Post-Olympic hangover. It's getting kinda' ugly.

Expect more of this stuff as journalists write Olympic wrap up stories. Gil LeBreton of the Star-Telegraph goes off on the Vancouver Olympics.

Vancouver Sun writer Jeff Lee shoots back at Gil LeBreton.

Random Numbers

As the final weekend of the Olympics wound down, I did a little book keeping. Here are the results:
-Number of Olympic sports venues visited: 8 (Everyone but curling)
-Sport attended the most: Hockey (6.5 games)
-Number of slices of pizza-by-the-slice shop pizza eaten: 14 (way too many)
-Number of alcoholic beverages consumed: 6 (way too few)
-Amount spent on Canadian prepaid mobile phone service: $110
-Number of tiny, hotel bottles of shampoo used: 4
-Amount spent on laundry for entire Olympics: $150
-Number of pins traded: <12
-Number of times granola bar and Gatorade substituted for a meal: Countless
-Amount of Official Olympic Sponsor, McDonald's food consumed: ZERO

Finland Wins Bronze

 

The two faces of a single game

 

 

Seal the Deal

Team Finland scrambles to defend a precarious 4-3 lead late in the third period

 

Nervous fans cheer and wave flags as Finland tries to hold on against a tenacious Slovak team

 

Finland's Big Third Period

Niklas Hagman's third period, power play goal to break the streak of 3 consecutive Slovak tallies unleashed a furious comeback by Team Finland

 

Olli Jokinen about to beat Halak's glove hand to knot the game up at 3-3

 

Fans press up against the glass as the Finns celebrate Jokinen's game-tying goal in the third period

 

Kiprusoff lifts his game

Here he makes a big stick save in the third period to keep the deficit at two goals

 

Slovakia Charges Back

Miikka Kiprusoff was shaky in the second period as he gave up 3 unanswered goals. The first goal was by Marian Gaborik on Slovakia's first power play of the game

 

Marian Hossa gave Slovakia the lead on a power play goal

 

After this short-handed goal by Pavol Demitra, the Finns were in a 1-3 hole with only one period left in the game

 

Physical Play

The Finnish defense played a physical game in there own end during the first period

 

 

Finns take the early lead

A tense battle for the puck in front of the Slovak goal early in the mens ice hockey bronze medal game

 

The puck shot by Sami Salon eventually finds the back of the net to give the Finns a 1-0 lead

 

Finnish Strong

Captain Saku Koivu fires up his team before the bronze-medal game against Slovakia. The team wanted to bounce back from a dismal performace the day before against the US