Winter Olympics 2014 - All the best Sochi and participants!

[MarkusS]

funny only chinese stuff here, but germany is Number one. We have 5 golf medals. More than anyone else.

 

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Curling:

Another victorious day for both of our teams:

Men: Won both matches
5-4 against Switzerland
11-7 against Germany

Our Men's Team will be facing Norway and Sweden next!

Women:
7-4 against USA
Next match against GBR
Congratulations and Best of luck to both of our Teams in the next matches!

Check this one out for other teams' results on Feb 12:
Curling: Schedule and results - Sochi 2014 Olympics

 

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Figure skating - Pair Short Program Finals

Pang Qing and Tong Jian 庞清,佟健 from China

Credit: examiner.com
Pang Qing / Tong Jian (CHN) at the 2013 Cup of ChinaGetty Images/Feng Li

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Credit: gb.cri.cn
Pang and Tong performed very well during the first day of the event

Credit: ChinaDaily
China's Pang Qing (L) and Tong Jian compete during the figure skating pairs short program at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, February 11, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]
Pang and Tong were the Silver Medalists in the Last Olympics.
They finished 4th in Sochi skating beautifully in harmony to the music "I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables"
The completion of the Olympics in Sochi puts an almost perfect full stop to their careers.
After the Olympics, they are going to get married! Congratulations and all the Best!

List of honours:
2010 Olympic silver medalist, 2006 & 2010 World Champion, a five-time Four Continents champion (2002, 2004, 2008, 2009 & 2011) and the 2008 Grand Prix Final Champion.

 

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More on Figure Skating - Pairs Short Program

Gold medals go to
Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia who beat their compatriots the Klimov and Stolbova pair skating in the music of the opera Jesus Christ Superstar composed by AL Weber

Credits: sochi2014

FUKUOKA, JAPAN - DECEMBER 06: Cheng Peng and Hao Zhang of China compete in the pairs short program during day two of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final 2013/2014 at Marine Messe Fukuoka on December 6, 2013 in Fukuoka, Japan. (Photo by Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images)
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彭程、张昊（男）Cheng Peng and Hao Zhang (Man) of China skated to the beautiful music of Yellow River Concerto which was originally composed by 冼星海 Xinghai Xing. They had a couple of major errors and finally finished 8th out of 16 competitors in the same event as above.

 

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Credit; ChinaDaily
China's Zhang Yiwei performs a jump during the men's snowboard halfpipe semi-final event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, in Rosa Khutor February 11, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]

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China's Zhang Yiwei performs a jump during the men's snowboard halfpipe final event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, in Rosa Khutor February 11, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]

Zhang finished 6th while teamate Wancheng SHI finished one place behind Zhang out of 12 finalists!

Full results here:
Men's Halfpipe Finals - Snowboard - Sochi 2014 Olympics

 

[krash]

His cousin represented Pakistan in the last Olympics. He had the same story.

Mohammad Karim, sole representative of Pakistan in Winter Olympics | Pakistan Today
Karim in Sochi due to last-minute change in SFP stance - DAWN.COM

 

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^^ WE both had proud moments! in the Opening and Flag Raising Ceremonies!

and SMILING faces and lots of honour and fun!

 

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His cousin represented Pakistan in the last Olympics. He had the same story.

Mohammad Karim, sole representative of Pakistan in Winter Olympics | Pakistan Today
Karim in Sochi due to last-minute change in SFP stance - DAWN.COM

Salute to the Pak spirit n to this guy.. Good luck to him ..Pakistan prays for his son..

 

[krash]

Salute to the Pak spirit n to this guy.. Good luck to him ..Pakistan prays for his son..

He's also found many lady admirers over at 9gag.com.

 

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First GOLD China!
李坚柔 Li Jianrou @ Women's 500m short track

(L-R) Silver medalist Arianna Fontana of Italy, gold medalist Jianrou Li of China and bronze medalist Seung-Hi Park of Korea during the flower ceremony for the Short Track Speed Skating Ladies' 500 m Final!
All beautiful althletes on the podium!

(L-R) Elise Christie of Great Britain, Qiuhong Liu of China and Jianrou Li of China compete in the Short Track Speed Skating Ladies' 500m Semifinal

(L-R) Jianrou Li of China and Valerie Maltais of Canada compete in the Women's Short Track 500m heats

Gold medalist Jianrou Li of China celebrates during the flower ceremony for the Short Track Speed Skating Ladies' 500 m Final

All the above credits: sochi2014

Drama at the race - all the other girls clash and fell on the track while Li skates on and wins the Gold
Photo Credit: abc.net.au

The British skater appeared to be the first to trip and fell sweeping the other skaters except Li to fall like dominoes. Their bodies were once scattering all over the track before anyone could pick up her gait and speeded on chasing after Li for the next otherwise fast vanishing medals
Photo credit: Telegraph

Dramatic win, emotional hugs for the Golden girl!
Photo credit: Sina sports

 

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2nd GOLD China!
张虹 Zhang Hong @ Ladies' 1000m Speed Skating !

Credit: xinhua

Zhang became the first Chinese Athlete to win a medal in Speed Skating Events - and a GOLD!

Ireen Wust of the Nethelands captures a silver medal

Ireen Wust of the Nethelands

All above credits SinaSports or otherwise stated

Zhang Hong from China won 1000 m speed skating. Zhang, 25 years old, got ahead of two Holland sportswomen: Ireen Wurst who was the champion on the distance 3000 m on Sunday and a bronze medalist on 500 m Margot Boer.
Credit: Sochi2014

Results and time differences of Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists are:
1 CHN Hong ZHANG 14.02 0.00
2 NED Ireen WUST 14.69 +0.67
3 NED Margot BOER 14.90 +0.88
Two other Chinese skaters have also entered the competition
王北星 Beixing Wang and 李丹 Dan Li finished the race at 14th and 34th out of 36 altheletes

 

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He's also found many lady admirers over at 9gag.com.

This is a great incentive motivating your althletes to train and work hard for the honour of your Country!

 

[Tractor]

First GOLD China!
李坚柔 Li Jianrou @ Women's 500m short track

Drama at the race - all the other girls clash and fell on the track while Li skates on and wins the Gold
Photo Credit: abc.net.au

Take a glance at how Li's gold medal gotten.This is game dramatic!
[冬奥会]中国首金 李坚柔获短道速滑500米金牌_2014冬奥新闻_视频_央视网

 

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Take a glance at how Li's gold medal gotten.This is game dramatic!
[冬奥会]中国首金 李坚柔获短道速滑500米金牌_2014冬奥新闻_视频_央视网

I have seen the race 2 times and I have talked about the clashes and dramatic finishing in the above post
dont want to waste my time seeing it again!

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

First GOLD China!
李坚柔 Li Jianrou @ Women's 500m short track

(L-R) Silver medalist Arianna Fontana of Italy, gold medalist Jianrou Li of China and bronze medalist Seung-Hi Park of Korea during the flower ceremony for the Short Track Speed Skating Ladies' 500 m Final!
All beautiful althletes on the podium!

(L-R) Elise Christie of Great Britain, Qiuhong Liu of China and Jianrou Li of China compete in the Short Track Speed Skating Ladies' 500m Semifinal

(L-R) Jianrou Li of China and Valerie Maltais of Canada compete in the Women's Short Track 500m heats

Gold medalist Jianrou Li of China celebrates during the flower ceremony for the Short Track Speed Skating Ladies' 500 m Final

All the above credits: sochi2014

Drama at the race - all the other girls clash and fell on the track while Li skates on and wins the Gold
Photo Credit: abc.net.au

The British skater appeared to be the first to trip and fell sweeping the other skaters except Li to fall like dominoes. Their bodies were once scattering all over the track before anyone could pick up her gait and speeded on chasing after Li for the next otherwise fast vanishing medals
Photo credit: Telegraph

Dramatic win, emotional hugs for the Golden girl!
Photo credit: Sina sports

She is definitely badass.