Winter Olympic Medal Count: 1.DE, 2.USA, 3.CAN
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Levy wrote: MikeQ. wrote: Levy wrote: Neostorm wrote: Klassen better be the flag carrier during the closing ceremonies  for leaving her team in the pursuit event alone, so she could win gold for herself? Not a good representative for a country... Huh? What are you talking about? Klassen was on the women's team pursuit for Canada. They won silver. PEACE, Mike. She bowed out of the final against germany, so she wasn't to exhausted to win medals for herself. That's one reason why Anni Friesinger, who participated in three of the four pursuit races was behind her in the single events. Oh I didn't know that! Canada may have been able to win gold then  Oh well she still skated before and she's still great
Greater than Friesinger  *hides*
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I didn't know China is getting really good at freestyle. A silver yesterday in women, and a gold today in men. That's pretty cool.
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Emily Hughes got passed by the Canadian skater. Final group to go, and Sasha Cohen will be No. 2 to skate out of the six.
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Hmm, from the score, look like Sasha didn't skate her best. The program component score is great as expected, but the technical element is only 55.22 with 1 point deduction, meaning one jump wasn't a complete success.
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CNN says Cohen fell on her first jump...
Uh-oh.
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There's an upset coming gooooooooo Kimmie.
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USA Today's blog said Sasha didn't have a good warmup either.
2004 World Champion Arakawa just passed her with a score of 125.32.
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Dkmuto
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Go Japan.
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Dkmuto
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Looks like it may even be possible for the other American to sneak into medal contention.
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Kimmie skated worse, and Sasha is assured of a medal. Only Slutskaya to go.
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Dkmuto wrote: CNN says Cohen fell on her first jump...
Uh-oh. was hoping that wouldn't happen .... but thought it might.
bummer.
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Wow, Sasha ends up with a silver after Slutskaya fell as well. Congrats to Arakawa, who, according to USA Today's blog, skated a flawless routine.
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xiayun wrote: Wow, Sasha ends up with a silver after Slutskaya fell as well. Congrats to Arakawa, who, according to USA Today's blog, skated a flawless routine. HOLY SHIT! 
i figured Kimmie might steal Sasha's medal.
too bad for Slutskaya. this time she beat herself.
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Dkmuto
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GO JAPAN!
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Just curious, who gives a crap about the total number of medals? Only the gold really counts.
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Dkmuto
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On last night's coverage they had some commentator speculation and they were all like, "It's possible that the top three could all skate flawless routines, and this could be down to the wire..."
But looks like it was pretty much the opposite.
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After the Short Program:
1. Sasha Cohen
2. Irina Slutskaya
3. Shizuka Arakawa
After the Free Program:
1. Shizuka Arakawa
2. Sasha Cohen
3. Irina Slutskaya
Is that correct Xia?
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That's correct.
Somehow I wonder how Michelle could've done if she hadn't been injured. Unlike 1998 or 2002, where someone skated her best to take the gold, this year was more about who made the fewest mistakes. Even Arakawa didn't do a triple-triple that she normally does and changed it to a triple-double. The gold was certainly there for the taking. But I do enjoy the fresh energy that Hughes and Kimmie brought, and they performed well given the lack of experience.
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If only Kwan wasn't injured  FUCK!
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funny this is similar to 2002 - Sarah Hughes, USA, jumped from 5th place, if I remember, to 1st as everyone before her fell or made a mistake.
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Goldie wrote: funny this is similar to 2002 - Sarah Hughes, USA, jumped from 5th place, if I remember, to 1st as everyone before her fell or made a mistake. I'd say it's not exactly the same. Hughes was quite further behind in 2002, while Arakawa was within 1 point of the lead after the short program. We could consider the top 3 were virtually tied going into the free skate, and their names were pretty much mentioned together when analysts analyzed the race, so it wasn't a big upset as it was in 2002. Arakawa got a little bit less press because her name wasn't as familiar as the other two, but she was a world champion. Sarah Hughes, on the other hand, was only a bronze medalist at the world championship before her stunning performance in the Olympics, where she nailed six triples. _________________Recent watched movies: American Hustle - B+ Inside Llewyn Davis - B Before Midnight - A 12 Years a Slave - A- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - A- My thoughts on box office
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 xiayun wrote: Goldie wrote: funny this is similar to 2002 - Sarah Hughes, USA, jumped from 5th place, if I remember, to 1st as everyone before her fell or made a mistake. I'd say it's not exactly the same. Hughes was quite further behind in 2002, while Arakawa was within 1 point of the lead after the short program. We could consider the top 3 were virtually tied going into the free skate, and their names were pretty much mentioned together when analysts analyzed the race, so it wasn't a big upset as it was in 2002. Arakawa got a little bit less press because her name wasn't as familiar as the other two, but she was a world champion. Sarah Hughes, on the other hand, was only a bronze medalist at the world championship before her stunning performance in the Olympics, where she nailed six triple-triple combinations. Just FYI - no insult intended - just saying that usually the top leaders needed to make that mistake before the the ones under them could pass them > unless of course everyone was mistake free and they just beat them.
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#1 is pretty certain now, but the #2-5 countries are really close to each other. Canada will definitely get either a silver or gold tomorrow, so it could move up.
1 Germany 52
2 United States 42
3 Austria 41
4 Russia 38
5 Canada 37
6 Norway 30
7 Switzerland 27
8 Sweden 23
9 South Korea 19
10 Italy 18
11 France 17
12 China 16
13 Netherlands 13
14 Finland 9
15 Estonia 9
16 Croatia 7
17 Australia 4
18 Czech Republic 4
19 Japan 3
20 Ukraine 2
21 Belarus 2
21 Bulgaria 2
21 Great Britain 2
21 Slovakia 2
25 Latvia 1
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Poor Latvia.
They had two athletes, right? 
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Do Great Britain and Japan always suck this bad at the winter games??
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