1) Well, quite a mixed feelings from our performances, in one side the best winter Olympics in the history since the independence in other very poor results of the majority of our athletes in Beijing.
2) Better than expected for sure.
3)
Highlight
Ice Hockey Madness and the Slaf show
Ups
a) Petra Vlhová amazing mental strength and fighting in that Slalom 2nd run.
b) Paja Fialková 10th in Pursuit and another top 15 in Sprint,
c) her sister Ivona with very good skiing.
d) Viki čerňanská very solid effort in Monobob from the youngest athlete in the field
e) Special mention: Klaudia Medlová despite injury before the Slopestyle showed incredible fighting spirit and respect to the Olympics by her desire to start at the Games at least in Big Air where she risked maybe the end of her career but still was exremely close to qualify for the final
Downs:
a) Mens Biathlon - all 4 slow, miserable shooting, piss poor performances, overall complete embarassement not worthy of the Olympics (the top of the cake was not qualifying anyone to the pursuit in a reduced Olympic field is just utter embarassement)
b) womens cross-country skiing, useless to say anything here, was complete misery
c) but the biggest disappointement of the games was the luge doubles Vaverčák/Zmij fucking up the Luge relay to the whole team some 10 meters from the finish line and throwing away a possible top 10 maybe top 8 and consequently money help for their teammates.
4) and now for the most emotional, most positive and most of the most thing of the games for me, my neighbors, my countrymen, my nation ...
I guess it is useless to write her what that ice hockey medal (first ever team sport medal btw...) means for us. Since Saturday the life in the country is completely upside down
In the TV news we have a clockdown going on --- counting the time remaining for the return of our hockey team to Slovakia, now it is 17 hours and 50 minutes to landing. so just to say ...
More to come tomorrow evening, stay tuned
for now, just Mondays newspaper first pages..