More medals!

We went one, two in women's downhill skiing. Lindsey Vonn won gold and Julia Mancusa won silver. While I didn't get to watch them compete live, I watched the medal ceremony, and I felt so happy for Lindsey. She had a leg injury recently, but she still pulled off a gold medal performance. It was great luck that the bad weather hit, allowing her some extra time to recover. Plus, the course was especially tough because the snow was hard and packed together--a lot of people crashed. I'm really impressed that Lindsey was able to do so fracking well with pain in her shin!

No medal for the women's short track 500 (Katherine Reutter skated well early on, but didn't make the cut for the A final). Canada got silver, though. The men's final for the 5000m relay hasn't been skated yet, but our team qualified for the A final. And Apolo and JR qualified passed through their 1000m heats, as expected. (Also, the US women's 3000m relay team will be in their final.)

American Shani Davis of won gold in 1000m speed skating. No surprise there. American Chad Hedrick won bronze--also no surprise. And a Korean filled in the silver spot--again, no surprise. Nice results, but not altogether exciting. I love that Shani got to win two olympics in a row, though. He was the first black athlete to win an individual event Winter Olympic gold in 2006, and he does it again the next time to also become the first man to win back to back golds in the 1000m.

We also got gold and bronze in the men's snowboarding halfpipe through Shawn White and Scotty Lago, respectively. Shawn pulled off his "Double McTwist 1260," a crazy turny, flippy trick that he made up and that no one else has tried to land. He's pretty entertaining--he throws out a lot of peace signs, and he's been doing tricks since he was a little kid! He's the Tony Hawk of snowboarding.

As for other countries, Germany got another medal (bronze) in luge (men's doubles)--they've won 5 out of 9 possible medals. And Norway has won 3 medals in cross country so far (nothing for the US). It's nice to see other countries dominate sometimes, too.

Bob Costas interviewed Stephen Colbert on the late night coverage. I could hear the set crew laughing as it was being filmed. It was pretty funny, no thanks to Costas. NBC isn't used to having a Comedy Central man around (that's why they waited till late at night to air it). At the end, he went over and curling up by the fire to get warm, saying, "That's what I love about NBC--the authenticity. Everything's real."

Speaking of late night coverage, Mary Carillo is the host for that segment, and I really like her. She's a good interviewer--much better than Costas--and she actually knows what she's talking about, probably because she used to be an athlete (tennis). Chris Collinsworth is good, too (former football player), but he only does special stories. I wish he was an anchor.