Double Gold!

Charles Hamelin brought home double gold for Canada tonight, our 9th and 10th of these games, first in the Men's 500m Short Track, and then 35 minutes later, as part of the our Men's 5000m Short Track Relay team.

In the 500m race, Hamelin was joined on the podium by Francois-Louis Tremblay who took bronze after American superstar Apolo Ohno was (controversially) disqualified for placing a hand on Tremblay's hip as they rounded a corner and Tremblay's subsequent fall.

Earlier in the day, the Canadian Women's Curling Team looked like they had gold sewed up, after stealing two in the 7th end, and another in the 9th, to take a two point lead into the final end. However, a last rock mistake by skip Cheryl Bernard in the 10th allowed Sweden to score two to tie, then in the extra end, she missed a last rock double takeout to allow Sweden to steal the gold, with Canada settling for the silver.

In a huge shock today, our Women's 3000m Team Pursuit long track skating team was eliminated from medal contention by the USA. Our team holds the world record in this event. On the other hand, our men's team won their semi-final and will race for the gold. Also still chasing gold are the Men's Curling Team, and the Men's Hockey Team (after narrowly holding off Slovakia today).

The USA vs Canada Hockey final promises to generate huge ratings for both CTV and NBC, and should provide a thrilling finish to these Olympic Games.

With four medals today, and a total of 21 for the games, Canada sits in third place behind the USA with 34, and Germany with 27. However, we do lead all countries with 10 gold, one more than Germany, and two more than the USA and Norway. With several more chances for gold, we could take a run at the Winter Games record of 13 gold medals.

Here's a short video recap of some Canadian highlights so far...