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WARNING. If you’re waiting to find out how Apolo Anton Ohno does
by watching NBC’s delayed TV broadcast, don’t read this.
5,000 Relay: Ohno gets his eighth career medal as U.S. finishes
third behind Canada and China.
500 Finals: We’re a few minutes away fro Ohno’s shot at an
eighth medal. They skate the B final first, then the A final. Lace
up the skates tight, it’s gonna be exciting. The B final is
important because it not only determines their final Olympic rank,
but if a couple skaters go down in the A final — and that’s not out
of the question — then the top two B final skater would move up to
third.
Ohno DQ’d. Canada 1-2. Ohno finished second but after review,
the judges evidently felt he got up on Tremblay’s back, knocking
him down,which also led to the Korean crashing. So Hamelin-Tremblay
go 1-2 and Sung Si-Bak is third. It’ll be interesting to hear what
Ohno has to say. But first, he’s a good the 5,000 free relay to
skate.
Here’s a press release from the USOC on the race:
Apolo Anton Ohno (Seattle, Wash.) was
disqualified from the final in the men’s 500m race in short track
speedskating competition at the Pacific Coliseum Friday evening.
Entering the final turn in fourth place and trying to find room on
the inside, Ohno made contact with Canada’s Francois-Louis Tremblay
and sent him sliding into the padding. The gold medal went to
Canada’s Charles Hamelin in 40.981 seconds, with the silver claimed
by Si-Bak Sung of Korea. Tremblay won the bronze medal.
Semifinals: Ohno won his semifinal heat to move into the
finals. It’s down to four skaters, going for three medals. Ohno is
the defending Olympic champ in the 500 meters, but he wasn’t
favored. He’ll be up against Canadians Charles Hamelin and
Francois-Louis Tremblay and Si-Bak Sung of South Korea. Korean
Yoon-Gy Kwak bit it during this heat, opening the gate for Ohno to
move into a position to take the lead, which he did on the next to
last lap when he passed Tremblay. Ohno pumped his fist at the
finish line.
Back to the earlier post:
Quarterfinals: Ohno had the inside lane but was
last out of the first turn of the 500 meter race. He got a break
when Thibaut Fauconnet of France fell. No contact. Just lost it,
taking out Germany’s Tyson Heung in the process. Jon Eley of
Great Britian and Ohno were able to avoid the carnage and cruised
to the finish. Top two in each of four quarterfinal heats moves on
to the semifinals.
The semis will feature three Canucks, three Koreans, Ohno and
Eley. I’m not sure how they’ll be paired in the semis, but top two
out of each semifinal heat advances to the finals. Ohno won this
even in Italy in 2006, but the thinking is he might be too old to
repeat in this fast and furious event. It’s an all-out sprint. Oh,
yeah, he’s 27. Not old by my standards.
Just got the semifinal pairings and there’s five skaters in the
first semi:
Semi 1: Charles Hamelin, Canada; Si-Bak Sung, Korea, Jean
Oliver, Canada; Jon Eley, Great Britain; Tyson Heung, Germany (they
let Heung in because of the accident that took him out; hmm, didn’t
know they did that, but I don’t cover a lot of short-track
skating).
Semi 2: Ohno, Ho-Suk Lee, Korea, Francois-Louis Tremblay,
Canada; Yoon-Gy Kwak, Korea.
By the way, there’s quite a few empty seats, especially in the
lower bowl. I’m sure that has something to do with the semifinal
hockey game: Canada vs. Slovakia, which starts at 6:30 p.m.
Women’s quarterfinals in the 1,000 meters are currently going
on. Men’s semis are scheduled for a 6:43 start.
– Chuck Stark
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