winter olympics day 3

watching some highlights from the day. medals to be handed out for pairs figure skating. some serious wipeouts in the training runs for alpine skiing which, for one canadian, tor her a.c.l. in her knee (cant remember which one). another one almost took an american out. the way she landed, it looked like she tore her knee up. from what i heard it wasnt as bad as it looked. during the luge runs, there was some close calls. watched some curling earlier today. more hockey tomorrow (okay there was some hockey today too). tomorrow has canada vs sweden in womens hockey, speed skating, luge, curling. losts happening. updates on www.cbc.ca/olympics.

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