Olympic News Circle: Summer & Winter Olympics

Canadian Francois-Louis Tremblay won the silver medal in the men’s 500-metre short-track race Saturday.Tremblay finished in a time of 42.002 seconds, just back of gold-medal winner Apolo Anton Ohno (41.935) of the United States. South Korean Ahn Hyun-Soo (42.089) was third, narrowly edging Canadian Eric Bedard (42.093), who finished fourth.

The race was expected to be a showdown between Ahn and China’s Li JiaJun. Ahn is now ranked first overall in this event, while Li is ranked second. But Li was disqualified in the semifinal. Source: cbc.ca

Canada won another silver medal today at Turino 2006 Witer Olympic Games in Short Track Speed Skating Men’s 500m. Canada now has 7 Golds, 9 Silvers, and 7 Bronzes and is currently ranked 3rd overall based on the total number of medals. Canada will be 5th place in terms of gold medal number.

TURIN, Italy — Winnipeg speedskater Clara Hughes won gold in the women’s 5,000 metres on Saturday and Cindy Klassen claimed bronze to become Canada’s most decorated Olympian.For Winnipeg’s Klassen, it’s her fifth medal of these Games and sixth of her career. For Hughes, it’s career medal No. 5.

Runner Philip Edwards and short-track speedskater Marc Gagnon held the previous Canadian record with five Olympic medals.

”It’s been an exciting Games and I couldn’t have done it without such an awesome coach and such great teammates,” Klassen told CBC. ”I’m truly so lucky to be training in Calgary and to be a Canadian.

”It’s just been awesome and I’ve had such a fun time here at the Games here that I’m going to have memories for a lifetime.”

Hughes held off three-time defending champion Claudia Pechstein of Germany to win in six minutes 59.07 seconds. Pechstein finished one second behind and took the silver. Source: canada.com

Clare Hughes captured Canada a 7th Gold medal today in Speed Skating Ladies 5000m event at Turino 2006 Winter Olympic Games. Cindy KLASSEN won a bronze medal in the same event. This will be her fifth medal in Turin Olympics.

Turino 2006 Winter Olympics is ending soon. Today is the last day of competitions. Tomorrow is the closing ceremony. Don’t know when the closing ceremony will be broadcasted on CBC. Again, if you live in Pacific Time Zone or Mountain TimeZone, let me know the broadcasting times.

Don’t know how much time is allocated in the closing ceremony to showcase the next Winter Olympic Game in Vancouver Whistler year 2010. Hopefully it will be a nice one. Gotta watch it.

Oh yeah, if you know any sources of video clips showing the opening and/or closing ceremonies of Winter Olympic Games, let me know. Thanx.

Now here is something you don’t see every day. This German guy is amazing. He won three medals in Turino 2006 Winter Olympic Games. All three are Gold Medals! All three are in Biathlon event!!! Outstanding. Triple Golds for Germany. The only athlet in Torino Olympics with triple golds.

Michael Greis’s Golds
Biathlon: Men’s 20 km Individual (February 11, 2006) ›› see the podium moment
Biathlon: Men’s 4×7.5 km Relay (February 21, 2006) ›› see the podium moment
Biathlon:Men’s 15 km Mass Start (February 25, 2006) ›› see the podium moment

Here is a commercial promotion video clip for upcoming Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Game in China. The entire movie clip is based on the theme “Stamp”—a significant Chinese culture and tradition. The “Stamp” represents the signature of an individual, a company, a corporation, etc. Whenever a stamp is imprinted on a document such as cheques and invoices, that document is deemed valid!!! It’s thus very important to safekeep the stamp. If your stamp falls on someone else’s hand, you’ll run into trouble because that someone else can represent you on a piece of paper. An imprinted stamp is the same as one’s signature.

The more complicated the stamp design, the less counterfeit will occur. Thus, the design of a stamp requires high degree of a master’s artistry, thereby conferring its beauty and most importantly its uniqueness.

Watch Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony 北京奥运开幕式 here.
Watch Beijing 2008 Olympics Promotion Video after this commercial.

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