2010 Vancouver Olympics 2/14/10

Alright, so with yesterday's events completed, here are your highlights.
In paires figure skating, Chinese pair Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo left the ice with a smile on their face, taking first to end the day with a final score of 76.66.
Second and third fall close behind, as Germans Robin Szolkowy, and Aliona Savchenko clenh second for the day, and the Russian couple of Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov take third, at about two points below first.
USA taking the tenth spot, and Canada taking the 6th spot.

Now over Men's normal hill nordic, where America did get a meddle with Johnny Spillane, who clenched silver, and was four tenths of a second away from gold, where Frenchman Jason Lamy Chappuis took it away. Bronze went to Italian Alessandro Pittin.

Now over in Women's speedskating where Martina Sablikova of the Czech took gold by about two seconds, giving silver to Stephanie Beckert of Germany, who beat out Canadian Kristina Groves for bronze by 22 hundredths of a second.

But the true highlight of the night, was the first win of gold by a Canadian at home.
This was accomplished by Alexandre Bilodeau. The celebration was immense and Bilodeau immediately hugged and thanked his brother.
Silver wint to an extremely upset Dale Begg-Smith of Australia, and silver went to our very own American Bryon Wilson.

I will give you some of todays highlights later on!
Till then, I'm Sportsmaster JR, and remember, always stay inbounds!