Canadian Pride

From coast to coast to coast, our athletes came together in Vancouver to do battle with the best in the world at the 21st Winter Olympics Games and they did us proud.

Thank you.

Believe It!!

Canada has just won gold in the final event of the Winter Games --men's hockey!

This gives Canada 14 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze medals.

With this gold medal, Canada now holds the record of most gold medals won by a country in the winter Olympics.

Own the podium? How about we smashed it!!

Way to go Canada!!

picture courtesy of City News.

Gold-Medal Record

Canada's 13 gold medals at the Winter Games ties the events all-time record, which was set by the Soviet Union at the 1976 Innsbruck games and matched by Norway in 2002.

A win today by the Canadian men's hockey team would give Canada the all-time Winter Olympic Games gold-medal record.

Time to kick some ass and end these games in style!

Go Canada go!!

Rocks of Gold

It's still raining gold. Canada's Kevin Martin has won another gold for Canada in men's Olympic curling, beating Norway by a score of 6-3 in the 10th end.

This brings Canada's medal count to 13 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze.

Canada is closing these games with a bang!

picture courtesy of Sportsnet.

Four Man Bobsleigh Bronze

Canada wins bronze in the four man bobsleigh at the sliding centre in Whistler.

Medal count is now 12 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.

Way to go Canada!!

picture courtesy of Sportsnet.

Its Raining Gold!

Another gold!!

Canadian Jasey-Jay Anderson has won gold in the men's parallel giant slalom snowboard event at Cypress mountain.

Medals are falling from the sky for Canadians, bring our new total to 12 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze!

Outstanding! Way to go Canada!!

picture courtesy of TSN.

Gold!

Canada wins gold in the men's team Pursuit at the Olympic oval in Richmond.

This brings Canada's medal total to 11 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze.

Go Canada Go!!

Picture courtesy of TSN.

Another Gold!

What a night!
The Canadian men's team have just won gold in the 5000 metre short track relay at the Pacific coliseum.
The medal count just keeps on climbing, 10 gold, 7 silver, and 4 bronze.
Way to go Canada!
picture courtesy of Sportsnet.

Gold And Bronze!

What a finish!
Canada's Charles Hamlin has won gold and Francois-Louis Tremblay the bronze in the 500 metre short track speed skating final.
Canada's medal count climbs to 9 gold, 7 silver, and 4 bronze.
Way to go Canada!
picture courtesy of Sportsnet.

Silver in Woman's Curling

Canada's Cheryl Bernard and her crew came up short in extra ends, and wins Silver in the woman's curling gold medal final at the Winter games.

This brings Canada's medal total to 8 gold, 7 silver, and 3 bronze medals.

Go Canada go!

picture courtesy of Sportsnet.

Damn You Winter!

Two days to March and winter finally decides to show up.What the hell?!?
This was shaping up to be the best winter ever, until I woke up this morning and saw the snow. There goes my dream of a snowless winter. Damn you Canadian climate! And of course the dogs did not seem to mind this weather one bit.Oh well, on the bright side, we are one month closer to April and the start of bike season.
Come on spring!!

Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday to my lovely wife. She is not one for making a big deal about her birthday, good thing for her, she happens to be married to me!Hope you have a great day!

Figure Skating Bronze

After a heart wrenching performance on Tuesday in the short program, Joannie Rochette managed to put together another stellar performance on Thursday in her free skate to capture bronze for Canada. Rochette's mother who was at the games to watch her compete, died suddenly of a heart attack four days ago. Instead of withdrawing from competition, Rochette decided to stay and skate in honour of her mom.What an amazing performance.
This was also Canada's first medal in Olympic figure skating since 1988.

This brings Canada's medal total to 8 gold, 6 silver and 3 bronze.

Way to go Canada!

picture courtesy of Sportsnet.

Gold In Woman's Hockey

The Canadian woman's hockey team has won their third straight Olympic gold against the US 2-0.

This brings Canada's medal total to 8 gold, 6 silver and 2 bronze medals.

picture courtesy of TSN.

Silver Bullets

Some how I missed this yesterday. Canada's woman's short track speed skating team won silver in yesterdays 3000 metre race at the Pacific Coliseum. Canada originally won bronze but was bumped up to silver when the winning team of South Korean team was disqualified for bumping the Chinese team. This gave gold to China, silver to Canada and bronze to the U.S.

For those keeping count, that's 7 gold, 6 silver and 2 bronze medals.

Way to go Canada!

picture courtesy of www.slam.canoe.ca

Gold and Silver!

Talk about owning the podium! Canada added to the medal count with a gold and a silver in woman's bobsleigh at the Whistler sliding centre. Heather Moyse and Kaillie Humphries won gold and Helen Upperton and Shelly-Ann Brown won silver.
What a day!

This brings the medal count to 7 gold, 5 silver and 2 bronze!

picture courtesy of TSN.

Going Out In Style

Canada's flag bearer, Clara Hughes ends her illustrious Olympic speed skating career today by winning bronze in the ladies 5000 metre speed skating event at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

This brings Canada's medal count to 6 gold medals, 4 silver and 2 bronze.

Way to go Canada!

picture courtesy of City News.

Ski Cross Gold!

Whistler's own Ashleigh McIvor won the gold medal in the ladies' ski cross final today at Cypress Mountain.

This gives Canada 6 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze medal.

Way to go Canada!

picture courtesy of TSN.

Golden Dance

Canadians Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have won Canada's first ever Olympic gold in ice dancing. Way to go Canada!

Canada's medal count now stands at 5 gold, 4 silver and 1 bronze.

picture courtesy of Sportsnet.

Double Medal Winner

Kristina Groves became Canada's first double medal winner at these Winter Olympic Games by winning silver in the ladies 1,500 metre Speed Skating event yesterday. Kristina also won bronze in the 3000 metre event.

This brings Canada's medal count nine medals; four gold, four silver and one bronze and puts Canada in a tie with Korea for fourth place for medals won by country. Norway is in third with 12 medals, Germany second with 18 and the US in first, with 24 medals won.

Way to go Canada!

picture courtesy of Sportsnet.

NBC Explains Canada

This is from the US coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. It aired on NBC right before the opening ceremony, check it out -- its pretty cool.

Golden Skeleton

Finally home track advantage pays off! Jon Montgomery of Russell, Man. captured the gold medal in men's skeleton tonight at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Canada's medal count now stands at four gold, three silver and one bronze.

Go Canada go!

picture courtesy of TSN.

Gold, Gold, Gold!

Christine Nesbitt of London, Ont., claimed Canada's first long track speed skating gold medal, finishing first in the ladies 1,000-meters at the Richmond Oval.
This brings Canada's medal total to three golds, three silvers and one bronze.

Way to go Canada!!

picture courtesy of TSN.

Silver In Short Track

Marianne St-Gelais, who turned 20 today, won silver for Canada in the woman's 500m short track final. Hows that for a birthday gift!
Canada's medal count now stands at two gold, three silver and one bronze.

Go Canada go!

picture courtesy of TSN.

Racing News: USF1 Team Set To Fold

All this 24 7 Olympic coverage is starting to make me go blind, time to take a break from all this wall to wall coverage and see what else is going on in the world...

In F1 news there is talk that USF1 will not make the starting grid for the 2010 F1 season.

Reports from Canadian site Auto123.com suggest that Charlotte based team USF1 is set to fold. This comes after Brian Bonner, strategic developer for the team, has left and reports were swirling about the team’s future. In the article, Argentine paper La Voz announced that Sporting Director Peter Windsor confessed to Argentine businessman Phillip McGough & the parents of driver Jose Maria Lopez were notified that the team has not built a car within the time specifications.
Also noted in the article, that YouTube founder Chad Hurley has also left the team to negotiate with Adrian Campos, to help his effort out. No official word from USF1 has been made, and calls to the team from The Inside Line have not been returned. If all the revelations are true, Serbian based team Stefan GP will be the next team in line to take the grid in 2010.

Gold Again!

Vancouver's own Maelle Ricker has captured Canada's second gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, winning in ladies' snowboard cross at Cypress Mountain.
This brings Canada's medal total to two gold, two silver and one bronze medal.
Go Canada go!
picture courtesy of TSN.

The Silver Surfer

Canadian Mike Robertson has won a silver medal in the men's snowboard cross race at Cypress Mountain.

This bring Canada's medal count to one gold, two silver and one bronze.

picture courtesy of Sportsnet.

Canada Finally Wins Gold

Alexandre Bilodeau won Canada's first ever gold on home soil tonight, after a near-perfect run in the men's moguls final.

Canada now has one gold, one silver and one bronze medal. Way to go Canada!

picture courtesy of Sportsnet

Canada Wins Another Medal

Canadian Kristina Groves wins bronze in the 3000m Long Track Speed Skating.
This Brings Canada's medal count to two, one silver and one bronze.
Go Canada Go!
picture courtesy of Sportsnet

Canada Wins First Medal

Canada won its first medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games yesterday.
Jennifer Heil won silver in women's moguls. Way to go Jen!Here are some amazing shots from the opening ceremony on Friday, enjoy. pictures of opening ceremony courtesy of http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/opening_ceremonies_for_vancouv.html

picture of Jennifer Heil courtesy of www.cbc.ca

Twitter Quotes

On Twitter this morning...

Lance Armstrong:

Golfed w/ @college6 today. On one tee I couldn't find my ball. I said, "you take my ball college?" He replied, "no, cancer did."

IndyRacingNut:
"All I gotta say is, forget 3-wide at 220mph...Whoever goes first down that luge track tomorrow has more balls than any IndyCar driver."

Let The Games Begin!

The 21st winter Olympics begins today in Vancouver and I believe, along with the rest of Canada, that this will be our best games ever.

Go Canada go!

Racing News: IRL Looks For New Car Design

The IRL is a spec series, which means that every team uses the same race car body and engine. How each team adjusts the settings to the components on the car is how they find the advantage to win. The IRL has been using the same car design now for many years and has began the process of designing a new car to be debuted for the 2012 season.
The IRL began accepting bids from company's looking to produce their next car.
Here is the bid from Dallara.
Now here is the bid from DeltaWing Racing, which was unveiled yesterday at the Chicago Auto Show.Are you serious?
Yes they are. And here is their website to prove it. Wow. Brings new meaning to the term, Crapwagon!
pictures courtesy of my name is IRL

Deadliest Catch Captain Dies

Captain Phil Harris, fisherman in charge of the Cornelia Marie on the popular Discovery Channel show "Deadliest Catch," passes away late yesterday nearly two weeks after suffering a stroke on Jan. 29.
Harris was 53.
Sons Jake and Josh Harris posted this statement to their father's Web site:
"It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad -- Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end. For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down. We will remember and celebrate that strength. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers."

courtesy of http://blogs.abcnews.com

Sun And Ice

Baby it's cold out there! Some shots I took this morning, while out walking the dogs.

Poker Night

My wife went out of town this week on business, and that gave me the perfect opportunity to get the guys together for a poker night. And oh what a night it was....

Learning the rules to Texas hold 'em.

The wife would be proud, check out the coasters!I had a full house, literally!At one point I was the one to beat, but that didn't last for long.In the end, Tony stood victorious with the most money won.Barry came in second...and I came in third.Everyone else went home empty handed. Better luck next time.