Winter olympic 2010 Vancouver

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Winter Olympics: Canada wins gold in women’s hockey

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Feb 25th, 2010

Behind a pair of first-period goals by Marie-Philip Poulin, Canada claimed the gold medal in women’s ice hockey with a 2-0 win over the United States Friday afternoon at Canada Hockey Place.

Poulin scored at 13:55 in the first period, then followed with another at 16:50 in the same period to give Canada a lead they would not relinquish. The US peppered Shannon Szabados with 28 shots, but the Canadian goalkeeper squelched every chance.

The gold is the third in as many Olympic Winter Games for Canada, while the US picks up its second silver medal to go with a gold (1998) and bronze (2006).

 

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Canada's Marie-Philip Poulin (bottom) scores the first goal on U.S. goaltender Jessie Vetter during the first period of their women's ice hockey gold medal game at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 25, 2010.

Canada's Carla Macleod (L) and Becky Kellar (2nd L) raise their arms as they celebrate with teammates after defeating the U.S. in their women's ice hockey gold medal game at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 25, 2010.

A dejected Molly Engstrom #9 of the United States sits on the ice following her team's 2-0 defeat during the ice hockey women's gold medal game between Canada and USA.

Team Finland receive their bronze medals in the medal ceremony

Team Canada pose with the gold medals.

 

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VANCOUVER, BC - FEBRUARY 25: The national flag of Canada (gold) flies above those of the USA (silver) and Finland (bronze) during the medal ceremony

Jenny Potter #12 of the United States is joined by her children as she received her silver medal in the medal ceremony following the ice hockey women's gold medal game between Canada and USA on day 14 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at Canada Hockey Place on February 25, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.

Members of Team Canada celebrate after receiving the gold medals.

Canada's goaltender Shannon Szabados celebrates with her national flag .

 

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2010 Winter Olympics Women’s Figure Skating Free Skate Start List: Kim Yu-Na, Mao Asada and Joannie Rochette Eye Gold

Atlanta, Ga. 2/25/2010 (TransWorldNews)

After a highly competitive short program on Tuesday evening the women’s figure skating competition will take on added excitement Thursday night as the free skate program is put on display at the 2010 Winter Olympics with gold at stake.
The first skater, Tugba Karademir, is scheduled to take the ice at 8:00 p.m. ET.
Kim Yu-Na is the favorite to win gold after scoring a record 78.50 for her short program on Tuesday.
The South Korean is the 2009 Worlds champion and entered the Vancouver Olympics with expectations of winning gold but she’ll need to skate a clean performance on Thursday to lock that up and stand atop the podium.
Putting pressure on Kim Yu-Na is Japan’s Mao Asada who set the tone on Tuesday night with a remarkable 73.78 mark for her short program.
That performance certainly put her in position to challenge for gold and on Thursday night she’ll know exactly what she needs as she follows Kim Yu-Na onto the ice.
Canada’s Joannie Rochette, the sentimental favorite in the women’s figure skating event, will take the ice next to last and has a shot at gold as well. Rochette put together the performance of her life on Tuesday, less than two days after learning her mother had passed away.
The emotional short program was met with huge applause and earned her a 71.36, a personal best, and put her in medal contention.
The United States has a pair of skaters with a shot at the podium but it will take flawless execution and perhaps a slip from some of the top women for that to happen.
Rachael Flatt currently sits fifth in the standings following her 64.64 on Tuesday while her teammate Mirai Nagasu is in sixth after her 63.76.
Women’s Figure Skating Free Skate Start List for Thursday NIght:


1 TUR Tugba Karademir

2 ESP Sonia Lafuente

3 CHN Liu Yan

4 EST Elena Glebova

5 UZB Anastasia Gimazetdinova

6 GER Sarah Hecken

7 CAN Cynthia Phaneuf

8 FIN Kiira Korpi

9 AUS Cheltzie Lee

10 SUI Sarah Meier

11 HUN Julia Sebestyen

12 KOR Kwak Min-Jung

13 RUS Alena Leonova

14 JPN Akiko Suzuki

15 ITA Carolina Kostner

16 FIN Laura Lepisto

17 RUS Ksenia Makarova

18 GEO Elene Gedevanishvili

19 USA Rachael Flatt

20 JPN Miki Ando

21 KOR Kim Yu-Na

22 JPN Mao Asada

23 CAN Joannie Rochette

24 USA Mirai Nagasu

Figure skating: Can Mao Asada top Kim Yuna with her triple Axel?

This composite sequence of photographs shows Mao Asada performing her trademark triple Axel jump, followed by a double toe loop, during the women's figure skating short program at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tuesday.


Results after Tuesday night’s Women’s Figure Skating Short Program:

1 KOR Kim Yu-Na
78.50-Q

2 JPN Mao Asada
73.78-Q

3 CAN Joannie Rochette
71.36-Q

4 JPN Miki Ando
64.76-Q

5 USA Rachael Flatt
64.64-Q

6 USA Mirai Nagasu
63.76-Q

7 ITA Carolina Kostner
63.02-Q

8 RUS Alena Leonova
62.14-Q

9 GEO Elene Gedevanishvili
61.92-Q

10 FIN Laura Lepisto
61.36-Q

 

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1 Kim yu na GOLD
2 Mao asada SILVER
3 Joannie Rochette BRONZE

 

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Kim Yuna produced a riveting women's free skate to obliterate the opposition and become the first South Korean to win an Olympic figure skating gold medal.
South Korea's Kim Yu-Na - 0

The 19-year-old, already hailed as Queen Yuna by her legion of admirers, had hollering fans rushing down the aisles to salute her after she was crowned Vancouver Games champion with a record combined total of 228.56. She won by a huge margin of 23.06 points.

Japanese rival Mao Asada soared high into the air to become the only woman to land two triple Axels at the Pacific Coliseum but could not match the technical wizardry, artistry or poise of Yuna and settled for silver with 205.5.

Canada's Joannie Rochette delivered a display full of grace, beauty and guts to win the bronze medal just four days after her mother's sudden death.

 

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OK she did not skate well , but damn she is most beautiful skater ever.

 

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Queen Yuna' crowned
Kim dominates competition to make her title official

VANCOUVER — They already called her "Queen Yuna" in South Korea.
And her reign over the women's figure skating world officially began Thursday night.
Yuna Kim ended a streak of three Olympics that had not been kind to the women's figure skating favorite, instead becoming the first South Korean to win a figure skating medal of any color.

Michelle Kwan of the United States had fallen short of the gold medal she was expected to win in both 1998 and 2002, as Irina Slutskaya of Russia did in 2006.
So here was Kim, who began the season as an overwhelming favorite for the 2010 title and justified that status with a brilliant performance in Tuesday's short program, even as she bore the weight of a nation's hopes.
But she had a lead of less than five points over Japan's Mao Asada going into Thursday's long program, which lasted 90 seconds longer, plenty of time for the expectations to lead to crushing mistakes.

Not this time.

When Kim cried after finishing her free skate, they were tears of joy, the kind that come with winning an Olympic gold medal.

Kim Yu-Na wipes away tears as she comes off the ice after performing in the women's free skating figure skating event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics February 25, 2010.

There were three skaters left, including Asada, but this was game over.
The South Korean national hero may have been a little tight on some of her early jumps, but she was flawless on all and floated through the accompaniment of Gershwin's Concerto in F like a feather in the wind.
"If this was track and field, we just watched an 8-second 100 meters,'' said Jamie McGrigor, a skating analyst doing in-house radio commentary.

The judges thought so. They gave her a free skate score of 150.06, which was an astonishing 13 percent higher than her previous world record of 133.95. That gave her a total of 228.56 and what would be victory over Asada by 23 points.

"I still can't believe the score that I received, I'm really surprised,'' Kim said.
"In the past, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to do what I wanted, but I am really happy that I was able to show everything I did in training.''
The two successful triple axels Asada landed would not have made a difference even if she had not had a downgraded jump and a huge error, turning a triple toe loop into a single, later in the program.

It was hard to imagine the long program could produce more brilliance and drama than the short, when Kim followed Asada's lights-out performance with one that set a world record and Joannie Rochette fought through the pain of her mother's unexpected death three days earlier to skate flawlessly and take third.
Rochette held together again, winning the bronze medal.

Mirai Nagasu of the United States stamped herself as a contender for the 2014 Olympic title with a clean free skate that jumped her from sixth to fourth place.

 

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Fans from South Korea cheer Kim Yu-Na of South Korea as she receives the gold medal in the Ladies Free Skating during the medal ceremony on day 14 of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics at Pacific Coliseum on February 25, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.

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A man reacts as he watches a television broadcast of Japan's Mao Asada crying after the women's free skating figure skating event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, at an electronics retail store in Tokyo February 26, 2010. Asada but could not match the technical wizardry, artistry or poise of South Korea's Kim Yu-na and settled for the silver medal.​