Well, in a huge disappointment (but, to be honest, not a huge shock), today the defending Olympic champion Canadian men’s hockey team was eliminated by Russia in the quarter-finals. But of course our defending champion women’s team didn’t disappoint, winning gold on Monday…
But the news today wasn’t all bad — not at all! We won medals in four more events, including two gold! Olympic newcomer Chandra Crawford won gold in cross-country skiing women’s sprint; the amazing Cindy Klassen won her fourth medal of these games (a record for a single Canadian athlete!) — a gold in 1500m speed skating; Kristina Groves made it one-two, winning the silver in the same 1500m event; we won a very dramatic and exciting silver in short-track women’s speed skating.
All this makes me think…what’s up with our men? Thank goodness for our wonderful women — they’ve won 72% of our medals (13 of 18 events) so far in these games. If you count the number of actual awarded medals it’s an even higher percentage (partly because there are 20 women on a hockey team): 41 of 51 medals received, or just over 80%! Go ladies!