http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/taxonomy/term/83/0 en http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/blog/davethorvald/more-results-from-saturday-and-sunday <p><strong>20Km W's Cross-country Skiiing&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Estonia's Kristina Smigun opened the medal count for the former-Soviet, Baltic countries with a Gold in 15km pursuit Cross-Country (the race in which Canada's Beckie Scott finished 6th).&nbsp; Katerina Neumannova from Czech Republic took Silver finishing about a second behind while Russia's Evgenia Medvedeva-Abruzova scored the Bronze medal.&nbsp; Beside Beckie's 6th, Canada's Sara Renner of Canmore, AB., finished 16th in a discipline which saw numerous competetitors already suspended for 5 days for high blood hempglobin levels or something.<br /> </p> cross-country skiing downhill skiing luge short track speed skating snowboard Torino 2006 women's hockey Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:42:48 -0800 http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/blog/davethorvald/a-couple-of-sunday-morning-notes-and-observations <p>Greetings this Sunday Morning!</p><p>Just a couple of observations from last night's and this mornings events from coverage I've managed to catch - augmented by a few notes by Dan Funboy.<br /> </p><p>Besides Jennifer Heil's awesome performance and Women's Hockey rolling over Italy (as I type they are leading Russia 10-0), i enjoyed an inspired performance by Italian long-strack speed skater (insert name here), who absolutely looked like he was being pushed by the Italian crowd.&nbsp; Great to see the homer country get on the medal board early too.</p><p>More about Speed skating, that hotshot American kid is fast and determined, watch his technique, a double push but they'll likely talk about this on TV-coverage.&nbsp; CBC has Catroina LeMay Doan doing color commentary and she was quite good (though she looks rather soccer-mom-ish now - cause well, ... she probably is) but she called on Canada to support more and help the athletes to &quot;own the podium&quot; (the Canadian mantra).&nbsp; </p> canada CBC downhill skiing freestyle moguls hockey long track Olympics speed skating Torino 2006 womens Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:10:24 -0800