Olympic Medals for Canada! Gold, Silver and Bronze!

Gold, Silver and Bronze! Finally!

Great going!

Congratulations to Carol HUYNH with gold medal for women’s wrestling in freestyle 48 kg category,

Congratulations to David CALDER and Scott FRANDSEN with silver medal for men’s pair in rowing,

Congratulations to Tonya VERBEEK with bronze medal for women’s wrestling in freestyle 55 kg category!

Congratulations to all Canadians!

I think there’s more to come!

Canada at XXIX summer Olympics at Beijing

What is happening to the Canadian Olympics team? So far the score is perfect for Canada: 0 – 0 – 0 : 0. That’s the best thing you can wish for in biathlon. But hey! Wait a minute, that’s not right, that’s medals!

Canada hasn’t yet won a single medal! It’s been 6 days without a medal now! Not even close (well, a couple of times… that doesn’t count because it still wasn’t close, really…). What’s with all that Canadian Olympics spirit? Where is it hiding? Let us help you find!

But even so, I cannot blame the athletes: they are trully doing the best they can and trying to show that Canada has some athleticism in the country. What does bother me is the small number of athletes that Canada has sent to the Olympics. How can we win anything when there’s just too few of us?

In any case, let’s hope that we get on the right track and we figure out a way to start receiving medals. I hope that, if this Olympiad becomes a disaster (which it is very likely to), it will shook the Canadian Olympic Committee really well.

Here’s some things that there’s still hope for:

• Baseball. The top competitors are Canada and the States, but some other countries (like Cuba, for example) have been doing really well in the past. But I think the (boring) MLB will pay off and Canada will get a medal there (may be even a gold)
• Rowing.
  1. Men’s Pair: Calder and Frandsen. They have gotten into the final, which will be on August 16th. let’s hope. They’ve shown some really strong effort along the road.
  2. Women’s Eight: Mandoli, et alii. Great effort to get into the final (Aug 17), but the competition is tough.
  3. Men’s Eight: Light, et alii. They have been strong all the way through, so I’ve got large hopes for them. Now they’ll be competing in the final on Aug 17.
• Softball Same as with baseball. I think we’re already in the medals, but will cross that bridge when we get there.
• Swimming
  1. Men’s 200m Breaststroke, Brown. He is in the top competitors, so he’s got a really good shot at a medal. The final is starting in about 20 minutes.
  2. Men’s 200m Backstroke, Oriwol, Beavers. Both have gotten into the semifinals (Aug 14). May be…
  3. Men’s 200m Individual Medly, Beavers has gotten into the semifinals, also on Aug 14.
  4. Women’s 200m Breaststroke, Pierse has advanced to the semifinals, Aug 14.

Other competitions follow, but we have to see these ones first.

On the side note, I cannot not mention my admiration to what Michael Phelps has already achieved. 5 gold medals! Absolutely mind-bottling!