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Post by Beatie06 on Feb 12, 2006 22:34:14 GMT -5
BEST AUSSIES: DNQ
Mitchell Allan 25th
Andrew Burton 26th
Ben Mates 36th
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Post by beatie06 on Feb 13, 2006 21:45:41 GMT -5
DAY 3 OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS BIATHLON 15km INDIVIDUAL WOMEN Gold Svetlana Ishmouratova (RUS) 49:24.1 (1) Silver Olga Pyleva (RUS) +45.5 (1) Bronze Martina Glagow (GER) +1:10.8 (2) SNOWBOARD WOMENS HALFPIPE Medal Athlete Score Gold Hannah Teter (USA) 46.4 Silver Gretchen Bleiler (USA) 43.4 Bronze Kjersti Buaas (NOR) 42.0 BEST PLACED AUSSIE: TORAH BRIGHT 5th  BEST AUSSIE:HOLLY CRAWFORD 18th PAIRS FIGURE SKATING Gold Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin (RUS) 204.48 Silver Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao (CHN) 189.73 Bronze Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo (CHN) 186.91 LUGE there was thrills and spills in the luge with 6 retirments Hannah Cambell Pegg is in 24th place SPEED SKATING MEN 500m Gold Joey Cheek (USA) 69.76 Silver Dmitri Dorofeyev (RUS) 70.41 Bronze Lee Kang Seok (KOR) 70.43 MEDAL TALLY TOP 10 USA 4 Gold 2 Silver RUSSIA 3 Gold 3 silver 1 Bronze Germany 2 gold 1 bronze Norway 1 gold 3 silver 4 bronze Netherands 1 gold 2 silver South Korea 1 gold 1 silver 1 bronze Italy 1 gold 2 bronze Canada and France 1 gold 1 bronze Estonia 1 Gold It"s nice haviing Torah Bright getting First place rather than fifth.  |
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Post by Niemmy on Feb 13, 2006 23:08:44 GMT -5
torah bright BIO | PHOTOS | VIDEO Date of Birth: Dec, 1988 Age: 16 Hometown: Perisher-Blue, Australia, N.S.W Home Mountain: Salt Lake City, Ut Goofy or Regular: Sponsors: Roxy, Salomon, Nixon & Sobe  Yummbo what a snow bunny |
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Post by beatie06 on Feb 14, 2006 21:23:39 GMT -5
DAY 4 OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS
Note on Day 3
ICE HOCKEY WOMEN
The Hapless Italy losses to sweden 11-0
FIGURE SKATING
The Chinese pair of Zhang and Zhang were the last to take the ice on the night of the free skate. Zhang Dan suffered a very bad fall after attempting a quadruple-salchow throw early in their free skate. After a pause, the couple continued their routine and made only minor mistakes. Their courage was rewarded with silver medals. Finishing 2nd in both parts of the competition, their overall score was 189.73 pts.
ALPINE SKIING
Gold Ted Ligety (USA) 3:09.35
Silver Ivica Kosteliæ (CRO) 3:09.88
Bronze Rainer Schönfelder (AUT) 3:10.67
WORST AUSSIE: Jono Brauer crashed out in downhill
BIATHLON MENS SPRINT 10 km
Gold Sven Fischer (GER) 26:11.6 (0)
Silver Halvard Hanevold (NOR) 26:19.8 (0)
Bronze Frode Andresen (NOR) 26:31.3 (1)
BEST AUSSIE: Cameron Morton (82nd)
LUGE WOMEN
Gold Sylke Otto (GER) 3:07.979
Silver Silke Kraushaar (GER) 3:08.115
Bronze Tatjana Hüfner (GER) 3:08.460
A GERMAN TRIFECTA.
RETIREMENTS: 18
BEST AUSSIE: Hannah Campbell Pegg (23rd)
SPEED SKATING WOMEN 500m
Gold Svetlana Zhurova (RUS) 76.57 (38.23–38.34)
Silver Wang Manli (CHN) 76.78 (38.31–38.47)
Bronze Ren Hui (CHN) 76.87 (38.60–38.27)
CROSS COUNTRY
MENS TEAM SPRINT
Gold Sweden (Thobias Fredriksson, Björn Lind)
Silver Norway (Jens Arne Svartedal, Tor Arne Hetland)
Bronze Russia (Ivan Alypov, Vasili Rotchev)
WOMENS TEAM SPRINT
Gold Sweden (Lina Andersson, Anna Dahlberg)
Silver Canada (Sara Renner, Beckie Scott)
Bronze Finland (Aino Kaisa Saarinen, Virpi Kuitunen)
ICE HOCKEY WOMEN
SEMIFINALS (Friday February 17): Finalnd vs. Canada, USA vs. Sweden.
MEDAL TALLY TOP 10
USA 5 Gold 2 silver
Russia 4 gold 3 silver 2 bronze
Germany 4 gold 1 silver 2 bronze
Sweden 2 gold
NORWAY 1 gold 5 silver 5 bronze
Netherlands 1 gold 2 silver
Canada and South Korea 1 gold 1 silver 1 bronze
Italy 1 gold 2 silver
France 1 gold 1 silver
I think Cesana Pariol is Becoming a Bradbury of Luge Track.
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Post by Beatie06 on Feb 14, 2006 22:21:08 GMT -5
Also Craig Branch didn"t Complete in it Barstards  |
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Post by NieMMY on Feb 15, 2006 0:38:55 GMT -5
Craig Branch was he much of a medal hope Beatie?
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Post by beatie06 on Feb 15, 2006 20:29:37 GMT -5
DAY 5 OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS
SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING
WOMENS 500m
Gold Wang Meng (CHN) 44.345
Silver Evgenia Radanova (BUL) 44.374
Bronze Anouk Leblanc-Boucher (CAN) 44.759
Mens 1km
Mark Mcnee miss again in the 2nd race
Mens 5km relay
Aussies Have to go B Finals
SKIING DOWNHILL WOMEN
Gold Michaela Dorfmeister (AUT) 1:56.49
Silver Martina Schild (SUI) 1:56.86
Bronze Anja Pärson (SWE) 1:57.13
MENS MOGULS
AUSSIE DALE BEGG SMITH WINS THE EVENT WITH A GOLD MEDAL AND THAT's THE THIRD TIME AUSTRALIA HAVE SCORED A GOLD MEDAL SINCE STEVEN BRADBURY WON IT IN SALT LAKE CITY AND NOW HE IS AUSTRALIA's FIRST MOGULS SKIER TO WIN A GOLD MEDAL.
Gold Dale Begg-Smith (AUS) 26.77
Silver Mikko Ronkainen (FIN) 26.62
Bronze Toby Dawson (USA) 26.30
BEST AUSSIES: NICK FISHER (12th),MIcheal Robertson (24th), Golden Dale"s Brother Jason Begg Smith (29)
LUGE
MENS DOUBLE
Gold Linger & Linger (AUT) 1:34.497
Silver Florschütz & Wustlich (GER) 1:34.807
Bronze Plankensteiner & Haselrieder (ITA) 1:34.930
NORDIC COMBINED TEAMS
High winds in the ski jumping hill force the jury to abandon the team competition midway through the second round. The teams will resume tomorrow
MEDAL TALLY TOP 10
1 United States 5 2 1 8
2 Russian Federation 4 3 2 9
3 Germany 4 2 2 8
4 Austria 2 2 1 5
5 Sweden 2 0 1 3
6 Norway 1 5 5 11
7 China 1 2 3 6
8 Netherlands 1 2 0 3
9 Canada 1 1 2 4
10 South Korea 1 1 1 3
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13 Australia 1 0 0 1
Estonia 1 0 0 1
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Post by Niemmy on Feb 15, 2006 20:46:55 GMT -5
At least we one a medal So whats MENS MOGULS? |
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Post by beatie06 on Feb 15, 2006 21:18:50 GMT -5
No he wasn't Well it"s Downhill event when it goes into some bumps and some Jumps. |
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Post by Niemmy on Feb 16, 2006 1:56:14 GMT -5
Oh yer I seen it on the news today "dosen't look that much fun to be honest!" Sorta looks like there having there internal organs rearanged with every run |
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Post by beatie06 on Feb 16, 2006 20:53:40 GMT -5
DAY 6 OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS
BIATHLON
7.5 km Sprint
Gold Florence Baverel-Robert (FRA) 22:31.4 (0)
Silver Anna Carin Olofsson (SWE) +2.4 (0)
Bronze Lilia Efremova (UKR) +6.6 (0)
Doping Scandel hits 15km Race
Olga Pyleva (RUS) finished the race in second place, 45.5 seconds behind Ishmouratova. However, three days after the race, it was revealed that Pyleva had failed the first of the two doping tests. She was later found to have a tainted "B" sample as well, and was stripped of her silver medal.
SO HERE MORE
Silver Martina Glagow (GER) +1:10.8 (2)
Bronze Albina Akhatova (RUS) +1:30.9 (2)
CROSS COUNTRY SKIING 10km CLassical
Gold Kristina Šmigun (EST) 27.51.4
Silver Marit Bjørgen (NOR) 28:12.7
Bronze Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen (NOR) 28:14.0
SNOWBOARDING CROSS MEN
Gold Seth Wescott (USA)
Silver Radoslav Zidek (SVK)
Bronze Paul-Henri De Le Rue (FRA)
BEST AUSSIE Damon Hayler (7th)
FIGURE SKATING MEN
Gold Evgeny Plushenko (RUS) 258.33
Silver Stéphane Lambiel (SUI) 231.21
Bronze Jeffrey Buttle (CAN) 227.59
SPEED SKATING
MENS TEAM PURSUIT
Gold Italy (Matteo Anesi, Stefano Donagrandi, Enrico Fabris, Ermanno Ioriatti, Ippolito Sanfratello) 3:44.46
Silver Canada (Arne Dankers, Steven Elm, Denny Morrison, Jason Parker, Justin Warsylewicz) +2.82
Bronze Netherlands (Sven Kramer, Rintje Ritsma, Mark Tuitert, Carl Verheijen, Erben Wennemars) 3:44.53
WOMENS TEAM PURSUIT
Gold Germany (Daniela Anschütz Thoms, Anni Friesinger, Lucille Opitz, Claudia Pechstein, Sabine Völker) 3:01.25
Silver Canada (Kristina Groves, Clara Hughes, Cindy Klassen, Christine Nesbitt, Shannon Rempel) +1.66
Bronze Russian Federation (Yekaterina Abramova, Varvara Barysheva, Galina Likhachova, Yekaterina Lobysheva, Svetlana Vysokova) Won by overtaking
Whats this Cycling on ice
SKELETON WOMEN
Gold Maya Pedersen-Bieri 1:59.83
Silver Shelley Rudman 2:01.06
Bronze Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards 2:01.41
BEST AUSSIE Michelle Steele (13th)
NORDIC COMBINED TEAMS
GOLD Austria
SILVER Germany
BRONZE Finland
MEDAL TALLY TOP 10
1 United States 6 2 1 9
2 Germany 5 4 1 10
3 Russia 5 2 4 11
4 Austria 3 2 1 6
5 Sweden 2 1 1 4
6 Italy 2 0 3 5
7 France 2 0 2 4
8 Estonia 2 0 0 2
9 Norway 1 6 6 13
10 Canada 1 3 4 8
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AUSTRALIA 1 0 0 1
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Post by beatie06 on Feb 16, 2006 21:08:52 GMT -5
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Post by Niemmy on Feb 17, 2006 1:54:27 GMT -5
Well I suppose when you consider Australia's enviroment, it's really a wonder that we win a medal at all, Do you think Beatie But to be beaten by Italy really suxs |
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Post by Niemmy on Feb 17, 2006 1:55:59 GMT -5
So Beatie where you born in Aussie?
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Post by beatie06 on Feb 17, 2006 23:06:04 GMT -5
yes i was born an aussie
meanwhile DAY 7 OF THE WINTER OLYMPICS
CROSS COUNTRY SKIING 15km Classical Interval
Gold Andrus Veerpalu 38:01.3
Silver Lukáš Bauer 38:15.8
Bronze Tobias Angerer 38:20.5
SNOWBOARDING CROSS
Gold Tanja Frieden (SUI)
Silver Lindsey Jacobellis (USA)
Bronze Dominique Maltais (CAN)
BEST AUSSIE Emily Thomas (19th)
The final race will be well remembered for the unfortunate fall of Lindsey Jacobellis on the penultimate jump due to showboating (attempting a grab) which left Tanja Frieden to win.
SKELETON
Gold Duff Gibson 1:55.88 --
Silver Jeff Pain 1:56.14 +0.26
Bronze Gregor Staehli 1:56.80 +0.92
BEST AUSSIE Shaun Boyle (22nd)
ALPINE SKIING COMBINED WOMEN
DOWNHILL POSTONED TILL TOMMORROW
ICE HOCKEY
GOLD MEDAL MATCH
Sweden vs Canada
BRONZE MEDAL
USA vs Finland
MEDAL TALLY
1 United States 6 3 1 10
2 Germany 5 4 2 11
3 Russia 5 2 4 11
4 Austria 3 2 1 6
5 Estonia 3 0 0 3
6 Canada 2 4 5 11
7 Switzerland 2 2 2 6
8 Sweden 2 1 1 4
9 Italy 2 0 3 5
10 France 2 0 2 4
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11 Norway 1 6 6
15 Australia 1 0 0 1
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