It was back to work for me last night, where I was chaperoning for the short track speed skating - taking place were the 500 metre men's heats and the 3000 metre women's relay - if you didn't watch this race, you missed out on all the excitement. The Koreans, who originally came first, were disqualified for some type of obstruction near the end of the race, giving the Chinese team the gold, and our Canadians the silver!!!! There was lots of excitement down by the ice surface as everyone was waiting to find out if the Koreans would indeed be disqualified, thereby raising everyone's ranking by one. All were shocked when we saw the blood on the Chinese girl's face! As you can imagine, the Korean team were very disappointed and upset - luckily I wasn't the person chaperoning them...
This morning, Dale and I decided to try our luck at getting tickets for the Bronze medal women's hockey game between Finland and Sweden. We headed over to Canada Hockey place about 1/2 hour before game time and there were loads of people trying to sell tickets...by then they were just trying to sell their tickets at face value, but we decided to wait it out as there were lots of sellers, less buyers...in the end, we got $150 tickets for $40 - then moved down to the 100 section, 10 seats from the ice after the first period. It was actually a great game - going into overtime - neither of us really cared who won, though we do have a sweet spot for our favourite Swede Daniel Alfredsson...
After the game, Dale and I decided to try our luck at getting tickets for the Gold Medal Game, but it was a different scene down by the rink for this game...lots of people looking for tickets, less people selling them. We were offered tickets for $550 each, but we decided that we'd just go home and watch it on TV!!!!
After watching the game, we headed back into town to take in the Medal Ceremony at BC Place...Angie and Dale had bought tickets a while ago, but Angie had to work at the last minute so I was lucky enough to be able to use her ticket. Canadian female athletes were receiving 3 medals this evening...the silver to the short track relay team, and the gold and silver to the 2 man (woman) bob sled - and even though the bobsled team were getting their medals in Whistler and it was just a live feed into the stadium, we all stood and sung the National Anthem. After the medal ceremony, Burton Cummings played (for all you youngsters out there, he is the lead singer of the band "The Guess Who" a 70's iconic canadian band) and Dale and I knew the words to all the songs he played...at least the ones he played while we were there, cause we snuck out early to find a TV to watch Joannie Rochette skate. We did so at Saskatchewan House on the big screen..so great to see her do so well, considering the circumstances.
The Silver Medalists (Short Track)
BobSled Champs
Did you know that almost all our medals have been won by female athletes - Girls Rule!!!!!!!!
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