Beating Canada 7-4 last Sunday, 9 April 2006 in Lowell, Massachusetts, David Murdoch took time to celebrate this huge achievement with team-mates and family. He’s the newest World Champion Curling Skip!
Why is it an achievement? Murdoch and his team of Euan Byers, Warwick Smith, Ewan MacDonald and Peter Smith, are only the fourth Scottish team to hold the coveted title.
First ever was Perth’s Chuck Hay in the 1960s then 30 years after it was Perth’s Danny Smith’s turn in 1991. And then it was Stranraer’s Hammy McMillan in 1999.
After their disappointing loss against the US in the bronze medal play-off …read more

Xiaopeng Han’s (China) aerial acrobatics propelled him to first place in the Men’s Aerial Freestyle Skiing event. Han’s total score was 250.77, 2.09 points ahead of his nearest competitor, Dmitry Dashinski (Belarus), and 4.01 ahead of the bronze medalist, Vladimir Lebedev (Russia).

The ‘Hurricane’ a la Peterson (Source: AP Photo)

American Jeret “Speedy” Peterson’s signature move, the Hurricane, didn’t win him first place but inspired awe and admiration in all those present.

Just a day after Shaun White “The Flying Tomato” and Danny Kass took gold and silver in the men’s halfpipe, Hannah Teter and Gretchen Bleiler also went 1-2 with the gold going to Teter, and Bleiler taking the silver.
You can watch it sometime tonight, with coverage kicking off at 8pm Eastern.

After a promising start with a gold yesterday, Canada had a slow day with a bronze medal. A few athletes underperforming.
In light of this and after 2 days of competition, I would like to know your opinion on Canada’s goal of getting 25 medals in Torino.
In Salt Lake City, Canada got 17 medals, a record in recent Olympics. Now going from 17 to 25 medals would be a 28% improvement. Is that really realistic?
I created a poll with DPoll where you can vote. If an admin of the site can put the code in iframes it would be sharp, otherwise, …read more