Canada Olympic Team Makes History in Vancouver 2010

By Benjamin Bach, the Wealth Team on February 25, 2010 in kitchener waterloo

Taking a short break from Real Estate –a quick one, I promise – I want to draw attention to the amazing day our Canadian athletes had in Vancouver today.

I once joked that I preferred watching American coverage of the Olympics over Canadian television because it seemed like all the US channels showed was never ending stream of American athletes winning medals, and ours was a little more… tame. Today wasn’t like that. Today Canada silenced a lot of critics, with some amazing performance that brought in 4 medals. 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze.

Gold medalists – Heather Moyse and Kaillie Humphries. Women’s “2 man” Bobsled.

Local KW connection: Heather is a University of Waterloo graduate!

Heather missed winning a medal by .005 seconds in Turin at the 2006 games, and it inspired her to come back.

“Five one-hundredths is what made me come back to bobsledding ,” she said. “I guess I have to be thankful for that five one-hundredths because a gold in a home country with Kaillie is better than a bronze in Turin.”

Never give up – just keep trying! I only saw their last run, but they owned the track all night. I’m very proud of them.

Silver Medalists:

Helen Upperton and Shelley-Ann Brown, also in the women’s bobsled. This is the first time Canada has won 2 medals in the same event (I think)

Women’s 3000m relay – Finished third, but upgraded to silver when the Korean team was disqualified

Bronze Medal – and my personal favourite at these games so far – Clara Hughes in the 5000m speedskating

This is Clara’s 6th olympic medal, and she is the only Olympian, from any country, to have won multiple medals in both the summer and winter games. Pretty impressive, eh?

And to top it all off, Team Canada edged out a close game with the Russians 7 – 3

All in all, a great day. Go Canada Go!