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Well, it’s gonna be a little difficult to remember all the shit I watched yesterday, but I think I can get most of it.  Okay, I watched the U.S. women take on Denmark in Curling.  Something interesting about Denmark’s Women Curling team, it’s the only Danish team in this year’s Olympics.  The reason for this is because the Danish Olympic Commitee is so strict, the women’s curling team is the only team to qualify under their regulations.  Anyway, the U.S. Women defeated the Danes 8-3.  Then, I watched the Men’s U.S. Team get their asses handed to them by the Italian Curling team.  The game wasn’t very far apart, but the Italians got an early lead and held it throughout the entire game.  The final score in that match was 6-5.  It was a pretty good game.  In a new sport, Speed Skating Pursuit, the Canandian Women’s team beat the pants off the U.S. team, sending Canada to the Semi-Finals and setting a new women’s Olympic record in the sport.  The Semi-finals start list is Canada takes on Japan in Race 1 with Russia taking on Germany in Race 2.  I know for a fact that Canada will defeat Japan by at least 2-3 seconds.  As for the Germany/Russia match… I’m not so sure, the Germans looked very strong in the quarters, but so did the Russians, though not as strong as the German team.  In the men’s Team Pursuit, the semi-finals will be Italy vs. Netherlands in Race 1 and Canada taking on Norway in Race 2.  I really can’t put any bets down on that right now as all four of those teams are very strong competitors.  In the Men’s Freestyle Moguls, Australia took gold with Finland and the U.S. in Silver and Bronze.  The Australian skiier threw down a very nice run with some excellent aerials, not to mention his mogul turns and landings were damn near perfect.  We also watched some Short Track Speed Skating, the Women’s 500m Finals were pretty exciting, but really when China pushed into first right off the line, I knew that China would win.  The medals went Gold to China, Silver to Bulgaria, and Canada with Bronze. In the Men’s 1000m Short Track, the following teams made it to the Quarter Finals.  China, Italy, Slovakia, and the U.S. in Race 1, Race 2 is U.S.’s own Apolo Anton Ohno, Ahn Hyun-Soo of Korea, Poland and Germany.  Race 2 is going to be intense, if you can, catch that on Saturday, February 18 at 7pm on your local NBC station.  Race 3 had China, Hungary, Canada, Japan, and Belgium.  Race 4 will pit the Ukrain, Germany, Korea, and Canada against eachother.  I will almost guarantee that both Koreans, the Chinese, at least Apolo Anton Ohno, maybe a German, and Italian, and Ukraine will make it into the Semis.  Like I said, Race 2 will be a thing to watch, the two biggest rivals in Short Track are Apolo Anton Ohno and Ahn Hyun-Soo.  Since they are up against eachother in the same Quarter match, expect the two of them to finish first and second, but I can’t begin to figure out who will win.  The tactics styles of each of them are different.  The Koreans will wait until there are 2 or 3 laps left and come out of their draft and outside pass on every turn and straight.  Apolo will start off hanging back in second or third and he will pull ahead in lap 5 or 6 with an inside pass on the back turn.  Now what will happen when the Korean and Apolo get up to first and second… well my golf handicap could go down.  That’s how much I know what will happen.  Anything could happen with Apolo and Ahn Hyun-Soo get close to eachother.  In Men’s Doubles Luge, Austria took gold with Germany taking Silver and Italy taking Bronze.  In Ladies Alpine Downhill, the Austrian’s took Gold with the Swiss and Swedes taking Silver and Bronze.  The silver and bronze medalists didn’t even come close to the training of the Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister.  Switzerland’s Martina Schild finished over a third of a second over and Sweden’s Anja Paerson finished over two thirds of a second over.  The one German performed better than every Americna in the event.  On a final note, I took a look at the medal standings over on nbcolympics.com and currently Norway has the most total medals, but Germany is A number 1 with 5 gold medals.  The U.S. does have six, but the Men’s 15km Crosss Country Skiing, 12.5km Pursuit Biathlon and Women’s 10km Pursuit Biathlon is coming up.  Germany has always been a good contender in those events.  I expect to see Germany at least have as many medals as the U.S. if not exceed them.  Well, expect another update later tonight after I watch more Olympic footage.  Boy, the hotel VisionCon is held at better have an NBC station because if I miss the Men’s 1000m Short Track, I will flip out.