Fox334 Posted March 28, 2009 Author Report Posted March 28, 2009 Figure Skating Ice Dancing: G: Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin (RUS) S: Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto (USA) B: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (CAN) Virtue and Moir won the bronze by 0.04 points... Qualification implication: 3 couples: Russia Unites States 2 couples: Canada France Italy 1 couples: Great Britain Israel Lithuania Ukraine Japan Germany Azerbaijan Oh, the gold medal in women's Curling will be decided between China, Sweden and Denmark: Sweden defeated Canada 5-4 (in extras) in the 3-4 playoff (who the hell invented the page playoff, anyway?) After 81 of 86 events: Country #G #S #B T United States 12 5 10 27 Norway 11 6 6 23 Germany 9 15 4 28 Austria 8 7 3 18 Canada 6 6 13 25 China 5 6 1 12 Switzerland 5 4 4 13 South Korea 4 5 3 12 Netherlands 4 2 2 8 Russia 3 4 5 12 Finland 3 1 7 11 Japan 3 0 3 6 Italy 2 3 3 8 Poland 2 0 2 4 Sweden 1 3 2 6 Czech Republic 1 3 1 5 Great Britain 1 2 0 3 Estonia 1 0 0 1 France 0 5 5 10 Slovenia 0 2 0 2 Australia 0 1 1 2 Slovakia 0 1 0 1 Croatia 0 0 2 2 Ukraine 0 0 2 2 Latvia 0 0 1 1
Faster Posted March 29, 2009 Report Posted March 29, 2009 Canada got another silver and is now 6-7-13. Fairly disappointing. I am hoping for a 9-9-9 next year
SpikeyT Posted March 29, 2009 Report Posted March 29, 2009 Dube and Davidson are the only one of the pairs that have legitimate shot at a medal so as long as they qualify its a none issue. If they had repeated their score from last year they would have won silver. Its unfortunate but its not the end of the world as long as our top athletes go. Yeah, you are sort of right. Dube and Davison got lucky last year to put it lightly, and this year they just did not seem to pull it together, and that included the entire season. They have great chemistry and I think they have a chance of medalling, but they really need the help of the other teams in regards to making mistakes. See how the summer goes for them. Virtue/Moir in ice dance did really well, third, and she was injured all year long. Chan was amazing and will challenge for gold. And Rochette wins silver and will absolutely have a chance to medal as well in Vancouver. The pairs do need a bit of improvement to rank up with the other teams. I agree! Canada is only able to send 2 skaters in each discipline, but realisitically that is not that big of a deal. There is only one from each that has a chance of winning anyways. The other skaters who go will aim for top 10 and that's it. In terms of losing out of a medal, the size of the team won't matter. Skate Canada will make the decisions about who attends Vancouver and you can bet all of the above mentioned will be there.
Fox334 Posted March 29, 2009 Author Report Posted March 29, 2009 Curling Women's Team G: China (Wang Bingyu, Liu Yin, Yue Qingshuang, Zhou Yan, Liu Jinli) S: Sweden (Anette Norberg, Eva Lund, Cathrine Lindahl, Margaretha Sigfridsson, Kajsa Bergström) B: Denmark (Angelina Jensen, Madeleine Dupont, Denise Dupont, Camilla Jensen, Ane Hansen) Figure Skating Women's Single: G: Kim Yu-Na (KOR) S: Joannie Rochette (CAN) B: Miki Ando (JPN) Kim Yu-Na blows away the field, winning whit over 207 points (no women had previously broken 200 points). She was more that 16 points clear of Rochette. Qualification implication: 3 athletes: Japan 2 athletes: Canada Finland Georgia Switzerland South Korea Russia United States 1 athlete: Italy Slovakia Estonia Germany Poland United Kingdom Turkey After 83 of 86 events: Country #G #S #B T United States 12 5 10 27 Norway 11 6 6 23 Germany 9 15 4 28 Austria 8 7 3 18 Canada 6 6 13 25 China 6 6 1 13 Switzerland 5 4 4 13 South Korea 4 5 3 12 Netherlands 4 2 2 8 Russia 3 4 5 12 Finland 3 1 7 11 Japan 3 0 3 6 Italy 2 3 3 8 Poland 2 0 2 4 Sweden 1 4 2 7 Czech Republic 1 3 1 5 Great Britain 1 2 0 3 Estonia 1 0 0 1 France 0 5 5 10 Slovenia 0 2 0 2 Australia 0 1 1 2 Slovakia 0 1 0 1 Croatia 0 0 2 2 Ukraine 0 0 2 2 Denmark 0 0 1 1 Latvia 0 0 1 1
Faster Posted March 29, 2009 Report Posted March 29, 2009 CurlingWomen's Team G: China (Wang Bingyu, Liu Yin, Yue Qingshuang, Zhou Yan, Liu Jinli) S: Sweden (Anette Norberg, Eva Lund, Cathrine Lindahl, Margaretha Sigfridsson, Kajsa Bergström) B: Denmark (Angelina Jensen, Madeleine Dupont, Denise Dupont, Camilla Jensen, Ane Hansen) Figure Skating Women's Single: G: Kim Yu-Na (KOR) S: Joannie Rochette (CAN) B: Miki Ando (JPN) Kim Yu-Na blows away the field, winning whit over 207 points (no women had previously broken 200 points). She was more that 16 points clear of Rochette. Qualification implication: 3 athletes: Japan 2 athletes: Canada Finland Georgia Switzerland South Korea Russia United States 1 athlete: Italy Slovakia Estonia Germany Poland United Kingdom Turkey After 83 of 86 events: Country #G #S #B T United States 12 5 10 27 Norway 11 6 6 23 Germany 9 15 4 28 Austria 8 7 3 18 Canada 6 6 13 25 China 6 6 1 13 Switzerland 5 4 4 13 South Korea 4 5 3 12 Netherlands 4 2 2 8 Russia 3 4 5 12 Finland 3 1 7 11 Japan 3 0 3 6 Italy 2 3 3 8 Poland 2 0 2 4 Sweden 1 4 2 7 Czech Republic 1 3 1 5 Great Britain 1 2 0 3 Estonia 1 0 0 1 France 0 5 5 10 Slovenia 0 2 0 2 Australia 0 1 1 2 Slovakia 0 1 0 1 Croatia 0 0 2 2 Ukraine 0 0 2 2 Denmark 0 0 1 1 Latvia 0 0 1 1 Canada's total is wrong, it should be 7 silvers.
Fox334 Posted March 29, 2009 Author Report Posted March 29, 2009 Sorry, I frogot to add the women's single results. Here is the proper table: After 83 of 86 events: Country #G #S #B T United States 12 5 10 27 Norway 11 6 6 23 Germany 9 15 4 28 Austria 8 7 3 18 Canada 6 7 13 26 China 6 6 1 13 South Korea 5 5 3 13 Switzerland 5 4 4 13 Netherlands 4 2 2 8 Russia 3 4 5 12 Finland 3 1 7 11 Japan 3 0 4 7 Italy 2 3 3 8 Poland 2 0 2 4 Sweden 1 4 2 7 Czech Republic 1 3 1 5 Great Britain 1 2 0 3 Estonia 1 0 0 1 France 0 5 5 10 Slovenia 0 2 0 2 Australia 0 1 1 2 Slovakia 0 1 0 1 Croatia 0 0 2 2 Ukraine 0 0 2 2 Denmark 0 0 1 1 Latvia 0 0 1 1
Chateau Petrus Posted April 10, 2009 Report Posted April 10, 2009 Canada vs USA in the semi-final match in few hours (19h00 Finland time) Winner will play in the final sunday (against the winner between Russia and Sweden)
Faster Posted April 10, 2009 Report Posted April 10, 2009 Canada vs USA in the semi-final match in few hours (19h00 Finland time)Winner will play in the final sunday (against the winner between Russia and Sweden) You have the format wrong The top two teams from the Canada, USA, Finland group go to the gold medal game on Sunday (which is Canada and the USA) and the 3rd place team (Finland) will play the winner of the Sweden, Russia and Kazakhstan group (Sweden) So Bronze Medal Game: Sweden vs Finland Gold Medal Game: USA vs Canada
Torchbearer AA Posted April 11, 2009 Report Posted April 11, 2009 Sorry, I frogot to add the women's single results. Here is the proper table: After 83 of 86 events: Country #G #S #B T United States 12 5 10 27 Norway 11 6 6 23 Germany 9 15 4 28 Austria 8 7 3 18 Canada 6 7 13 26 China 6 6 1 13 A few winter olympics further and we can also find China there in the top three countries
Chateau Petrus Posted April 12, 2009 Report Posted April 12, 2009 (edited) Sorry for my mistake two days ago. Information I read was wrong Edited April 12, 2009 by Chateau Petrus
Chateau Petrus Posted April 12, 2009 Report Posted April 12, 2009 Silver for Canada after their 4-1 lost against USA at the Women's Ice Hockey WC in Finland Canada will add today one other medal. They play for the Gold against Scotland later today (in Moncton) at the Men's Curling WC (Norway and Switzeland will battle for the Bronze) So it's mean that Canada will reach the first place for the total of medals with USA and Germany (with 28) With one event left (Men's Ice Hockey) it's possible that Canada finish first with a total 0f 29
Faster Posted April 12, 2009 Report Posted April 12, 2009 This table just shows what I thought, Canada has the ability to win the most medals but its unlikely (unless everything goes perfect in freestyle skiing, curling and hockey) will be hard pressed to match the Americans, Germans and Norwegians in gold medals.
Fox334 Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Posted April 13, 2009 Its been a while ^^. Two events today, whit only one remaining. Curling Men's Curling G: Great Britain (As Scotland) (David Murdoch, Ewan MacDonald, Peter Smith, Euan Byers, Graeme Connal) S: Canada (Kevin Martin, John Morris, Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert, Terry Meek) B: Norway (Thomas Ulsrud, Torger Nergård, Christoffer Svae, Håvard Vad Petersson, Thomas Løvold) I went to see the 3-4 Page Playoff game between Switzerland and Norway (won by the Swiss). My first time attending a world championships in person, great experience. Oh, and I will post a rant about the use of the Page Playoff system in curling pretty soon... Its such a ridiculous system... Ice Hockey Women's Ice Hockey G: United States of America S: Canada B: Finland The United States have officially won my preview medal table! After 85 of 86 events: Country #G #S #B T United States 13 5 10 28 Norway 11 6 7 24 Germany 9 15 4 28 Austria 8 7 3 18 Canada 6 8 13 27 China 6 6 1 13 Switzerland 5 4 4 13 South Korea 4 5 3 12 Netherlands 4 2 2 8 Russia 3 4 5 12 Finland 3 1 8 12 Japan 3 0 3 6 Italy 2 3 3 8 Great Britain 2 2 0 4 Poland 2 0 2 4 Sweden 1 4 2 7 Czech Republic 1 3 1 5 Estonia 1 0 0 1 France 0 5 5 10 Slovenia 0 2 0 2 Australia 0 1 1 2 Slovakia 0 1 0 1 Croatia 0 0 2 2 Ukraine 0 0 2 2 Denmark 0 0 1 1 Latvia 0 0 1 1
Chateau Petrus Posted April 13, 2009 Report Posted April 13, 2009 Canada 6 8 13 27 Maybe I'm wrong ? I think it should be 6 9 13 = 28 We got two silvers today
Faster Posted April 13, 2009 Report Posted April 13, 2009 In the Olympics its a standard playoff 1 v 4, 2 v 3. The page playoff gives an extra reward to the teams that do best in the round robin. It makes up for the unwieldy 10 or 12 team round robin.
Fox334 Posted April 13, 2009 Author Report Posted April 13, 2009 In the Olympics its a standard playoff 1 v 4, 2 v 3. The page playoff gives an extra reward to the teams that do best in the round robin. It makes up for the unwieldy 10 or 12 team round robin. And thank the world there is no page playoff in the Olympics. It makes no sense in Curling. Exhibit A: A what if scenario: Canada win against Scotland in there round robin game. That would have given Canada a 11-0 record while five teams would have been tied for second at a far inferior 7-4 record. Now, a complicated and truthfully not very good tie-breaker system would have been used to decide which of those five teams would have faced Canada in the 1-2 playoff game while the four other teams would have to first go trough a tie break game and then go trough the 3-4 game... Hardly seems fair, eh? Exhibit B: This one actually happened, at last year women's worlds, and is an example of double stupidity. First stupidity: China, Canada and Switzerland all tie for first place, but Switzerland still has to go trough the 3-4 playoff. Second stupidity: China beats Canada two of the three times they meet at the 2008 worlds, but sadly for the Chinese those two times where in the round robin and the 1-2 playoff. Canada won the final, but still had a losing record against the second place finishers.
AlpineM Posted April 19, 2009 Report Posted April 19, 2009 Some of the countries to compete in the winter games are preparing their players for the said event. Some don't let their key players to play on local events for their players to have more preparations on the olympics.
dkshk0123 Posted May 2, 2009 Report Posted May 2, 2009 hey! You miss few medals in figure skating women's single For example, South Korea 5 gold medals (After 83 of 86) -> 4 gold medals (After 85 of 86) Japan 4 bronze medals (After 83 of 86) -> 3 bronze medals (after 85 of 86) So, Canada must be 9 silver medals (After 85 of 86) Figure Skating Women's Single: G: Kim Yu-Na (KOR) S: Joannie Rochette (CAN) B: Miki Ando (JPN)
Fox334 Posted May 2, 2009 Author Report Posted May 2, 2009 Ah, I see what I did now. I took the medal tally from page 8, while the correct one was on the first post of page 9. I'll fix it next week (when the Hockey WC is done). Thanks for pointing it out.
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