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 The 21st edition of the winter Olympics was held in Vancouver BC from February 12-28. 82 nations and 2626 athletes participated in the games. 1. Alexander Bilodeau won Canada's first gold on home soil on the first night of the games, winning in moguls. 2. First opening ceremonies to be held indoors. (BC Place). 3. Cayman Islands, Colombia, Ghana, Montenegro, Pakistan, Peru, and Serbia made their winter debut here. 4. Slovakia and Belarus win first golds here. 5. Sidney Crosby scores the "Golden Goal" giving Canada a 3-2 win over the USA in overtime on the last event of the games.  This gold gives Canada 14 golds, breaking a record shared by Norway (2002) and Soviet Union (1976) who each had 13. Canada finished with 26 overall (14g, 7s, 5b). USA broke the record for most overall with 37 (9g, 15s, 13b). Germany had 36 in 2002. Tomorrow - 2014 Sochi Russia.

 Liam Gill will be replacing Derek Livingston in snowboard halfpipe as Livingston is injured and cannot compete. Gill is also the lone indigenous person on the snow team.

 The Los Angeles Rams are  going to the Super Bowl after beating the San Francisco 49ers 20-17.  They will face the Cincinnati Bengals on February 13 for the championship.  Should be a good one.

 The Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl for the first time in 33 years by beating the Kansas City Chiefs 27-24 in ot. They will play either the Los Angeles Rams or the San Francisco 49ers. That game is next. (Personally hoping for Cincinnati vs San Francisco, halfway right so far).

 The 20th edition of the winter Olympics were in Torino Italy from February 10-26. 80 nations and 2629 athletes participated in the games. 1. First gold went to Michael Greiss of Germany in the 20k biathlon. 2. Latvia wins first winter medal, a bronze by Martins Rubenis. Armin Zoggler of Italy won the event, giving him a medal in his 4th consecutive games, including back to back gold's. 3. Ted Ligety of the USA wins the combined in a race riddled with disqualifications, such as Bode Miller and Benjamin Raich. 4. Canada had set Olympic records in team pursuit (men's and women's) only to have Netherlands (men) beat that, just to have Italy (men) beat the Dutch. 5. Kristina Smigun wins two of three of Estonia gold's (10k classical and 15k pursuit). Andrus Veerpalu wins the other gold in 15k classical. 6. Canada's Duff Gibson beats Jeff Pain in skeleton, finishing 1-2. Gibson becomes oldest individual gold medalist. 7. Lascelles Brown of Canada becomes first Jamaican bo...

 The 19th edition of the winter Olympics was held from February 8-24. 78 nations and 2397 athletes participated in these games. 1. Ole Einar Bjorndalin wins gold in 10k, 12.5k, 20k and 4X7.5k. 2. Samppa Lajunen of Finland wins three gold in Nordic combined.  3. Simon Ammann of Switzerland wins two ski jumping golds. 4. Janica Kostelic wins 3 golds 1 silver in downhill skiing. It is Croatia's first winter medals. 5. Steven Bradbury wins Australia's first winter gold in 1000m short track, benefitting from competitors crashing in front of him. Few days later, Alisa Camplin wins Australia's second gold. This one in women's aerials. 6. Vladimir Kopat scores a goal from center ice. It's the game winner as Belarus scores the biggest upset in men's hockey as they beat Sweden 4-3. Belarus finishes 4th, losing to Russia for bronze. 7. Canada scores a double gold in ice hockey. First on February 21, the women beat the USA 3-2 with Jayna Hefford scoring the game winner. Thr...

 The 22nd annual edition of hockey Day in Canada is happening. I believe Scarborough Ontario is host city. Only four of the seven Canadian teams play each other.  Anaheim at Ottawa is on now, Winnipeg at St Louis is at 2pm,  Toronto at Detroit at 6pm, Edmonton at Montreal also at 6pm and Vancouver at Calgary at 9pm.  All times Prince Albert Saskatchewan times.  Updates as they come. Update 1. Anaheim 2 Ottawa 1. Update 2. Winnipeg 4 St. Louis 1. Update 3. Edmonton 7 Montreal 2, Toronto 7 Detroit 4. Update 4. Calgary 1 Vancouver 0 (ot). That's it for another hockey day in Canada.

 The 18th edition was held in Nagano Japan from 7-22. 72 nations and 2176 athletes participated in these games. 1. Curling, snowboarding and women's hockey was added. 2. NHL players participated in these games. Czech Republic won gold beating Russia. Finland won bronze. 3. Sandra Schmirler of Canada won gold in women's curling, while Mike Harris won silver ( not to confuse him with the former Ontario premier). 4. Azerbaijan, Kenya, Macedonia, Uruguay and Venezuela made their winter debut here. 5. Larisa Lazutina of Russia won 3g, 1s 1b in cross country skiing to become most decorated athlete of these games. 6. Bjorn Daehlie of Norway won 4 medals (3g) to up his career Olympics total to 12 (8g 4s). 7. Kazuyoshi Funaki of Japan wins two ski jumping golds. 8. Tara Lipinski of USA becomes youngest gold medalist (15 years 255 days), winning figure skating gold. 9. Three podium sweeps. A. February 11, women's 3000m speed skating, Germany, Gunda Niemann, Claudia Pechstein, Anni Fr...

 Devin Heroux with the information. Some numbers for Canada. There are 215 athletes going to Beijing. The third highest amount going to a winter Olympics. 109 men, 106 women. 106 women are the most women going to an Olympics. Oldest woman is also the oldest athlete, that being Jennifer Jones in curling at 47. Youngest woman is snowboarder Brooke D'Hondt at 16. Oldest male is  curler John Morris, who is 43. Youngest male is freestyle skier Emile Nadeau, who is 19. Competition starts Thursday morning, or Wednesday night here, with the opening ceremony next Friday morning.

 Iran has qualified for the world Cup. Top two in group a and b in the Asian qualifying are going to the world Cup and Iran will be guaranteed to finish top two in group a.

 The 17th edition of the winter Olympics was held in Lillehammer Norway from February 12-27. 67 nations and 1737 athletes participated in these games.  1. 14 nations made their debut hero, including 9 former Soviet republics. 2. New stricter qualifying rules began at these games. 3. Two new distances were added to short track speed skating, and aeriels were added as well. Also speed skating was indoors from these games onwards. 4. Manuela Di Centa (5 for Italy) and Lyubov Yegorova (4 for Russia) dominated women's cross country skiing. 5. A crowd of 100,000 saw Italy beat Norway by 0.4s in the 4x5 men's cross country relay. 6. Oksana Baiul wins the first ever gold medal for Ukraine, beating out Nancy Kerrigan. 7. Sweden wins it's first hockey gold, beating Canada in a shootout in the final (I watched that game) 8. One podium sweep. It happened on February 13 in the men's combined. Lasse Kjus, Kjetil Andre Aamodt and Harald Christian Strand Nilsen won gold, silver and bro...

 Four snowboarders were added after an internal appeal. They are: Sebastien Beaulieu, Kaylie Buck, Jennifer Hawkrigg, and Jules Lefebvre. This happened not that long ago. Not bad for blog entry 4000.

 The 16th edition of the winter Olympics was held in Albertville France from February 8-23.  64 nations and 1801 athletes participated in these games.  1. These were the last winter Olympics to be held in the same year as the summer.  2. Short track speed skating, women's biathlon and freestyle skiing were added. 3. Last winter Olympics to include demonstration sports. Curling (added in 1998), aeriels (not sure when added) ski ballet and speed skiing were last demonstration sports. 4. Eight new nations debuted here. 5. Last games long track speed skating were held outside. 6. Figure skating, long and short track speed skating and both ceremonies were in Albertville. 7. Bjorn Daehlie and Vegard Ulvang of Norway each won three cross country skiing gold's  8. Three nations won first winter Games medals. Kim Ki-Hoon of South Korea won a gold in 1000m short track speed skating, Ye Qiaobo won a silver in the 500m long track speed skating, and Annelise Coberger of New ...

 Keith Yandle of the Philadelphia Flyers is currently playing in his 965th consecutive game, officially surpassing Doug Jarvis for most consecutive game. Yandle's streak started in March 2009. Jarvis streak went from 1975-1987 and 964 games. Phil Kessel is 24 games behind and should pass Jarvis.  Congratulations. Impressive record.

 The 15th edition of the winter Olympics was held in Calgary Alberta from February 13-28. 57 nations and 1423 athletes participated in the games. 1. First winter Olympics to go 16 days and three weekends. 2. Last games for the Soviet Union and East Germany. 3. The "heroic failure" of Michael "Eddie" Edwards in ski jumping and the debut of the Jamaican bobsled team happened here. 4. David Foster composed "winter games" and "Can't You Feel It?" for these games.  5. Chinook winds played havoc to the point that snow had to be made the temperatures got warm. Alpine skiing was contested on artificial snow for the first time. 6. Christa Rothenburger of East Germany won gold in 1000m speed skating event. She then follows it up with a silver in cycling team sprint at the 1988 summer games to become the only athlete towing a medal at the winter and summer Olympics in the same year. 7. Soviet Union, Finland and Sweden finished 1,  2, 3 in hockey. Canada...

 It happened about an hour ago. The forwards: Daniel Carr, Daniel Winnik, Corban Knight, Adam Cracknell, Ben Street, Mason McTavish, Jack McBain, Landon Ferraro, Eric Staal, David Desharnais Adam Tambellini, Jordan Weal, Eric O'Dell, Josh Ho-Sang. Defence: Brandon Gormley, Mat Robinson, Alex Grant, Max Barberio Owen Power, Maxim Moreau, Tyler Wotherspoon, Jason Demers. Goalies: Devon Levi, Matt Tompkins, Edward Pasquale. Alternates:. Morgan Ellis, Justin Pogge, John Gilmour, Chris DiDomanico, Kent Johnson, Max Veronneau. Good luck to all in Beijing 

 The 14th edition of the winter Olympics was held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) and were held from February 8-19.  49 nations and 1272 athletes participated. 1. First winter Olympics held in a Slavic speaking country. 2. Weather wreaked havoc here. Wind delayed the Alpine skiing for four days. 3. Egypt, British Virgin Islands, Monaco, Puerto Rico and Senegal made their winter Olympics debut.  4. Marja-Liisa Hamalainen of Finland won all three individual cross country skiing event and added a silver in the 4x5k. 5. Jure Franco of Yugoslavia won its only medal of the games AND Yugoslavia first winter medal - a silver in the giant slalom 6. Women's 20k added to the Olympics. 7. Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean earned across the board perfect scores in the free dance part of ice dance. It has never happened since. 8. Erik Kvalfass and Peter Angerer each won the complete set of medals 9. Twin brothers Phil and Steve Mahre finished first and second in sl...

 Announced about an hour ago. They are: Moguls: Chloe Dufour-Lapointe, Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Laurent Dumais, Sofianne Gagnon, Mikael Kingsbury. Aerials: Flavie Aumond, Naomy Boudreau-Guertin, Miha Fontaine, Emile Nadeau, Marian Thenault. Slopestyle/big air: Olivia Asselin, Elana Gaskel, Teal Harle, Evan McEachran, Max Moffatt, Edouard Therriault, Megan Oldham. Halfpipe: Noah Bowman, Simon d'Artois, Amy Fraser, Rachael Karker, Brendan Mackay, Cassie Sharpe. Good luck to all in Beijing

 Wow. Four thrillers this weekend. Today had Los Angeles beat Tampa Bay 30-27. And the game that just finished, Kansas City beat Buffalo 42-36 in overtime. Three touchdowns and a field goal in the last couple of minutes of this game sent it to overtime. Other three games were won on last second field goals. The AFC championship game has Cincinnati at Kansas City, while the NFC championship game has San Francisco at Los Angeles. Can they repeat this weekend? Find out next Sunday.

 The 13th edition of the winter Olympics was held in Lake Placid NY. They were held from February 13-24. 37 nations and 1072 athletes participated.  1. Some venues from 1932 were renovated and used for these games.  2. Last games in which a city with 15000 people or less was held.  3. Eric Heiden won all five speed skating golds - a record I believe hasn't been matched. 4. China (winter), Cyprus (first ever) and Costa Rica debuted here. 5. USA beats USSR in the "Miracle On Ice" hockey game. Two days later they beat Finland to win gold.  6. Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein won her country's first two golds in Alpine skiing. 7. USSR finished atop the gold medal standings with 10. They also had 6s and 6b to make the total 22.  East Germany finished first overall with 23 medals (9g, 7s, 7b). USA finished with 6g, 4s, 2 b for 12 total. Canada won only two medals - a silver from Gaetan Boucher in the 1000m speed skating (behind Eric Heiden) and a bronze from Steve P...

 Wow both conference leaders are out. San Francisco just beat Green Bay 13-10 on a last second field goal. They will be in either Tampa Bay or Los Angeles in the NFC championship games.  Earlier Cincinnati knocked off Tennessee 19-16. They will be in either Kansas City or Buffalo for the AFC championship game. Find out tomorrow who else will be going.

 The 12th winter Olympics was held from February 4-15. 37 nations and 1123 athletes participated. 1. Games were originally awarded to Denver Colorado. November 7, 1972 Colorado voters rejected funding for the games. Denver pulled out on November 15. Whistler BC was offered the games, but was turned down due to provincial election. Salt Lake offered but was rejected. Innsbruck was asked and officially accepted on February 5 1973. 2. Franz Klammer of Austria wins downhill in 1:45.73 3. Rosi Mittermaier of West Germany wins 2g 1sin Alpine skiing. Missed a third gold by .13s. 4. Soviet Union wins fourth hockey gold in a row. 5. Second cauldron was built for these games. This and the 1964 cauldron was lit. 6. Bobsleigh and luge were contested on same track. 7. Soviet Union finishes atop the medal standings with 13g, 6s, 8b for 27 total, breaking their own record for most golds and most total. Austria finished with 2g, 2s 2b for 6 total. Canada finished with 1g, 1s 1b for 3 total.  ...

 I missed this completely. They are:  Antoine Cyr, Remi Drolet, Olivier Leveille, Graham Ritchie, Olivia Bouffard-Nesbitt, Cendrine Brown, Laura LeClair and Katherine Stewart-Jones.  Good luck to all in Beijing.

 The 11th edition of the winter Olympics was held in Sapporo Japan and was held from February 3-13. 35 nations and 1006 athletes participated in the games. 1. These were the first winter games in Asia. 2. Galina Kulakova of the Soviet Union won three cross country skiing events.  3. Aro Schenk wins three golds in speed skating. 4. Barbara Cochran wins USA first women's Alpine skiing gold since Andrea Mead Lawrence won slalom gold in 1952. Cochran won gold in slalom. 5.  Spain wins first winter gold. Francisco Fernandez Ochoa won gold in slalom. 6. Anne Henning and Dianne Hilum put in the USA best performances in speed skating. 2g, 1s 1b was won between them. 7. Wooden skis were used for the last time here. Fibreglass skis have been used since. 8. Luge has its only tie, occuring in men's doubles. 9. Three sweeps. A.  February 6, Ski jumping, normal hill, men's, Japan, Yukio Kasaya, Akitsugu Konno and Seiji Aochi. Japan had never won gold until this. This sweep is the ...

 We start with ski jumping. This team consists of: 1. Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes 2. Alexandra Loutitt 3. Matthew Soukup 4. Abigail Strate Now for ski cross. On this team: 1. Marielle Thompson 2. Courtney Hoffos 3. Brittany Phelan 4. Hannah Schmidt 5. Kevin Drury 6. Brady Leman 7. Jared Schmidt 8. Reece Howden. Now for Alpine skiing. On this team: 1. Marie-Michelle Gagnon 2. Cassidy Gray 3. Valerie Grenier 4. Ali Nullmeyer 5. Erin Mielzynski 6. Roni Remme 7. Amelia Smart 8. Laurence St. Germain 9. Jack Crawford 10. Erik Read 11. Trevor Philip 12. Brodie Seger 13. Broderick Thompson. Good luck to all in Beijing.

 The 10th edition of the winter Olympics was held in Grenoble France from February 6-18. 37 nations and 1158 athletes participated in the games. 1. Jean Claude Lilly won three golds in Alpine skiing. 2. One of Killy's golds had some controversy. Karl Schranz of Austria claimed a mysterious man (possibly) in black crossed his path, forcing him to stop. He was allowed a rerun, which was faster than Killy. A jury of appeal decided to disqualify Schranz, giving gold to Killy. 3. Peggy Fleming of the USA, wins their only medal of the games - a gold in figure skating. 4. These games were credited with being more popular in the USA, due to ABC coverage, mostly on Fleming and Killy. Fleming became a darling overnight and Killy was popular with the younger ladies. 5. IOC ordered drug and gender tests. 6. East and West Germany competed separately for the first time.  7. East Germany women's luge team disqualified after they were found heating the runners on their sled. 8. All bobsled ra...

 Three sliders in skeleton and three men's + three women's bobsleigh teams. Let's meet them. They are for bobsleigh: 1. Justin Krupps, Ben Coakwell, Ryan Sommer and Cam Stones. 2. Christopher Spring, Mike Evelyn, Sam Giguere and Cody Sorensen 3. Taylor Austen, Jay Dearborn, Chris Patrician and Daniel Sunderland 4. Christine De Bruin and Kristin Bujnkowski  5. Cynthia Appiah and Dawn Richardson Wilson 6. Melissa Lotholz and Sara Villani Now the skeleton. They are Mirela Rahneva Jane Channel and Blake Enzie. Good luck to all in Beijing.

 The 9th edition of the winter Olympics was held in Innsbruck Austria. They were held from January 29-February 9. 36 nations and 1091 athletes participated. Highlights include: 1. Venues were within 20km of each other. 2. Luge makes its debut, as does North Korea, India and Mongolia. 3. Lidiya Skoblikova of Soviet Union wins four golds in speed skating. She is the first athlete to win four in one games. 4. Sixten Jernberg of Sweden adds three cross country medals to increase his career haul to nine. 5. Soviet Union wins first of four straight hockey golds. Goals differential breaks tie between 2nd, 3rd and 4th.  Sweden gets silver, Czechoslovakia bronze and Canada fourth.  6. Five podium sweeps  A. January 31, women's 500m speed skating, Soviet Union. Lidiya Skoblikova, Irina Yegorova and Tatyana Sidarova. B. February 1, women's 10k, Soviet Union, Klavodiya Boyarskikh, Yevdokiya Mekishlo and Mariya Gosakova. C. February 4, men's luge, Germany, Thomas Kohler, Klaus-Mi...

 First the snowboard team.  Halfpipe: Brooke D'Hondt, Elizabeth Hosking and Derek Livingston.  Parallel/giant slalom: Megan Farrel and Arnaud Gaudet. Slopestyle/big air: Jasmine Baird, Laurie Blouin, Brooke Voigt, Mark McMorris, Max Parrot, Darcy Sharpe and Sebastien Toutant. Snowboard Cross: Zoe Bergmann Tess Crutchlow, Meryeta O'Dine, Audrey McManiman, Eliot Grondin, Kevin Hall and Liam Moffatt. Now the biathlon team.  They are: Sarah Beaudry, Emma Lunder, Megan Banks, Emily Dickson, Christian How, Scott Gow, Jules Bernotte, and Adam Runnals. Good luck to all in Beijing.

 Squaw Valley CA was host of the 1960 (8th) winter Olympics. It was held from February 18-28. 30 nations and 665 athletes participated in these games.  1. Squaw Valley was an undeveloped resort when chosen to host. All the venues and infrastructure were built brand new. 2. Bobsled was not run for the first and only time.  Lack of participants and cost made it impractical to build a track.  3. South Africa debuted here. They don't return until 1994 due to apartheid issues.v 4. Speed skating, figure skating and hockey were held indoors and on artificial ice for the first time. 5. Speaking of hockey, USA wins gold here. 6. New timing equipment was installed and a quartz clock was used for hundredths of a second. Longines supplied the equipment. IBM supplies the computer to tabulate the results. 7. One podium sweep here. Soviet Union swept the women's 10k cross country skiing event. Maria Gusakova, Lyubov Kozyreva and Radia Yeroshina finished on the podium. 8. Soviet Uni...

 Two teams today. First the luge team. They are: 1. Natalie Corliss 2. Trinity Ellis 3. Makena Hodgson 4. Justin Snith 5. Tristan Walker 6. Reid Watts. Now the short trackers. They are 1. Pascal Dion 2. Steven Dubois 3. Charles Hamelin 4. Maxime Laoun 5. Jordan Pierre-Gilles 6. Danae Blais 7. Kim Boutin 8. Florence Brunelle 9. Alyson Charles 10.  Courtney Sarault Alternate 1. William Danjinow  Alternate 2. Camille De Serres-Rainville Good luck to all in Beijing

 The Los Angeles Rams just beat the Arizona Cardinals 34-11 to go to the divisional round. They will go to Tampa Bay to race the Buccaneers on Sunday.  Buffalo at Kansas City will be Sunday night. Saturday has Cincinnati at Tennessee and San Francisco at Green Bay.

 Cortina D'Ampezzo was host of the 7th winter Olympics. The games ran from January 26 - February 5. 32 nations and 821 athletes participated.  1. Soviet Union, Bolivia and Iran debuted here, while Korea, Liechtenstein and Turkey returned. 2. Many venues were within walking distance of each other. 3. First winter games to be televised multi nationally. 4. First female to give Olympic oath.  Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo had the honor. 5. USA beats Canada in hockey for the first time. With the USSR beating Canada on the final day of hockey, the Soviet Union wins first gold, beginning it's own dominance. Canada finished with bronze. USA got the silver. 6. Figure skating was held outdoors for the last time. 7. Italy gets on the bobsled podium for the first time. Finished with gold and silver in two man, and silver in four man. 8. Two new cross country skiing events.  Men's 30k (won by Veikko Hakulinen of Finland) and women's 3x5k (Sirka Polkunen, Mirja Hietamies and Siiri Rant...

 16 athletes representing Canada.  They are: 1. Ivanie Blondin 2. Marsha Hudey 3. Valerie Maltais (former short tracker) 4. Brooklyn McDougall 5. Heather McLean 6. Maddison Pearman 7. Alexa Scott 8. Isabelle Weldman 9. Jordan Belchos 10. Ted-Jan Bloemen 11. Laurent Dubreuil 12. Graeme Fish 13. Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu 14. Connor Howe 15. Tyson Langelaar 16. Gilmore Junio.  Good luck to all in Beijing.

 Night two has come to a close.  Kansas City beat Pittsburgh 42-21 to get to the divisional round.  They will face Buffalo next, and Cincinnati will be heading for Tennessee in the AFC divisional. The NFC games had Tampa Bay beat Philadelphia 31-15 and San Francisco beat Dallas 23-17.  San Francisco will face Green Bay in the divisional and Tampa Bay will face either Arizona or Los Angeles Rams. That game is tomorrow night.

 Oslo Norway hosted these games. They were held from February 14-25. 30 nations and 694 athletes participated in the games.   1. All venues were within the Oslo metropolitan area, except for Alpine skiing which was in Norefjell, 113km (70 miles) away. 2. First athletes village was built here. Three dormitories plus a new hotel for the press and dignitaries. 3. Japan and Germany returned to the games after being disallowed to go in 1948. They were seen as aggressors to WWII. 4.  Portugal and New Zealand made their debuts here 5.  Hjalmar Andersen of Norway won three of four speed skating events. 6. Germany wins two man and four man bobsled. 7. Dick Button performs first triple jump on way to second gold. 8. Women were allowed to compete in cross country skiing for first time and produced only podium sweep. Lydia Wideman, Mirja Hietares and Siiri Rantanen of Finland swept the podium in the 10k race. 9. The "Oslo Flag" was used for the first time at the closing cer...

 First night is done.  Buffalo beat up on New England 47-17 to end it.  Earlier Cincinnati beat Las Vegas 26-19 to go to the divisional. Who will they play? Find out tomorrow.

 These games were in St Moritz Switzerland from January 30 to February 8. 28 nations and 669 athletes competed in 22 events among 4 sports.  1. These games were "the games of renewal" after the second world war ended.  2. Barbara Ann Scott won Canada's first figure skating gold.   Suzanne Morrow and Wallace Diestelmeyer won bronze in pairs for Canada.  American Dick Button, at 19, wins gold on the men's side. 3. Canada wins gold in hockey (again).  4. More Alpine skiing events added. 5. Skeleton returns after 20 years. 6.  Two demonstration sports. First was winter pentathlon (just think summer equivalent). Second is military patrol. It gets renamed biathlon and added to the 1960 games. 7. Two podium sweeps.  First by Sweden on January 31st in men's 16k. Martin Lindstrom, Nils Ostensson and Gunnar Erikson.  Second sweep was in ski jumping from Norway on February 7. Petter Hugsted, Birger Ruud and Thorlief Schjelderud won medals. 8. Norwa...

 This season had (no kidding captain obvious) 60 games and 6 teams. Highlights include: the "Durnan Rule" came into effect. This rule disallowed goalies to become captains. Opponents had argued that Durnan had come out to argue calls just to give Montreal a free time out.  During the season Durnan had recorded four straight shutouts and hadn't allowed a goal in 309 minutes 21 seconds. November 10 unseasonably warm temperatures had created a fog bank at the Boston Garden.  Fog got so bad that Bill Chadwick had to abandon a game between Boston and Detroit nine minutes in.  The game was replayed the next night, which Boston won 4-1. February 3 had Turk Broda being the first Leaf to win 250 games. Playoffs: semi finals had Detroit beat Montreal 4-3 and Toronto beat Boston 4-1.  Toronto then beat Detroit 4-0 to win the Stanley Cup. Toronto became: 1. The second team to win the cup with a below .500 record (Chicago in 1938). And 2. the first team to win three straight...

 Garmisch-Partenkirchen was host these games. They were held from February 6-16. 28 nations and 646 athletes participated in these games.  Highlights include: 1. Alpine skiing makes its debut as the combined. Germany won gold in the men's (Franz Pinur) and women's (Christi Cranz). 2. Ivar Ballangrud wins three of four speed skating races. 3. Switzerland wins 4 man bobsled in time of 5:19.85. 4. Great Britain knocks off Canada for their only Olympic ice hockey gold. 5. Heaviest and largest medals to date (3.9 inches diameter, 0.16 inches thick and 324g or 11.4oz). 6. Two podium sweeps. First on February 13 in Nordic combined. Oddbjorn Hagen, Olaf Hoppsbakken and Sverre Brodahl of Norway landed on the podium. The second sweep was on February 15 in men's 50k.  Elis Wiklund, Axel Wikstrum and Nils-Joel Englund of Sweden finished on the podium. 7. Norway finished atop the medal standings with 7g, 5s and 3b for 15 total.  Canada finished these games with one silver. Yup in...

 Lake Placid NY hosted these games from February 4-15. 17 nations and 252 athletes participated.   1. Coca Cola becomes official drink of the Olympics, lasting until 2021. 2.  Victory podium was used for the first time. 3. Eddie Eagan became only Olympian to win gold in the summer games (1920 in boxing) and winter games (bobsled here). 4. Irving Jaffee wins gold in 5000m and 10000m. In the latter, he beat Ivar Ballangrud by 15 feet. 5. Demonstration sports include: curling, sled dog racing and women's speed skating.  6. USA leads medal haul with 6g, 4s and 2b for 12 total.  Canada finished with 3g, 4s and 3b for 10 total. Two podium sweeps.  Both by Norway. First was February 11 in Nordic combined by Johan Grottumsbraten, Ole Stenen and Hans Vinjaren. The second was February 12 by Birger Ruud, Hans Beck and Kaare Wahlberg in ski jumping normal hill.  Tomorrow- 1936

 Was announced an hour ago. They are: 1. Dharia Beatty 2. Cendrine Browne 3. Laura LeClair 4. Katherine Stewart-Jones 5. Antoine Cyr 6. Olivier Leville 7. Graham Ritchie. Good luck to all in Beijing.

 It happened a couple of hours ago. Rachel Homan and John Morris were chosen to represent Canada in Beijing. They will self isolate for a few days before heading over.

 The second edition of the winter Olympics was held from February 11-19.  25 nations and 469 athletes participated. Highlights include: 1. Fluctuating weather conditions wreaked havoc.  Blizzard hit during opening ceremonies. Warmer weather happened during the remainder. Warmer weather forced the sudden end of the 10000 m speedskating race as Irving Jaffee had taken the lead from a Norwegian. A Norwegian ref suddenly cancelled the event. Then the IOC overturned the decision. Then the international skating union overturned the IOC decision. Nobody got medals. 2. Switzerland won only a bronze, becoming the host nation with the lowest medal total. 3. Sonja Henie won her first of three golds, and becoming youngest Olympic champion. 4. Canada finished with one medal - a gold in hockey.  Tomorrow - 1932.

 The historical countdown to Beijing starts in 1924 in Chamonix France.  They were held from January 25-Febrary 5. 16 nations and 258 athletes were at these games. Highlights include: 1. They were originally called International Winter Sports Week.  In 1925 the IOC decided to rename it the first winter Olympics and had them independent from the summer games.  2. The tradition of having them the same year as the summer games also began here.  3. The first winter Olympics gold went to Charles Jewlain in the 500m speed skating event.  4. Sonja Henie of Norway participated in her first Olympics at 11 years old. Although she finishes last here, she would win gold in three straight Olympics. 5. Gilles Grafstrom of Sweden defends his 1920 summer Olympics gold in figure skating. 6. Canada, represented by the Toronto Granites, also defend their 1920 summer Olympics gold. 7. There were two podium sweeps here, both by Norway, and both by Thorlief Haub, Thoralif Stroms...

 The team was unveiled about 25 minutes ago.  They are: Goalies: Emerance Maschmeyer, Anne-Marie Desbians, Kristen Campbell. Defense: Erin Ambrose, Ashton Bell, Renata Fast, Jocelyne Larocque, Ella Shelton, Claire Thompson, Micah Zandee-Hart Forwards: Emily Clark, Melodie Daoust, Sarah Fillier, Brianne Jenner, Rebecca Johnson, Emma Maltais, Sarah Nurse, Marie-Phillip Poulin, Jamie Lee Rattray, Natalie Spooner, Laura Stacey, Blayre Turnbull. They look to avenge the silver from 2018.

 Quite the Sunday nighter between Las Vegas and the Chargers.  The Raiders got themselves and Pittsburgh into the postseason (saw some fans wanting the Chargers and Raiders to tie to eliminate Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh lost to both teams). Saturday has Las Vegas at Cincinnati and New England at Buffalo. Sunday has Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, San Francisco at Dallas and Pittsburgh at Kansas City. Monday night has Arizona at Los Angeles Rams.  That will be the first Monday night playoff game since December 26, 1988 when Minnesota beat the Rams 28-17.  That was to avoid playing Christmas Day. What a day.

 The following 13 skaters will be representing Canada at the winter Olympics: 1. Madeline Schizas (women's) 2. Keegan Messing (men's) 3. Roman Sadovsky (men's) 4. Vanessa James (pairs) 5. Eric Radford (pairs) 6. Kristin Moore-Towers (pairs) 7. Michael Marinaro (pairs) 8. Piper Gilles (ice dance) 9. Paul Poorer (ice dance) 10. Laurence Fournier Beaudry (ice dance) 11. Nikolaj Sorenson (ice dance) 12 Marjorie Lajoie (ice dance) 13. Zachary Lagha (ice dance).  Competition starts February 4th.

 Happy New Year to all. Let's hope 2022 is an improvement over the last couple of years.  May 2022 be prosperous for everyone.  Cheers. 🍾🥂🎊🎉