Category: Sports

Our amazing male team (Nelson, Richardsson, Olsson and Hellner) defended their gold in relay 4x10km cross country from Vancouver!

Our cross country teams have achieved 9 medals so far which is amazing in itself. I don’t think they have missed top 3 once so far and even taken 2 medals in the same race a couple of times.

Our curling teams are also doing great and will soon start playing in the semi final rounds.

We still have one more event with Swedish participants today – biathlon – which used to be a very big event in Sweden but this team has not proved themselves so far. Good luck today!

What a day – first our ice hockey ladies managed to turn the quarter final around and win with 4-2 and are now in the semi finals! Then our women cross country skiers (Ida Ingemarsdotter, Emma Wikén, Anna Haag, Charlotte Kalla) fought themselves to a glorious victory in the 4x5km relay. Our last lady – Charlotte Kalla – managed to catch up 26 sec to the top two and win! Amazing! A nice golden medal each as a reward.

Curling going great too. Super G down hill was a small disaster for more than the Swedish skiers.. but hockey again tonight – Sweden vs Latvia (5-3). Life is pretty good!

Oh how I wished I was tucked in my corner all day so that I could have watched our great skiers take the silver (Olsson) and the bronze (Richardsson) on the men 15k.

And also been able to watch our rock Alfredsson make the goal we needed to beat Switzerland in the ice hockey game. He is 41 years old and still going strong. Our team captain is injured and replaced by Kronwall for the rest of the Olympics.  Good thing that didn’t prevent us from winning!

This morning our guys won over China in curling – China was undefeated so far so that was a great achievement.

Watching the figure skating as we speak.. fingers crossed! (He took a new Swedish record and qualified for the singles free skating which is amazing!)

It was an exciting first half of the day with the mens slopestyle where we had three guys entering.  Henrik Harlaut made it to the final 12 and ended up on 6th place. Good job!

Our biathlon guys didn’t come thru – we need new fresh young skiers in this event.

Then our amazing Charlotte Kalla managed to get her second silver medal – this time on the 10k race.

Our guys won their curling this morning and our women won both their games. Both teams have very good chances in making it to the semifinals – great!

We have a figure skater – Majorov – compeeting tonight in the short program. He set a personal record and is currently on the 5th place. Our ladies are playing ice hockey against Russia right now – but they need to shape up in order to win.

Our pride and joy -Tre Kronor – played their first game tonight against Czechia with the great Jaromir Jagr. We will also meet Latvia and Switzerland in the first round.

We started out great with a quick 4-0 lead, then they woke up and made two quick goals but we were able to pull ourselves together and keep the distance. Perfect start!

I really hope our team will go far in this Olympics – we didn’t do too well in the last one but won gold before that.  We have a pretty strong team but are missing a couple of stars due to injuries.

Our men and women have played curling – the round robin continues – with some wins and some losses. I don’t really know how far it will take them. Two of our ladies have competed in the downhill but with no top ten result.

What a day! One silver and one bronze to our excellent skiers Peterson and Jönsson. And we even had 3 skiers in the final but the third one came in last.

Our hockey ladies won towards Germany! Good job! Much more stabile than the first game.

A few more good results but no more medals.

Moguls today.. both our guys made it to the finals. 

Curling-day too. Both the ladies and men won their first games.

Biathlon didn’t go too well though..

Good start for Damkronorna – our women hockey team with victory 1-0 towards Japan.

A second silver today in skiathlon! Congratulations to Marcus Hellner!

The first day has almost come to an end – and Sweden has been rewarded with a silver medal in skiathlon. Congratulations Charlotte Kalla!

Sven Thorgren came 4th in the slopestyle but he did so good we all thought he would receive a medal. But the judges didn’t agree. 

The other Swedes had an ok day but no more top 5.

The Olympic Games in Sotji has started. The 22nd winter games since the first one back in 1924 when it was held in Chamonix, France.

The opening ceremony was spectacular, as to be expected. The first winter games to be held in Russia – they have only hosted a summer game before.

Tretjak lit the olympic fire together with Rodnina. A goalie of rank and a figure skater queen got the honor. Lovely. They were given the torch from Karelin – the Greco-Roman wrestler – Karelin’s wrestling record is 887 wins and only two losses in his entire sport career. Try and beat that – if you can!

Now let’s hope our Swedish athletes win some victories and bring home lots of good memories and are proud to be part of the Olympic Games. I know we have a good team and I hope they will able to perform on the amazing level that got them to be part of our team.

May the best athlete win and the games begin!