The Days biggest story is the move by the IOC to move the mens luge to the womans track. The second story is USA’s Hannah Kearney wins gold in the Woman’s Mogul she beat Canada’s Jennifer Heil by less than a point. 26.63-25.69 USA’s Shannon Bahrke finshed 3rd.
Olympic luge events will start farther down the track than originally planned, officials said Saturday, a decision they made with the “emotional component” of athletes in mind following the death of a Georgian competitor. They reiterated that the lightning-fast track was safe for competition, and Olympic officials said they were “completely satisfied” with the adjustments. ”We never said it is too fast,” International Luge Federation president Josef Fendt said. An extra session of men’s training, as well as all four runs of the men’s event — two on Saturday, two on Sunday — will begin from the women’s start ramp. Meanwhile, the women’s and doubles entrants in the Olympic field will now start even lower, at the junior start position, between the fifth and sixth curves. ”The decisions made are to deal with the emotional component for the athletes,” Luge federation secretary general Svein Romstad said. It means speeds in all luge events will be a bit slower — as much as 5 mph — at the Whistler Sliding Track, where 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili, from the republic of Georgia, crashed and died in a training run on Friday after his body flew over the track wall and smashed into a steel pole at nearly 90 mph. The decision to change the start’s location seemed to have the desired effect Saturday. None of the 36 sliders, all of whom wore black tape on the left sides of their helmets in tribute to Kumaritashvili, broke 90 mph after speeds routinely surpassed 95 mph earlier in the week. Tony Benshoof, the top U.S. medal hope in this event, was the first to take to the track since modifications were made after Kumaritashvili’s death. He took a deep breath, secured the visor over his face and dropped down this elevator shaft of ice not knowing what to expect. He glided to the bottom, slower but safer. And that’s all that mattered.
The men’s downhill event at the Vancouver Olympics has been rescheduled for Monday after officials postponed the race due to slushy conditions hours before it was scheduled to begin. Rather than take a chance Saturday and try to see if the weather improved, organizers called off the first Alpine race at the Olympics shortly after 4 a.m. local time, about 7½ hours before it was scheduled to start. The race will now be held at 10:30 a.m. PT Monday. Repeated snow, rain, fog and too-warm temperatures have turned the Olympic slopes into a soft, mushy mess too dangerous to be used for high-speed skiing. The first women’s event, the super-combined, was supposed to be Sunday, and the decision to postpone that was made Friday. FIS, the governing body for skiing, said snow and rain throughout Friday night, along with expected mild temperatures during the day Saturday, made for poor skiing conditions. Highs on the course were expected to be in the 40s, and a mix of rain, sleet and snow was likely. Officials likely will try to get women’s training in Sunday. With its location close to the Pacific Ocean, bad weather has always been an issue in Whistler. For three consecutive years in the mid-1990s, the World Cup ski circuit came to the Canadian resort and failed to get a single race off. It wasn’t just a case of calling off a particular downhill or super-G; entire weekends had to be scrapped. Eventually, Whistler was removed from the World Cup circuit. Mother Nature proved to be a problem again this time. Only one of six training runs for men and women has been completed as planned.
On the lighter side.
In Woman’s Hockey the team from Canada took on the team from Slovakia and the score was 18-0 the winner was Canada. Canada had 7 goals in the 1st 6 in the 2nd and 5 in the 3rd. Thats all i can say!
Now for the medal count..
Keep in mind Canada has never won gold when they are hosting.
11 Delegations have won at least one medal.
United States has 4 1g 1s 2b
South Korea has 2 1g 1s
Netherlands,Switzerland, and Slovakia all have 1g
Canada, Germany, and Poland all have 1s
Austria, France, and Russia all have 1b
From the how did he stay on files
Stefan Hoehener for Switzerland on his 2nd Men’s Singles Luge run slipped up in the 12th turn and came off this sled but two turns latter he while skidding pulled his self back on and pulled it out, he did finish 38 in the 2nd run with a time of 53.838. he was 10th going into the run after a time of 48.728 in the 1st run.
The German’s have the top slots Felix Loch is first with 48.168 in the 1st run and 48.402 in the 2nd. David Moeller in second with 48.341 in the 1st and 48.511 in the 2nd. The Italian Armin Zoeggeler with 48.473 in the 1st and 48.529 in the 2nd.
Tony Benshoof from the USA is in the top 10 with 48.657 in the 1st run and 48.747 in the 2nd run.
Run 3 is tomorrow and run 4 (Medal run) in tomorrow night.
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