The USA won five medals yesterday, marking the most medals won in one day by a single country. One came from Bode Miller in slalom, who has so far won a bronze, sliver, and gold. He has made it to the podium for every event that he has skied so far.
Another US medal came from Lindsey Vonn, who has so far won two medals in these Olympics. Her slalom run didn't earn a medal because of a nasty crash that tore off one of her skis.
Apolo Ohno made Olympic history on Saturday by winning his seventh medal, the most ever won by an American Winter Olympian. He finished behind two Japanese skaters, earning him his legendary bronze medal.
Incredibly, the inexperienced skater from Illinois, Evan Lysacek, won gold last night after a very clean, fundamentally-sound skate. However, his win was very controversial, because the silver medalist, Evgeni Plushenko, performed the extremely difficult quadruple spin, or twist. . . whatever it's called, and still came in second. Plushenko said that he though his performance had won gold, but apparently the judges though otherwise of his skate, which wasn't quite as clean and graceful as Lysacek's (I say that any sport that requires gracefulness to be judged well is stupid. Ice dancing is even worse).
Two of the coolest sports in the Winter Olympics started this weekend: ski jumping and freestyle skiing. No American is a real contender in ski jumping, but it's still awesome to watch. Freestyle skiing is also fun to watch, partially because the US is a legitimate contender, and also because it's simply amazing watching these people do such insane, unreal tricks.
The United States still leads in the medal count with 24 medals all together, 7 of them gold, 7 of them silver, and 8 of them bronze. Germany is in close second with 20 medals, Norway has 13 medals, and Korea, Canada, Austria, and Russia are tied for fourth, each with 9 medals.
GO USA!
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