JoshMartini007

In the end China performed similarly to South Korea at the Olympics so I would say the disaster was avoided.

Canada may be the favourite, but defensively we haven't been the greatest which the United States could exploit to win.

Thanks to yesterday's snowstorm, only four medals up for grab today. We are in a great position to win a medal in women's monobob and have an outside chance in women's aerials. The day is still eventful as it has the beginning stages for 2-men bobsled, women's slopestyle and both men's and women's snowboard big air along with the women's ice hockey semi-final.

Yeah, I imagine "what to do with a DNF" must be in the rule book so the confusion wouldn't have taken that long. A protest was more likely.

Yes, they only do one race.
 
Hope we can convert more South American roller skaters into speed skaters

We’ve reached the half way point at the Olympics and Canada currently sits at 13 medals. Going into the games I predicted 24 medals and split them into six categories. Let’s take a look at how they are doing.
 
Freestyle Skiing – 2/5 medals
Overall Canada is on pace to achieve this goal. Most of the medals in this event, including the ones Canada is favoured in are in the second week. If things go our way, we may even surpass my prediction.
 
Snowboarding – 5/5 medals
Mission accomplished with the two big air events remaining. We can still win 1-2 more medals which would help compensate the other sports should they fall short.
 
Short Track – 2/4 medals
Such an unpredictable sport. We could win medals in all four remaining events or win none. I don’t think we will be unlucky enough to go 0 for 4, but we may need a little luck to win two more medals.
 
Speed Skating – 2/4 medals
I had such high hopes for this event, but losing out in the men’s 500m will make things a bit tough. The women’s team pursuit is in a good position for a medal, but a fourth one will be harder to find. We’ll see how the men’s team pursuit performs later today, if not it would have to be in women’s mass start, but Blondin didn’t look too good in women’s 3000m and missed the 5000m race altogether.
 
Curling/Ice Hockey – 0/3 medals
Team sports have not been good for Canada. Losing mixed doubles curling meant the other curling teams and men’s ice hockey would have to be near-perfect and none of them are making a strong claim for a medal. There’s still a lot of games to be played, but a huge turnaround for two of them is required. The women’s ice hockey team should easily contribute to the total.
 
Other Sports – 2/3 medals
Medals in alpine skiing and ski jumping have made this goal much easier to attain. Our bobsled team should be able to win at least one medal, possibly even more which can help compensate the other sports. More medals in other sports will be unlikely.
 
Our best chance would be if the whole team figure skating fiasco gets settled prior to the end of the games (which could happen since there’s a push to get things finished before the women’s singles event) and Canada gets upgraded to a bronze. After that we could luck our way into the alpine skiing mixed team podium or if you really want to push it, the men’s pursuit in biathlon or women’s singles in figure skating (would likely need the entire ROC team to either not participate or mentally breakdown due to the add scrutiny).

We’ve reached the half way point at the Olympics and Canada currently sits at 13 medals. Going into the games I predicted 24 medals and split them into six categories. Let’s take a look at how they are doing.
 
Freestyle Skiing – 2/5 medals
Overall Canada is on pace to achieve this goal. Most of the medals in this event, including the ones Canada is favoured in are in the second week. If things go our way, we may even surpass my prediction.
 
Snowboarding – 5/5 medals
Mission accomplished with the two big air events remaining. We can still win 1-2 more medals which would help compensate the other sports should they fall short.
 
Short Track – 2/4 medals
Such an unpredictable sport. We could win medals in all four remaining events or win none. I don’t think we will be unlucky enough to go 0 for 4, but we may need a little luck to win two more medals.
 
Speed Skating – 2/4 medals
I had such high hopes for this event, but losing out in the men’s 500m will make things a bit tough. The women’s team pursuit is in a good position for a medal, but a fourth one will be harder to find. We’ll see how the men’s team pursuit performs later today, if not it would have to be in women’s mass start, but Blondin didn’t look too good in women’s 3000m and missed the 5000m race altogether.
 
Curling/Ice Hockey – 0/3 medals
Team sports have not been good for Canada. Losing mixed doubles curling meant the other curling teams and men’s ice hockey would have to be near-perfect and none of them are making a strong claim for a medal. There’s still a lot of games to be played, but a huge turnaround for two of them is required. The women’s ice hockey team should easily contribute to the total.
 
Other Sports – 2/3 medals
Medals in alpine skiing and ski jumping have made this goal much easier to attain. Our bobsled team should be able to win at least one medal, possibly even more which can help compensate the other sports. More medals in other sports will be unlikely.
 
Our best chance would be if the whole team figure skating fiasco gets settled prior to the end of the games (which could happen since there’s a push to get things finished before the women’s singles event) and Canada gets upgraded to a bronze. After that we could luck our way into the alpine skiing mixed team podium or if you really want to push it, the men’s pursuit in biathlon or women’s singles in figure skating (would likely need the entire ROC team to either not participate or mentally breakdown due to the add scrutiny).

Yup a couple of good medal opportunities today in mixed snowboard cross and men's 500m speed skating, still holding out hope in women's skeleton, but she pretty much needs two first place finishes in order to have a chance at a medal. Ice dance begins today, but given our performance in the team event, a medal is now unlikely. Also a big match in ice hockey which will likely determine the group winner.

Yup a couple of good medal opportunities today in mixed snowboard cross and men's 500m speed skating, still holding out hope in women's skeleton, but she pretty much needs two first place finishes in order to have a chance at a medal. Ice dance begins today, but given our performance in the team event, a medal is now unlikely. Also a big match in ice hockey which will likely determine the group winner.

Final Thoughts
 
Overall a great day for Canada, we won a medal in almost all of our realistic chances, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes. The lack of gold medals is a bit concerning, but there is still a lot to go. We also won all of our curling matches and the men's ice hockey team seems to be in good form

Final Thoughts
 
Overall a great day for Canada, we won a medal in almost all of our realistic chances, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes. The lack of gold medals is a bit concerning, but there is still a lot to go. We also won all of our curling matches and the men's ice hockey team seems to be in good form

Final Thoughts
 
Overall a great day for Canada, we won a medal in almost all of our realistic chances, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes. The lack of gold medals is a bit concerning, but there is still a lot to go. We also won all of our curling matches and the men's ice hockey team seems to be in good form

Final Thoughts
 
Overall a great day for Canada, we won a medal in almost all of our realistic chances, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes. The lack of gold medals is a bit concerning, but there is still a lot to go. We also won all of our curling matches and the men's ice hockey team seems to be in good form

Seems like Canada is having one of those "no golds allowed" Olympics
 
We are tied with Austria and Norway with 12 medals, but are 12th on the medal table

Final thoughts
 
Good day for Canada, winning two medals. Short track went as well as short track can go while our men's team picked up its first win in curling.

Final thoughts
 
Good day for Canada, winning two medals. Short track went as well as short track can go while our men's team picked up its first win in curling.

Honestly, I think it's because combined is slowly being killed/phased off. The lack of World Cup events will do that.

I assume the offending athlete's point total will be zeroed, meaning Russia would still have 55+ points if one of the non-female singles disciplines were to be removed which would allow them to finish ahead of Canada.

Haha, judges gave six 69s for his final gold medal jump

Also since we are about a quarter of the way through let's see how Canada is doing. I predicted 24 medals and I broke them down into 6 groups...
 
Freestyle Skiing - 1/5
Snowboarding - 2/5
Short Track - 1/4
Speed Skating - 1/4
Curling/Ice Hockey - 0/3
Others - 1/3
 
Nothing to worry so far. Losing mixed doubles curling leaves little room for error, hopefully our curling teams and men's ice hockey team has it in them. With figure skating looking to produce 0 medals, ski jumping has helped out the others category. Bobsled will be relied upon for the other two medals unless skeleton or one of the other sports produces another surprise.

Kingsbury was too slow, but I thought his technique was better...

Kingsbury was too slow, but I thought his technique was better...

Beating Italy in the women's singles is very doable, the bigger issue is Georgia who could leapfrog everyone.

The calm before the storm. Big day for the figure skating team while our mixed doubles curlers face another two tough opponents.

I wasn't able to watch the women's moguls, hopefully things go better during the medal rounds.