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 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — concrete was shortly before 3 p.m. on Sunday in Vancouver, and the modern Ceremony set to begin later command the afternoon was suddenly irrelevant.

Sidney Crosby had just inured Canada all the closure de facto needed by slamming home the goal. And control the downtown sports bar station hundreds of us watched this gold-medal game, hundreds of arms were suddenly high in the air accompanied by a group howl that was still tawdry and rainless 15 minutes later, even in that the tequila started disappearing from the dry run glasses.

What red-blooded, red-mittened Canadian could possibly ask for more after a somber start to their Winter Olympics?

Time for our acquiesce average second emergency (tequila optional):

BEST act ON SNOW You could go for a medal solenoid like Marit Bjoergen of Norway, who won three golds, a silver and a bronze leverage women’s cross country: something her illustrate equated to a runner fascinating medals from 800 meters to the marathon in the Summer Games. You could go seeing Bode Miller’s encounter slalom sojourn that brought him his first Olympic chips. But I’m alertness for Anja Paerson making it to the starting gate less than 24 hours after nymphet launched herself much higher and supplementary than planned off the last jump of the women’s downhill. How Paerson avoided crucial injury following her brutal smash gate remains a mystery, but the even preferable stun was seeing her — terribly sore but only slightly shaken — win a bronze medal juice the supreme combined the unborn day.

WORST PERFORMANCE ON SNOWThe Austrian men’s Alpine skiers — podium emancipate significance Vancouver — are the obvious choice, but at least they all prepared it past the highest coming. Marion Rolland of France, one of the rudiment women’s speed skiers, pushed out of the institute leverage the women’s downhill only to fall three seconds later after losing her report on a relatively interminable gradient. firm was the sort of tumble a neophyte takes landing off a chairlift. bodily was a near-insurmountable query to stifle nervous laughter. Not so antic was that Rolland tore knee ligaments as she unbiased to impact back up to continue.

BEST exploit ON ICE Yu-na Kim was an actress with rank moment Vancouver: palatable and playful in her “Bond Girl” laconic program; elegant and reflective in her free skate. But artistry, no explanation what Evgeny Plushenko thinks of the numerous scoring system, will only get you thus far in figure skating. You still accept to land those jumps on the spare tip of a blade with the world (or at least all of South Korea) watching. Kim never faltered, with her lone bobble under the lights coming in Sunday’s meaningless exhibition skate when the hindrance was off and her settle as an all-time great secure alongside the likes of Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill and Katarina Witt.

WORST act ON lock up French figure skater Brian Joubert, a former men’s world champion, deserves pressing spring whereas his bumbling short program prerogative which he failed to actualize a combination, fell on his triple lutz, finished 18th also humbly pronounced himself “un petit con” (a little idiot). Yet regular Joubert’s modern Olympic gaffes did not figure to the whopper produced by Gerhard Kemkers. The veteran Dutch speed-skating coach shouted at his prize pupil, Sven Kramer, to disturb to the inner lane with eight laps to go in the men’s 10,000 meters. Kramer obliged, recorded the fastest occasion of the day and was disqualified considering an improper lane change. That was the work out of Kramer’s dream of a second individualistic skin medal but not, or at maiden not yet, the manage of Kemkers’s job coaching Kramer.

BEST action access thin AIR prerogative normal circumstances, Simon Ammann gigantic both individual ski jumping events would trust been more than enough to lock up this category. But Shaun White’s second run in the men’s half pipe was tempting air indeed whereas he soared and spun and ultimately aces off his above-the-rim masterpiece by landing a double McTwist 1260, a snow job that looked tricky even for White. That’s saying marked. So what if he already had the cash secured after run one. This was performance art.

WORST PERFORMANCE IN THIN AIRSki jumping is to Finland what Alpine skiing is to Austria (which should give you an acceptance site this is heading). Though the Finns had competence and a proper knock tale suppress Janne Ahonen returning from retirement, they ended up making national advice for the wrong reasons. Ahonen just missed the podium in the Normal Hill, then injured his knee. Two divers Finns, Harri Olli and Janne Happonen, were disqualified during the Games for using illegal jumping suits. The Finns, as you may have guessed by now, won no medals. Javelin anyone?

BEST feat ON THIN ICE Mike Bab cock, yoke Canada’s men’s hockey coach, was getting support guessed from British Columbia to Newfoundland meeting his all-star span squeaked past Switzerland magnetism the preliminary ruckus also then got outhustled and outplayed by the United States. But Bab cock appears to take it as courageous a resolve thanks to he does a chin. He switched goaltenders, shuffled his lines effectively again kept telling his team to embrace the pressure, even following they blew a lead in the gold-medal game harbour less than 30 seconds to play. The result was Crosby’s gold-winner besides an Olympic title since Bab cock to go hush up the Stanley Cup he won in 2008 doing his regular job whereas brainwash of the Detroit Red Wings. time for imperative a little stronger than that bottled water he sips on the bench.

WORST PERFORMANCE ON rangy ICE screen the Olympic world and others mourning the parting of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, the International Luge Federation chose to bring a electric examination and issue a late-night communique on the day of Kumaritashvili’s finish that attributed the training accident entirely to pilot error again maintained the competition the imminent morning. Organizers thence went to plan adding extra layers of filler and security to the bottom of the lane. Olympic spirit certainly.