Ok, it's not the Gold, but it was a highly anticipated game between USA and Canada in their sport and on their turf.
The hush at game's end was very noticeable.
What a win!
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Feb
19
American Evan Lysacek glided to Olympic gold in men's figure skating on Thursday in a super upset of Russian Yevgeny Plushenko.
It was a crushing blow for Plushenko, who had come out of retirement to rescue Russian skating.
He assumed (wrongly) that he had prevailed as he came off the ice and raised both index fingers. It was surprise and a bit of anger when he saw the scores and he was not a happy camper on the podium with his silver.
At 6-foot-2, Evan Lysacek's jumps may not be what you're accustomed to from watching much shorter people in this sport. He looks like his sport is football or hockey and not figure skating.
Yes, Plushenko stressed jumps, but there was little else to his program. No grace, no solid footwork and the last full minute of his program left the observer yawning.
Lysachek was the opposite. His choreography kept you enthralled. His jumps and footwork were just about flawless and he finished with a flourish. He had beaten the demons of the past.
As the Kansas City Star put it:
Lysacek was pumping his fist in affirmation before he ever stopped spinning.
Five spots later came Plushenko. The Russian with the haughty attitude.
Call it a Cold War, if you like.
There's a new Olympic champion.
Plushenko is not a gracious loser.
"I was positive that I won," he said. "But I suppose Evan needs a medal more than I do. Maybe it's because I already have one. [ uh, no. You had no artistry --and btw, your attitude sucks]
"I have to share with you: two silver and one Olympic gold medal is not too bad."
Plushenko is the only man with three Olympic figure skating medals. Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden won four: gold in 1920, '24 and '28, silver in '32.
At 27, Plushenko already is considered old. Knee problems helped force the retirement that ended with his comeback this season.
Plushenko did not like the direction skating is taking, wondering why the quadruple jump he mastered long ago isn't more important.
Wasn't he taught that figure skating is more than the technical aspects? Apparently not, or he has forgotten it.
"He's a great jumper," Plushenko said, referring to Lysacek. "He can do triple lutzes, triple flip, yes. And he's a very good skater, like artistic." [bingo. It's an ART]
Lysacek didn't do a quad, and Plushenko couldn't resist a jab.
"If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump a quad, I don't know," he said. "Now it's not men's figure skating, now it's dancing."
No, Ice Dancing is a separate category. Do you even know your sport or are you just in a foul mood? Yeah, it's the latter. Get over it.
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Feb
18
Have you been watching the Olympics? I always do.
Last night, I stayed up to watch Shaun White. After all the stories on his private half-pipe carved into a mountain, I had to see his new trick.
As it turned out, Shaun got a 46 on his first run, not even using his new double backward flip! He had the Gold before his second run! I am glad he did it so we could see it! It even increased his score by 2 points. Not that he needed it 
"I just felt like I didn't come all the way to Vancouver not to pull out the big guns," said White, whose cult-status among snowboarders and skateboarders has earned him the nicknames "The Flying Tomato" and the "Animal".
Glad to see us back in the speed skating medals too. Way to go guys!
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Oct
02
Big congrats to Rio for getting the 2016 Olympics.
On the other hand, Obama has embarrassed all of us by going over there with his lame speech, thinking all would fall at his feet.
What an ass. AND he spent $900,000 on his little jaunt. One million dollars that could help – how many Americans?
Same to Michelle, Oprah, et.al.
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Sep
30
Obama is hell bent to bring Olympics to Chicago – and all because Valerie Jarrett stands to benefit greatly.
No time for Afghanistan where our sons and brothers are dying every day!
In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her “dear friend” and “chit-chat buddy” Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow’s visit by President Obama, is a “sacrifice” on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States. “As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days,” the first lady told a crowd of people involved in the Chicago project, “so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home.”
Oh really?
One Will P. sums it all up by noting that the games would “protect the current corrupt structure” and paper over Chicago/Illinois’s myriad woes, including: “Governor after Governor going to jail. Pay to play schemes. Crumbling and outdated infrastructure. Deteriorating public housing. Failing, dumbing-down schools. Hospital cutbacks. Sanctuary city.
Never-ending gang wars (outbursts every Spring requiring massive police presence, police outmanned at the Taste of Chicago, innocents shot in the crossfire weekly, current beating video out now). Cemetery scandal (bodies removed and graves resold)…
Acorn, Bill Ayers, Rezko, Blago, Wright. Univ. of Illinois “clout” scandal. Illegal preferential city hiring. City inspectors on the take (Operation Crooked Code). Voter fraud. The unemployment rate. Taxes through the roof. Mayor Daley attempting to extend city taxes to the suburbs. All this, and more…”–http://michellemalkin.com/
What this is really all about ,is good old Chicago Politics where supporters are paid back. Enter Valerie Jarrett who would stand to make millions if the Olympics comes to town. She has been there for the Obamas and now it is payback time.
Jarrett’s slum lord record in Chicago is highly relevant to her current and ongoing pursuit of Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid — which will cost taxpayers nearly $5 billion and bring an untold windfall to developers and contractors.
Poor people will be forced out by "Emminent Domain" and folks like Valeries Jarrett will make money.
A top White House adviser said first lady Michelle Obama is planning to make a dramatic presentation when she offers the closing argument for the bid by her hometown of Chicago to win the 2016 Summer Olympics.
“There won’t be a dry eye in the room,” said Valerie Jarrett, who plans to travel with the first lady to Copenhagen for the Oct. 2 International Olympic Committee vote.
“I’m sure that it will touch the hearts of each of the IOC members,” Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama, said today in an interview.
Jarrett declined to say what the first lady will tell the IOC. The stakes are high because winning the games would be an economic boost nationally, as well as for Chicago, she said.
“It will be a huge economic engine for Chicago, but it will have a ripple effect throughout the country,” Jarrett said, adding that U.S. corporations have voiced support for Chicago’s bid.
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