the mad sports man

Last night Christine Sinclair scored her 185th career international goal,surpassing Abby Wambach. Canada beat St. Kitts and Nevis 11-0 in an Olympic qualifying game. I met her a couple of summers ago.

Lynda Kiejko is going to her second games in a row, qualifying in the 10m air pistol event. Congrats.

The flame is out. Speeches made. Athletes celebrated. This was a good ride. Canada finishes with 8 medals (1g 2s 5b). Next winter youth games are in Gangwon South Korea in 2024. Next summer youth games are in 2022 in Dakar Senegal. Not long to Tokyo.

.....Andrew Longino. The announcement was last night. The closing ceremony is in a few hours. Good games for Canada. Tokyo is in a few months.

Liam Brearley has his third medal of the youth olympics and it's a bronze in big air snow boarding. That is 1g, 2s and 5b for 8 medals (2g, 2s and 6b for 10 if you include the mixed teams). Way to go.

Nathan Young and Hungary's Laura Nagy have claimed gold in mixed curling winning 9-5 over the Russian/France duo. If you include this and the bronze in mixed figure skating, that is 9 medals won (2g, 2s and 5b) a good haul.

The boys have Canada's 7th medal beating Finland 4-2 in the bronze medal game. 1g, 2s and 4b now and the final day isn't done. Thanks to Devin Heroux for the updates.

First the bronze. Liam Brearley won that in the half pipe. Goes with the silver he won yesterday. Now the gold. Andrew Longino won Canada's first gold in the freeski half pipe. Way to go. That is now 1g,2s and 3b for 6 total. Thanks to Devin Heroux for the updates.

Florence Brunelle has her second bronze in short track speed skating - this time in the 500m event. That is now 2s and 2b for 4 medals. Way to go.

Liam Brearley won a silver in snowboard slopestyle. Put up 3 good runs in the final. That is 2s and 1b for 3 total. Thanks to Devin Heroux for being on top of this.

It will be the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs for super bowl 54. San Francisco beat Green Bay 37-20 for the NFC while Kansas City beat Tennessee 35-24. San Francisco's last super bowl visit was super bowl 47 while Kansas City's last visit was super bowl 4. It is the first super bowl meeting.

Second medal of the youth olympics, and this one goes to Florence Brunelle in short track speed skating -the 1000m distance. Her bronze adds to the silver won in double luge. So that's 1s and 1b for 2 medals.

The first medal (not including the mixed team) of the youth olympics goes to Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corliss in double luge. They ended up with a silver. Congrats. Only 4 days left.

First youth Olympic medals is a bronze in mixed pairs figure skating team. Natalie Daless and Bruce Wadell was a part of team Vision which had athletes from Russia, Ukraine and Hungary. So far the one medal. A week left in the games.

Cam Smedley will be making his second Olympic appearance at the 2020 olympics grabbing a spot in canoe slalom. Yaaaaaaaay. Congrats. Well deserved.

Florence Maheu will be making her first trip to the Olympics this summer when she will be competing in the canoe slalom event. Congrats and good for her.

Green Bay just hung on to beat Seattle 28-23 and will head to San Francisco to play the 49ers in the NFC championship. Meanwhile earlier Houston had a 21 point lead and lost 51-31 to Kansas City. The Chiefs will host Tennessee in the AFC championship game. Both games are next Sunday.

In a 5 set thriller, Canada beats Puerto Rico and will send a volleyball team to the Tokyo summer olympics. They also beat Mexico on Friday and someone yesterday (I forget who). Congrats to the mens volleyball team.

Tennessee just pulled off an upset as they went into Baltimore and beat the Ravens 28-12. They will go to either Kansas City or Houston for the AFC championship.

San Francisco just beat Minnesota 27-10 and will play either Green Bay or Seattle for the NFC conference championship next Sunday.

First medals handed out and it was from ski mountaineering. Caroline Ulrich of Switzerland won gold on the women's side and Thomas and Robin Bussard, also from Switzerland won gold and silver in ski mountaineering. Nothing from Canada yet. Lots of time yet.

The youth games are on. 79 nations are in Lausanne Switzerland for these games. Lauren Rajala carried the flag in. The athletes had already been marched in and the showed off the flag bearers. The flame is lit and the cauldron is fuelling the flame by wood pellets. Neat. Action starts tomorrow and hopefully medals handed out.

Lauren Rajala as she will lead 78 athletes at the 2020 youth winter games. The winter games are in Lausanne Switzerland and they go from January 9-22.

The last one had Seattle beat Philadelphia 17-9. They will go to Green Bay next weekend. Amazing that 3 of the 4 games the road team won. On to next weekend.

This one went to overtime and Minnesota won it 26-20 in New Orleans and will go to San Francisco to play the 49ers.

Canada gas just beaten Russia 4-3 to win their 18th world juniors gold. They were trailing 3-1 early in the third period. WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO. Sweden beat Finland earlier to win bronze and Germany beat Kazakhstan to avoid relegation. That is it for another world juniors. Next year Edmonton and Red Deer cohost the tournament.

Big. Tennessee has knocked off defending champs New England 20-13 and will go to Kansas City a week from tomorrow while Houston goes to Baltimore next week. Tomorrow has the nf wild card.

This one just ended as Houston beats Buffalo 22-19 in overtime at advance to the division round. Coming up has New England vs Tennessee to decide the afc division match ups.

Canada will be facing Russia for gold tomorrow after beating Finland 5-0 in the second semi final. Canada will be looking for redemption for their round robin loss at this tournament. Finland will be playing Sweden for bronze.

Kazakhstan won it's first ever world juniors game as they evened their best of 3 series beating Germany 4-1. Game 3 is tomorrow. Meanwhile in the first semi final game, Russia beat Sweden in ot 5-4. Russia awaits the winner of the Canada vs Finland for gold, while Sweden plays the loser for bronze.

Skylar Park will be competing at the summer olympics in Tokyo. She has always wanted to compete in the Olympics and now has that chance.

So far Canada beat Slovakia 6-1 and Russia beat Switzerland 3-1. The U.S and Finland is scoreless so far and Sweden and Czech Republic is coming up. Stay tuned. Update 1: Finland 1 U.S 0. That had to have been a finish. Update 2: Sweden 5 Czech Republic 0. Sweden faces Russia in one semi final and Canada faces Finland in the other. Both semis are on Saturday.

Happy new year to all readers of this blog. I hope you have a wonderful and prosperous 2020. Have a great day.