Day 23: Men's Turn Today

Well today it was the men's turn to win some medals (and of course there were still some ladies in the mix).  It started off with the ladies who won gold and silver in the Women's ski cross.  For anyone who has seen that sport or who watched it, you know in intense and nuts it is.  But also soo soo cool.  If becoming a skeletor doesn't work out, maybe the switch can be made to ski cross.  The evening was filled with success for the Canadian male athletes.  It started with the men's curling team who matched th women and won gold.  It was a pretty big blowout for the team but after the tournament they had, they are more than deserving of the gold medal.  Later in the evening, Charle Cournoyer won bronze in the men's 500m short track race.  After the last couple of days in the short track world, it was great to see the tables turn and see Canada on the podium once again.  And...(as if there even needs to be more) the men's hockey team won their semi-final game over the USA 1-0 to move into the gold medal game. 

For the four of us, our sucesses weren't as big but it was a good day regardless.  Mikaela worked the morning at the MPC and had an awesome day including a press conference with the women's hockey team.  There was a great buzz around the office and all of the MPC with the big win over the Americans and match up number two about to take place.  Our American friends from down the hall all dropped by to congratulate us and also tell us it was going to change in the men's game (guess their fortune tellers were wrong again).  The women were all sporting their gold medals and it was great to meet them all in person and get to spend a little bit of time with them.  From the MPC was work at CBC and now taking the women to their CBC interviews.  One of the interviews too place in the lobby and everyone kept stopping by to take pictures of the girls in their medals.  They did all the major interviews and were proud to show off their medals.  Some of the girls even wrote a good luck note to the men's team so that they beat the Americans.  There is never any down time at the CBC studios, so right after the hockey team left the ski cross medalists came by to do the interview circuit as well.  Marielle and Kelsey did radio, news and both French and English studio visits.  A lot to cram into an hour, but  that's how the business works.  Which is one of the neat parts about it. 

Doug, Lisa and Stacey were at Canada house and still hanging out with all the athletes and their families when they come in.  Now that competition is over, the curlers and figure skaters frequent the COH and are familiar faces near the bar.  When their shifts were over, the three of them tried to score some tickets to the semi final game but were unsuccessful.  So hanging out at Canada House to watch the game is the nest best thing.

There are only two more days left of the games and we are all starting to get a little sad while thinking about leaving the games.  Ready to go home and sleep in our real beds but nothing will compare to being at the games!