I'm Lovin' it

Like I said almost one week ago, the medals will come for Canada and they sure did. Lots of other great performances and close calls too. Unlike the first week, I haven't heard any Canadian athletes cry babying about lack of funding and making other excuses for their performances. Just HTFU and get the job done. These athletes are doing just that. Awesome job!

The perfect example of that was last night when Simon Whitfield clearly gave it all he had to valiantly claim a silver medal. It was truly incredible. All athletes should check out the final 5 minutes of this race to see what HTFU, giving 110%, and laying it all on the line is all about. He had nothing left by the end of the race and that is how it should be. Drain that tank and have no regrets. The bronze medal performance by Priscilla Lopes-Schliep was wicked too.

Here are the Canadian medals as of today:

Diving
Silver - Alexandre Despatie (3 M Springboard)

Equestrian Jumping
Silver - Team Canada (Mixed Team)

Trampoline
Silver - Jason Burnett (Men's Individual)
Silver - Karen Cockburn (Women's Individual)

Rowing
Gold - K. Light / B. Rutledge / A. Byrnes / J. Wetzel / M. Howard / D. Seiterle / A. Kreek / K. Hamilton / B. Price (Men's 8)
Silver - D. Calder / S. Frandsen (Men's Pair)
Bronze - I. Brambell / J. Beare / M. Lewis / L. Parsons (Men's Lightweight Skulls)
Bronze - M. Kok / T. Cameron (Women's Lightweight Double Skulls)

Swimming
Bronze - Ryan Cochrane (1500 m Free)

Track and Field
Bronze - Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (Women's 100m Hurdles)

Triathlon
Silver - Simon WHITFIELD

Wrestling Freestyle
Gold - Carol Huynh (48 kg)
Bronze - Tonya Verbeek (55 kg)

Canada's updates are available here:
http://stats.cbc.ca/olympics/medals.asp?country=CAN

We have more medals coming for sure so keep cheering and checking for updates.