awesome pic!!!!!!!!

Yay Canada women's hockey!

Um ... hasn't ANYBODY been watching figure skating???

I've got my Luongo team Canada shirt on and I am ready for tonight. LETS GOO!

It makes me sleepy!

And yes YAY for Canada and a gold in Hockey last night. Will be interesting to see what comes of the "party" they had afterward.

I watched figure skating finals and cried like a baby. Though I think pretty universally that the expectations countries have for their figure skaters puts so much unreasonable pressure on them. Look at Rachael Flatt, who skated a good program and left with a smile on her face despite where she ended (because the US women were under zero pressure this year), and compare to the defeated, downtrodden face Mao Asada had, after winning the silver, doing something that had never been done in women's figure skating, and oh yes, losing to a record-shattering, once in a lifetime performance. It's just devastating.

Rochette made me cry, too. Especially on the podium.

I totally called it on who would win what in figure skating. So it was pretty boring for me. Joannie Rochette, Mirai Nagasu & Rachael Flatt were the only preformances I actually enjoyed. IMO they were the only ones skating with some heart. The other ones were skating because they knew they had already won a medal, so why put any heart into it. The silver medalist could've at least smiled!! Her & Plushenko should hang out sometime with their "platinum" medals.

Both the gold and silver winners knew that they were frontrunners for the medal, but I thought both skated with a LOT of heart (but that heart was somewhat obscured by the tremendous pressure put on them by their countries). You could see the pressure just LIFT off of Yu-Na after her performance was over. I really enjoyed her.

I loved watching the Americans skate, though - with nothing to lose and no national expectations, they looked like they were really enjoying themselves.

Of course, a lot of the heart of figure skating went out the window with the new scoring system.

When is the closing ceremony? Sunday?

I was sad watching Mao Asada after the performance as well - she skated a fantastic performance, accomplished those triple axels that had never been done by a woman and still looked like she had been beaten with a stick afterward. She looked like her life was over. Made me think of that "no one expects the Spanish Inquisition" line. Mao Asada couldn't possibly expect to come up behind a program like Kim Yu-Na. It made her achievement look minimal in comparison. I did appreciate the excitement that Scott Hamilton expressed over it, and hope that in time she will feel pleased about it as well.

The Americans did look like they were enjoying themselves. I was glad to see that.

DH and I were talking while we watched last night - the women's programs, while technically beautiful, didn't seem to have as much 'pop' as some of the men's. Like the women just weren't enjoying themselves as much. That pressure that Amanda was talking about.

This time I thought the women were all really good. (<music snob hat> I liked Mao Asada's choice of music, Rachmaninov's Bells of Moscow, it showed a little originality. Also Kim Yu-na with Gershwin's Concerto in F. Rachael Flatt skated to Rach's Paganini Rhapsody: it's a nice piece of music but EVERYBODY skates to it! It's getting to be a cliche! Can we have a 4-year moratorium on the Pag Rhapsody, Carmen and Scheherazade, pretty please? Also do Spanish dancers ever wear any colors other than red and black? 99% of the time I see a skater in red and black -- Asada was the exception thank goodness -- and I think, she's going to skate to Spanish music! </music snob hat>) That said, I really do like the men much better, as a group they're technically stronger, show more personality and use a wider variety of musical choices. But except for the Olympics the women are the only ones who get much prime-time play. C'mon NBC, it's not all Kim v. Asada, let's see more Lysacek!

ETA 02.27: I just remembered I did hear some rock-n-roll in the kiss-n-cry on ladies final night (I think after Miki Ando). Not Party in the USA though

Omg..speed skating stresses me out so much, lol!! I can't handle the pressure. It's like watching Michael Phelps swim for a gold. I'm standing up screaming "GO GO GO" at the top of my lungs, LOL!!

I enjoyed the mens Curling today :D Martin is extreme!

I was so happy to see how the US and Canadian skating pairs hugged when on the podium, such good friends!

Now that was a good hockey game! Actually I was cheering for Slovakia but ... Awesome game.

We should be so lucky as to be able to see that calibre of play more often ... sigh ...

Watched curling last night. It was the first time I've watched it in 20 years. My Dad used to play it and I'd forgotten how much I liked it. Now I'm hooked!