The Olympics

I've been watching some of the Olympics every night since they started this week. Last nights Snowboarding Competition had me glued to the tv. For some reason, I was SERIOUSLY interested in seeing if Shaun White could successfully defend his Gold Medal from the 2006 Olympics. And, I wasn't dissappointed.

Watching his qualifying run amazed me. He did so well on his first run that he didn't even need to do a second run because his score immediately qualified him for the Finals.

Well, the same thing happened with his first run in the Finals. He scored so high that it gave him the Gold Medal, but he went and did his second run, I guess just for kicks, and he debuted his new flip/jump/move, whatever he calls it, (just found the name of this new move.....he has dubbed it the "Double McTwist 1260", and it entails flipping twice while completing 3½ revolutions) and holy crap batman!! Shaun walked away from that run with a 48.5 score. Now that may seem low if you think they base it on 100 points, but they don't. The best possible score you can get is a 50.

In short, I think Shaun White is a pretty amazing guy with A TON of guts in that body of his. Or....he's just plain crazy. *grin*

So Congrats to Shaun White on the Gold Medal. Congrats are also in order for Lindsey Vonn, of women's Alpine Downhill Skiing, and Shani Davis in Men's Speedskating for claiming  Gold in their respective events.

The U.S. set a record high for medals earned in one day, by winning six medals, including the three Gold. The previous record was 5 medals, 3 Gold earned in 2002 at Salt Lake City.

The U.S. now sits atop the leaderboad with 14 Medals earned so far. Next is Germany with 10. Canada only has 6 medals so far so I'm beginning to wonder if their whole "Own the Podium" idea is starting to crumble.......