Category: Sports

What a day!

First we won the ice hockey quarter final with 5-0 towards Slovenia. Finland just defeated Russia and will be our opponents in the semi finals.

Then we managed to achieve two bronze medals in the team sprint classic – and our curling ladies played themselves to the finale by defeating Switzerland in the semi finals.

Now we have another semifinal in curling today – the guys this time – and also our figure skater Victoria Helgesson is competing.

 

Not a very exciting day for Sweden. Our giant slalom ladies all managed to complete their race but no medals unfortunately. 
Tomorrow will be a much more eventful day starting with the quarter final in ice hockey.

What a day – biathlon postponed one more day and not much else to do than wait for that fog to go away.

Sweden-USA in the ladies semi finals in ice hockey.. not going too well though with a crushing 6-1 lead for the US as we speak. But, it is very good that we have managed to get this far considering we are not a top hockey nation and not even ranked very high. A bronze game awaits on Thursday – most likely towards Switzerland (they are playing Canada tonight).

Still some curling left today to enjoy – other than that no more Swedish participants today as far as I know.

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..