orangeman

I disagree. My only argument is GOLD FOR CANADA!!! But think that's a pretty solid argument.

She may be injured though. Good looking first run (before she went down).

Chan comes through, gold virtually guaranteed for Canada now!

Canada takes 3 to go ahead 8-4 after 7!

Big mistake by the Norwegians in the 5th, 5-2 Canada!

Me too. Lawes just missed an easy point (again). 3-2 Canada, but not really looking good.

There's enough talent to end up on the podium, and anything can happen in a sport like this. With so many in the final and no qualifying, it'll be a wide open final. Which is delayed now.

Oh right. Then just hand over the gold medal already.

Don't want to jinx it, and I'm not being cocky, but given the skaters I think the gold is Canada's to lose now. The only place OAR can make serious gains is in women's and maybe pairs (doubtful). Men's should be fine given their lack of star power. And ice dance, well, we have a Hulk (Virtue and Moir).

Out at the bar with an American friend watching and he randomly picks the "French one" and the "Cool looking green one" while I, in my infinite knowledge of the sport go with my Canadian girls. He ends up with gold and bronze, me silver. Congrats to all involved, it was a high performance final!

Still a...chance...maybe...

Canada has a good shot at Big Air, too. I think we're all just a little sensitive after the judging in 2014. Like in any judged sport, there can be debate this time around, but the gold medal winner isn't a joke like it was last time.

BLOEMEN! Silver by 0.002 seconds. Crazy!

Nice! Is that your own pic?

Bloemen! Kramer looked like he was out for a Sunday stroll in the park.

Congrats Norway!

Come on Alex!

I'm from a city in Canada where the greats have trained, worked in the arena where they put on shows all the time. I have seen my share of figure skating. Gold medals make everything more enjoyable, though.

I'm more hopeful for him in the 15km and 50km. But anything is possible.

Shhhhhh! It gives Canada a great shot at gold.

Yeah, I know China should be CNY or whatever, but I'm lazy.

In other news, Canada finishes 1st in mixed curling. Will play either NOR or CHI in the semis. I guess we should hope for CHI, but I think CAN is on a roll now.

I personally agree that the three on the podium deserve to be there. I think an argument could be made about the order, but honestly my picture wasn't the best and I don't know the technicalities of the sport inside out. Congrats to Red for gold, sincerely.

We can say if Touts would have landed his last run it could have been a sweep, but the judges in this event seem to always want a certain country on top. I'm not sure if any Canadian could have made up for that. I'm not as upset as after this final 4 years ago when the American didn't deserve to be anywhere near the podium. This time, it was a lot closer and debatable.

I don't want to come off as a sore loser, but yeah "generous" might be a good word. I mean, if the stars aligned Canada could have potentially swept this event. But in this type of sport and with judges, it's a bit of a crapshoot. Two medals is good, although would have obviously preferred gold. Parrot put down probably the best run in the final position in 2014 and finished 5th, so I'm just glad the judges were a bit more, uh, real, this time around.