Posts Tagged ‘ medals ’

Olympics: Canada’s best third best showing ever

Aug 24th, 2008 | By Brian Leon | Category: Commentary

Even though there is one day of competition yet for the Beijing Olympic Games, Canada’s involvement has ended on Saturday with one more medal, silver for Adam Van Koeverden in the men’s 500m kayak race. That brings Canada’s medal total to 18 overall, its third best showing ever after the 44 medals won at the [...]



Olympics: Week 1 complete - Canada comes back

Aug 17th, 2008 | By Brian Leon | Category: Bejing Olympics 2008

So here it is after one week of competition.
So far it has been a pretty good olympics. Many of the compeititions have been exciting to watch to be sure especially on the swimming though from the coverage on NBC, it was more like the Michael Phelps show. Question is what NBC is going to [...]



Olympics: Jinxing the athletes?

Aug 11th, 2008 | By Brian Leon | Category: Bejing Olympics 2008

Not a great day for Canada on Monday’s actions at the Beijing Olympics. Another day without any medals along with some performances that were less than sub par in some cases, others better than expected but still short.
Many sports had medal events which Canada was not expected to do well like the lightweight weightlifting events. [...]