At around 5 PM today, Canada added to its gold medal total thanks to Christine Nesbitt of London, Ontario. She edged out a Dutch skater by 2-100th of a second. Her teammate Kristina Groves was oh-so-close to the podium and missed 3rd place by 0.06 seconds.
Nonetheless, GOLD is a beautiful thing and Canada has three of them now in Vancouver. I am, however, starting to be a little worried that we will not end up on top of the medals leaderboard at the end of the Games. The United States have just dominated this first week, already having won 17 medals and perhaps one more in figure skating tonight.
People have said Canada's bulk of the medals are supposed to come in the second week but I just don't know how we'll make up for the medals we lost and the medals we won in Torino that we will for sure not be able to win in Vancouver (Buttle's bronze, Men's Skeleton's gold and silver...). It'll be very, very hard but hopefully, we'll be able to pull ahead the Americans by the end.
Patrick Chan's performance was subpar to say the least here in Vancouver. I expected a lot more from the world silver medallist. But he IS just 19 years old and he will probably be back in Sochi in 2014. It would have been nice for him to win a medal on home soil though.
Gotta watch Pluschenko and then get to bed.
-D
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