Saving the Best for Last

For the third time in four days, Canada has won 4 medals.

The first one this afternoon came around 5 PM when our men's team pursuit trio beat the United States to snag the men's only medal at the Richmond Olympic Oval. That was Gold #11.

Then, barely 5 minutes later, Jasey-Jay Anderson carved his way to Olympic gold after 4 tries. Anderson made it through 10 runs before crossing the finishing line as Olympic champion. More amazingly, he made up a 0.76 second deficit in the final run. What a moment for him.

Up in Whistler, Lyndon Rush's four man bobsled team missed out on a silver medal by 1/100th of a second. Nonetheless, they do take away the bronze medal, which was also Canada's 24th trip to the podium, matching the record haul in Torino.

Finally, a couples hours ago, Canada's Men's Curling team, led by Skip Kevin Martin, beat Norway 6-3 to win our 13th Gold medal in Vancouver.

What a day it's been-we got to hear O Canada THREE times. We broke the record for the most number of gold medals won by a host nation. We tied the record for the most number of gold medals EVER by any nation at one Winter Olympics. On Wednesday night, Canada was trailing far behind with just 11 medals. Now, suddenly, we might ourselves in third place with 25 medals.

And it's not done yet! TOMORROW-this entire nation will watch what will be the BIGGEST HOCKEY GAME Canada has ever played in. If we win, it will be our 14th Gold medal and 26th medal overall. But more than that, we will have won our HOLY GRAIL.

*Fingers crossed*

-D