*spoiler* Short track- Women's relay

[lucid]

Women's 3000m relay-
Silver!
An exciting race... and a good day for Canada so far. With this medal, we surpass our total from SLC '02.

[@theCBE]

Good race, gutsy and aggressive effort from the women to take the silver

Without the women Canada would be having a terrible Olympics

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by @theCBE

Without the women Canada would be having a terrible Olympics

No doubt about that. Outside of the two guys in Skeleton and Leuders have any Canadian men won a medal?

Thank god Europeans make their women stay home to make meals, and raise kids instead of letting them go out to become athletes.

[JiriHrdina]

At the end of the day this will go down as an OK olympics, the men's hockey team notwithstanding.

You basically have two factors in terms of olympic success.

1. Sending a team with a number of realistic medal opportunities as opposed to relying on upsets/surprises to get your hardware
2. Conversion of those opportunities into medals

We had a great team with regards to #1. I can't recall another olympics where we had so many chances to win.

However, we did not do well with #2. If we can convert more of our chances into medals, then we'd really start to make some noise.

[OILFAN #81]

Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

No doubt about that. Outside of the two guys in Skeleton and Leuders have any Canadian men won a medal?

Thank god Europeans make their women stay home to make meals, and raise kids instead of letting them go out to become athletes.

We won a silver in men's team pursuit as well and Jeffrey Buttle won a bronze in figure skating.

[Sylvanfan]

Originally Posted by OILFAN #81

We won a silver in men's team pursuit as well and Jeffrey Buttle won a bronze in figure skating.

You're counting Buttle as a man?

Actually I gotta give Buttle props for coming back from being dead and burried to get a medal. It takes guts to screw up that bad in the first lag of a two part competition and fight your way back.