18 medals. We're only at the checkpoint. The U.S. had 25 medals in Torino. Canada had 24. We only have 7 at Vancouver. It seems playing at home is a serious disadvantage. Especially when you consider the 100 million they invested in Canadian athletes. Heck, Team Canada almost lost against Switzerland. Mind you, the only reason it went to a shootout was because of Miller's amazing acrobatics. Still, we lost a valuable point.
In figure skating Evan Lysacek of the U.S. gave the U.S. their first Olympic men's figure skating title in 22 years. He beat the heavy favorite Plushenko, who settled for silver. Medal favorite Chan of B.C. ended up in 5th. At this pace, Canada will probably end up with 12 medals, half of the total they racked up in Torino.
In other news, Slovakia stunned the world with a 2-1 win over the gold medal favorite Russians. Halak, the uber underrated goaltender of the Montreal Canadians, made 36 saves to lead the Slovak's to victory. It just goes to show how tight games can be in the Men's league. In the Women's league you basically only have two teams that have any skill: Team Canada and Team U.S.A. Women's hockey in the Olympics will probably be cancelled at the next Olympics; kinda like what they did with women's softball.
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