatar of Turkey. Paige Mcpherson of the US won one of the Bronze medals and Helena Fromm of Germany won the other.
Men's Welterweight: Sebastian Eduardo Crismanich of Argentina won the Gold over Nicolas Garcia Hemme of Spain. The Bronze medals went to Lutalo Muhammad of Great Britain and Mauro Sarmiento of Italy.
Women's Hammer Throw: Tatyana Lysenko of Russia won the Gold with an Olympic Record throw of 256' 6". Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland won the Silver and Betty Heidler of Germany won the Bronze.
Woman's 5000m: Meseret Defar of Ethiopia won the Gold, Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot of Kenya won the Silver, and Defar's countrymate Tirunesh Dibaba won the Bronze.
Women's 1500m: This event had one of the saddest moments I have seen in these Olympics as USA's Morgan Uceny was tripped during the last lap of this race and fell to the track. She stayed on track pounding the surface with her palms in anguish and then sobbing uncontrollably until the race was over. My heart just broke for her. In the end, Turkey went 1-2 with Asli Cakir Alptekin winning the Gold and Gamze Bulut winning the Silver, Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain won the Bronze.
Women's 4x100m Relay: THIS WAS AWESOME!! The USA women absolutely smashed the World Record with a time of 40.82 and won the Gold medal. It was amazing to watch. Tianna Madison, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, and Carmelita Jeter made up the winning relay team. Team Jamaica won the Silver and Team Ukraine won the Bronze.
Men's 4x400m Relay: Team Bahamas picked up the Gold medal in this event, Team USA including Bryshon Nellum who recovered from being shot in a gang related shooting won the Silver, and Team Trinidad and Tobago won the Bronze. Bryshon Nellum also had the honor of being named as the Team USA flag bearer for the Closing Ceremony.Men's Freestyle 74kg: The man with Twitter handle @alliseeisgold, Jordan Ernest Burroughs, managed to see just that as he won the Gold medal match over Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi of Iran. The Bronzes went to Denis Tsargush of Russia and Sosian Tigiev of Uzbekistan.Day 16: Saturday
Women's Final: The US women were as dominant as ever in their win over France to take the Gold medal. The Bronze went to Australia.
Men's Light Flyweight: Shiming Zou of China won the Gold over Kaeo Pongprayoon of Thailand. The Bronzes went to Paddy Barnes of Ireland and David Ayrapetyan of Russia.
Men's Bantamweight: Luke Campbell of Great Britain won the Gold over John Joe Nevin of Ireland.
The Bronzes went to Lazaro Alvarez Estrada of Cuba and Satoshi Shimizu of Japan.
Men's Light Welterweight: Roniel Iglesias Sontolongo of Cuba won the Gold over Denys Berinchyk of Ukraine. The Bronzes went to Vincenzo Mangiacapre of Italy and Munkh-Erdene Uranchimeg of Mongolia.
Men's Middleweight: Ryota Murata of Japan won Gold over Esquiva Falcao Florentino of Brazil. The Bronzes went to Anthony Ogogo of Great Britain and Abbos Atoev of Uzbekistan.
Men's Heavyweight: Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine won the Gold over Clemente Russo of Italy. The Bronzes went to Tervel Pulev of Bulgaria and Teymur Mammadov of Azerbaijan.
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OK...I just saw how much I had left to cover and realized just how late it is. I am going to recap the rest tomorrow and do my more in depth Closing Ceremony coverage when I am less emotional about the whole thing. Night all!
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Day 14
Ok, quick rundown today, because absolutely have to wake up in the morning.
Today's Medal Winning Events
Women's Flyweight: Nicola Adams of Great Britain won the Gold over Cancan Reri of China. Reri beat USA's Marlen Esparaza in the semi final (You know, the girl who is on all the McDonald's commericals). Esparaza picked up a Bronze medal for Team USA and the other Bronze went to Chungneijang Mery Kom Hmangte (Say that five times fast) of India.Women's Lightweight: Katie Taylor of Ireland won the Gold over Sofya Ochigava of Russia. The Bronzes went to Mavzuna Chorieva of Tajikistan and Adriana Araujo of Brazil.
Women's Middleweight: Claressa Shields of USA won Gold over Nadezda Torlopova of Russia. The Bronzes went to Marina Volhova of Kazakhstan and Jinzi Li of China.
Men's Kayak Fours: Team Australia won the Gold, Team Hungary the Silver, and Team Czech Republic came away with the Bronze.
Women's Kayak Singles: Danuta Kozak of Hungary won the Gold, Inna Osypenko-Radomska of Ukraine won the Silver, and Bridgitte Hartley of South Africa won the Bronze.
Women's Kayak Doubles: Germany's Tina Dietze and Franziska Weber won the Gold, Hungary's Natasa Douchev-Janic won the Silver, and Poland's Beate Mikolajczyk and Karolina Naja won the Bronze.
Men's Featherweight: Servet Tazegul of Turkey won the Gold over Mohammad Bagheri Motamed of Iran. The Bronzes went to Terrence Jennings of the USA and Rohullah Nikpah of Afghanistan.Men's Triple Jump: USA went 1-2 with Christian Taylor picking up the Gold and Will Claye picking up the Silver. Fabrizio Donato of Italy won the Bronze.
Men's 800m: Kenya's David Lekuts Rudisha won the Gold, Botswana's Nijel Amos won the Silver, and Kenya also picked up the Bronze with Timothy Kitum coming in third.
Men's 200m: Jamaica went 1-2-3. Wow!!! Of course, the King, Usain Bolt, won the race and looked easy doing it. I wish he would finish strong. I feel like this guy could have some major world records if he would only properly finish his races. That is something that annoys me about him. He has so much talent and potential, and he is just wasting it by not leaving everything out on the track every time he runs. Anyways, rant over. Johan Blake won the Silver and Warren Weir won the Bronze.
Women's Javelin Throw: Czech Republic's Barbora Spotakova won the Gold and Germany went 2-3 with Christina Obergfoll picking up the Silver and Linda Stahl picking up the Bronze.
Men's Decathlon: These men, without a doubt, are the most fit men in the entire world. USA went 1-2 in this event with Ashton Eaton winning the Gold and Trey Hardee winning the Silver. Leonel Suarez of Cuba won the Bronze. I think this would also kill me, well....duh.
Women's Freestyle 72kg: Natalia Vorobeva of Russia won Gold over Stanka Zlateva Hristova of Bulgaria. The Bronzes went to Guzel Manyurova of Kazakhstan and Maider Unda Gonzalez de Audicana of Spain (Wow!)
Tomorrow's Medal Winning Events:
Women and Men's BMX Finals.
WATCH THIS...ITS AWESOME!
Women's Final:
Argentina vs the Netherlands
Bronze:
Great Britain vs. New Zealand
Men's 470 - Two-person Dinghy
Women's 470 - Two-person Dinghy
Men's Bronze Medal Match
Japan vs South Korea
Men's 10km Marathon
Team Final
I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH THIS!!! Russia is really really awesome
Women and Men's Welterweight
Men's Pole Vault
Women's Hammer Throw
Women's 5000m: Molly Huddle and Julie Culley compete
Women's 4x100m Relay: WATCH THIS!
Women's 1500m: Shannon Rowbury and Morgan Uceny compete
Men's 4x400m Relay: Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee, will compete here for Team South Africa...a must watch event.
Men's Freestyle 55kg
Men's Freestyle 74 kg
And this is what she wrote folks:
USA 39 25 26
: 90
China 37 24 19
: 80
Great Britain 25 13
14 : 52
Russia
12 21
23 : 56
Germany
10 16
11 : 37
Japan 5 14 14 : 33
Japan 5 14 14 : 33
France 8 9 12
: 29
Australia
6 13
10 : 29
I refuse to put GB in fourth place even though they have less total medals than Russia, they have twice as many Golds and deserve to be higher.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Day 13
Day 13:
Caster Semenya, the South African runner who was the subject of a very public gender testing three years ago after her fantastic results in competition, makes her Olympic debut in the 800m prelims.
Sarah Attar ran for Saudi Arabia today in the prelims of the 800m. She is the first woman to compete in track and field for Saudi Arabia. She came in 43 seconds behind the heat's winner, but she is a winner anyways for representing the typically repressed female population of her country.
Today's Medal Winning Events:
THEY WON THEY WON THEY WON THEY WON THEY WON!!!!
In case you have no idea what I am talking about (but you should because I have mentioned them quite frequently), Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor won the Gold medal match vs. their Team USA competitors Jennifer Kesey and April Ross. This was their last Olympic match together and it was a great one. I am so glad that they won their third Gold. They are such wonderful, genuine people and it makes me happy every time they win. I wonder who is going to take their place now.
The Brazilians Juliana Silva and Larissa Franca won their Bronze medal match over Chen Xue and Xi Zhang of China.
Men's Kayak Singles: Eirik Veras Larsen of Norway won Gold, Adam van Koeverden of Canada won Silver, and Max Hoff of Germany won the Bronze.
Men's Canoe Singles: Germany's Sebastian Brendel won the Gold medal, David Cal Figueroa of Spain won Silver, and Canada's Mark Oldershaw.
Men's Kayak Doubles 1000M: Hungary's Roland Kokeny and Rudolf Dombi won Gold, Portugal's Emanuel Silva and Fernando Pimenta won Silver, and Germany's Andreas Ihle and Martin Hollstein.
Women's Kayak Fours: Team Hungary won the Gold, Team Germany won the Silver, and Team Belarus won the Bronze.
Individual Jumping: Switzerland's Steve Guerdat won the Gold medal, ending an 88 year drought for Switzerland in Show Jumping. Gerco Schroder of the Netherlands won the Silver and Cian O'Connor of Ireland won the Bronze, picking up the first medal of these Games for Ireland.
Men's 49er - Skiff: Australia's Iain Jensen and Nathan Outteridge won the Gold, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke of New Zealand won the Silver, and Peter Lang and Allan Norregaard of Denmark won the Bronze
Men's Team Final: China picked up the Gold (we didn't see that one coming), South Korea picked up the Silver, and Germany picked up the Bronze.
Men's Flyweight: Joel Gonzalez Bonilla of Spain won the Gold over Daehoon Lee of Korea. The Bronzes went to Alexey Denisenko of Russia and Oscar Munoz Oviedo of Columbia.
Women's Long Jump: USA's Brittany Reese, who just missed the Gold in Bejing, came away with the Gold this time with a jump of 23' 4 1/4". Elena Sokolova of Russia won the Silver, and Janay Deloach also of the US won the Bronze.
Women's 400m Hurdles: Lashinda Demus just missed the Gold in this event, coming up 7/100ths of a second slower than the winner Natalya Antyukh of Russia. She has vowed to come back until she wins the Gold. The Bronze went to Zizana Hejnova of the Czech Republic.
Women's 200m: Lots of amazing American runners in this event and they didn't disappoint. Allyson Felix finally got the Gold medal she had been working so hard for. The 100m winner, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica came across the line with the Silver. USA's Carmelita Jeter came across the line, just beating the defending champ Veronica Campbell-Brown from Jamaica. Sanya Richards-Ross came 5th.
Men's 110m Hurdles: USA went 1-2 in this event with Aries Merritt taking the Gold and Jason Richardson winning the Silver. Jamaica's Hansle Parchment won the Bronze.
Women's Freestyle 48 kg: Hitomi Obara of Japan won the Gold, Mariya Stadnyk of Azerbaijan won the Silver, and the two Bronze went to Carol Huynh of Canada and Clarissa Kyoko Mei Ling Chun of the USA.
Women's Freestyle 63 kg: Kaori Icho of Japan won the Gold, Ruixue Jing of China won the Silver, and the Bronzes went to Battsetseg Soronzonbold of Mongolia and Lubov Volosova of Russia.
Tomorrow's Medal Winning Events:
Today's Final Medal Count:
Caster Semenya, the South African runner who was the subject of a very public gender testing three years ago after her fantastic results in competition, makes her Olympic debut in the 800m prelims.
Today's Medal Winning Events:
THEY WON THEY WON THEY WON THEY WON THEY WON!!!!
In case you have no idea what I am talking about (but you should because I have mentioned them quite frequently), Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor won the Gold medal match vs. their Team USA competitors Jennifer Kesey and April Ross. This was their last Olympic match together and it was a great one. I am so glad that they won their third Gold. They are such wonderful, genuine people and it makes me happy every time they win. I wonder who is going to take their place now.
The Brazilians Juliana Silva and Larissa Franca won their Bronze medal match over Chen Xue and Xi Zhang of China.
Men's Canoe Singles: Germany's Sebastian Brendel won the Gold medal, David Cal Figueroa of Spain won Silver, and Canada's Mark Oldershaw.
Men's Kayak Doubles 1000M: Hungary's Roland Kokeny and Rudolf Dombi won Gold, Portugal's Emanuel Silva and Fernando Pimenta won Silver, and Germany's Andreas Ihle and Martin Hollstein.
Women's Kayak Fours: Team Hungary won the Gold, Team Germany won the Silver, and Team Belarus won the Bronze.
(Taekwondo)
Women's Flyweight: Jingyu Wu of China won the Gold over Brigitte Yague of Spain. The Bronze medals went to Chanatip Sonkham of Thailand and Lucija Zaninovic of Croatia.Men's Flyweight: Joel Gonzalez Bonilla of Spain won the Gold over Daehoon Lee of Korea. The Bronzes went to Alexey Denisenko of Russia and Oscar Munoz Oviedo of Columbia.
Lot's of medals for the US today in Track and Field!
Women's Long Jump: USA's Brittany Reese, who just missed the Gold in Bejing, came away with the Gold this time with a jump of 23' 4 1/4". Elena Sokolova of Russia won the Silver, and Janay Deloach also of the US won the Bronze.
Women's 200m: Lots of amazing American runners in this event and they didn't disappoint. Allyson Felix finally got the Gold medal she had been working so hard for. The 100m winner, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica came across the line with the Silver. USA's Carmelita Jeter came across the line, just beating the defending champ Veronica Campbell-Brown from Jamaica. Sanya Richards-Ross came 5th.
Men's 110m Hurdles: USA went 1-2 in this event with Aries Merritt taking the Gold and Jason Richardson winning the Silver. Jamaica's Hansle Parchment won the Bronze.
Women's Freestyle 48 kg: Hitomi Obara of Japan won the Gold, Mariya Stadnyk of Azerbaijan won the Silver, and the two Bronze went to Carol Huynh of Canada and Clarissa Kyoko Mei Ling Chun of the USA.
Women's Freestyle 63 kg: Kaori Icho of Japan won the Gold, Ruixue Jing of China won the Silver, and the Bronzes went to Battsetseg Soronzonbold of Mongolia and Lubov Volosova of Russia.
Tomorrow's Medal Winning Events:
Men's Final: Gold medal match Brazil vs. Germany, and Bronze medal match Latvia vs the Netherlands.
The US men were defeated and will not compete for a medal.
Women's Flyweight
Women's Lightweight
Women's Middleweight
Men's Canoe Doubles
Men's Kayak Fours 1000m
Women's Kayak Singles
Women's Kayak Doubles
Women's 10m Platform
Individual Dressage: Jan Ebeling and Adrienne Lyle compete
Men's 470 - Two-person Dinghy
WOMEN'S GOLD MEDAL MATCH!!
USA VS JAPAN
REMATCH at 1:45 PM CST
Bronze Medal Match Canada vs France at 7:00AM
Women's 10km Marathon: Haley Anderson competes.
Women and Men's Lightweight
Men's Triple Jump: Christian Taylor and Will Claye compete
Men's 800m: Duane Solomon and Nick Symmonds compete
Men's 200m: Wallace Spearmon goes up against Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake for a medal in this event.
Women's Javelin Throw
Women's Gold Medal Match
USA vs Spain
Bronze Medal Match:
Australia vs. Hungary
Women's Freestyle 55 kg
Women's Freestyle 72 kg
Today's Final Medal Count:
USA 34 22 25
: 81
China 36 22 19
: 77
Great Britain 22 13
13 : 48
Russia
11 19
22 : 52
Germany
7 15
10 : 32
Japan 4 13 14 : 31
Japan 4 13 14 : 31
France 8 9 11
: 28
Australia
5 12
9 : 26
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