"We are all in deep shock, we don't know what to do. We don't know whether to take part in the opening ceremony or even the Olympic Games themselves. I don't know how he died but I can tell you one thing, the track was really very bad" - Georgian Olympics delegation head Irakly Japaridze after luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died hours before the Feb. 12 opening ceremony in a horrific training crash at the Whistler Sliding Centre.

"May you carry his Olympic dream on your shoulders and compete with his spirit in your hearts" - chief executive of the Vancouver Organising Committee John Furlong told Georgian athletes during the opening ceremony.

"The International Federation said what happened yesterday was human error. With all due respect..one thing I know for sure is that no sports mistake is supposed to lead to death" -- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

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The games are officially over. When International Olympics Commitee President Jacques Rogge said some variation of these words just moments ago, there were boos and overall sounds of unrest filled the Olympic Stadium in Vancouver. His announcement comes after the Olympic flag was passed from the mayor of Vancouver to the mayor of Sochi, Russia, the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Though it’s a pretty unknown place, I have the feeling that it will rise to be a good host city. The small cultural ceremony they put on tonight was interesting, featuring Russian dancers in traditional costumes as well as their world-famous ice dancers. Viewers were finally treated to a Russian opera singer, pulled around the floor by a technological troika (a sort of wagon). Many famous athletes were also shown, including Wayne Gretsky and silver medalist ice dancer Yevgeny Pleshenko.

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The moment was perhaps lost in the delirious celebrations at Canada Hockey Place, but it was possibly the most touching. At center ice for the postgame hand shakes, Ryan Miller and Lindy Ruff embraced. Only on this day, the Buffalo Sabres franchise goalie and his NHL coach were rivals. Ruff, an assistant coach with Team Canada, went home with gold, while Miller, in net for the Americans, took silver. "I just told him I was proud of the way he played," said Ruff. "I said, 'You had a hell of a tournament. You did a great job.' He was rock solid all tournament long. In a one-game showdown, you can get beat by the goaltender, and he almost did [it to us]. He really made a big statement for himself and represented our [NHL] club so well. He came here and he created a lot of hope for the U.S. team."

Miller was sensational again in Sunday's gold-medal game, stopping 36 of 39 shots. He was oh-so-close to handing his country a win no one expected, but Canada won 3-2 in overtime.

"I'm just very frustrated," said Miller, who was named MVP of the tournament. "We got ourselves in a position to win from two goals down and sudden death kind of stings, especially in this situation."Miller was proud of his team. "I thought we provided a consistent brand of hockey that got us here and we were good on defense, we were good pushing up the ice. We had every component to win. It just came down to OT.

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More history has been made again for the USA at the Winter Olympic Games. Bill DeMong and Johnny Spillane finish one and two in the Nordic Combined Individual Long Hill/10 km Cross Country event. Never before in the history of the Winter Olympics has the USA earned a gold medal in this event, let alone a gold and a silver in the same event. Nordic Combined—a sport dominated by European countries like Norway, Finland, Germany, and Austria—could be seeing a bad moon rising in the States. Austria's Bernhard Gruber took the bronze.

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Figure Skating – Ladies Free Skating – Winter Olympics beautiful ladies will be on the front of about 15,000 people to have their last performance and conclude who among them will bagged the gold medal.

Crowds’ favorite Kim Yu-Na of Korea and Mao Asada of Japan got the first and second rank respectively on their previos performances. With 78.50 points, Yuna leads Asada by 4.72. Canada’s Joannie Rochette ranked third with 71.36 and will again have to fight her emotions when she skates tonight for a medal just after few days after her mother’s sudden death.

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The IOC president said that the international luge and bobsleigh federations had the legal responsibilities for the track. “But we are morally responsible,’’ he said, revealing that the IOC would contribute to a planned luge track in Kumaritashvili’s home town. He said the death “will be part of the Vancouver Games”, just as the slaying of Israeli athletes has become synonymous with the Munich Olympics of 1972. The tragedy had cast a shadow over the Games but he would make a separate pronouncement at the closing ceremony – “in general, a positive one’’.

Meanwhile, Rogge predicted that the stadiums for the London Games would be full because of the city’s proximity to Europe. But he warned that the mix of spectators would not be as British as the local public might hope for because of European Union law.

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When she asked me, I had no answer. "But daddy," my daughter said, "I thought you knew so much about sports."Curling's different. This sport has garnered a tremendous amount of attention during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. In fact, even the Old Grey Lady has taken note.

On today's New York Times website , there's an article tying Wall Street's movers and shakers, but mostly shakers, to this boccie ball/shuffleboard-on-ice phenomenon. For a sport that's been around forever, what's all the hubbub about this time around? Perhaps it's the idea of regular looking folks participating in an Olympic event that has something to do with it. Or maybe, it's the eccentric manner in which participants cast their stones. And what's with the broom sweeping? Whatever the case, I found a clip on YouTube that uncovers the mysteries of curling.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- At some point, David Backes and U.S. teammate Ryan Kesler are going to have a chat about some of the things Kesler has whispered in his ears during the National Hockey League season.Just not now.

Not with a semifinal match with Finland on Friday and the prospect of a trip to the gold-medal game Sunday in the offing.

But it is a measure of Kesler's considerable abilities to annoy and disrupt opposing players that Backes isn't joking about hashing out an incident that took place during the playoffs last year when Kesler brought Backes' wife into some end of period trash-talking.

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Yu-Na Kim, the competitive world skater that swept the short program of the Women's Ice Skating competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics definitely has been practicing. She broke the world record of the fastest time and she it is expected she will win the Olympic gold for the Women's Figure skating.

The woman, who is a small athlete who graces the ice with an amazement can't walk down the street. Not literally, though. She has such an Asian figure skating base that she has to hire security to leave the house.The extraordinary athlete has a lot riding on the win tomorrow night at the 2010 Olympics. Her career outside of the ice rink, is why she needs to ace the gold. The popular celebrity can ask for millions for endorsement and according to several newspapers, she has endorsement deals lined up.

While America and Team USA considers our athletes to be amateurs, in other countries, athletes like Yu-Na Kim are more so professional skaters who considers their work being winning the Gold Medal.

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While U.S. athletes did not see the podium in either the men's cross-country skiing or the ladies' speedskating yesterday, they still clutched two bronze medals late in the evening in the women's bobsled and the women's 3000 meter speedskating relay, bumping the overall medal count to 28.

The men's ice hockey team shutout Switzerland 2-0 early in the day during the men's playoffs quarterfinals. Both points came during the third period by 25-year-old Zach Parise.

When Parise isn't dawning red, white and blue for the Olympic team, he plays in the National Hockey League for the New Jersey Devils.The women's ice hockey team faces Canada today for a chance at the gold in the women's gold medal game.

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