[WDHIII]

Eric Lamaze - Gold in Equestrian Individual Jumping

[bootlegga]

Yippee! Way to go!

[Hyack]

Heymans wins silver in 10-metre platform


Canadian diver Emilie Heymans turned in her best-ever individual Olympic performance, capturing a silver medal Thursday in the women's 10-metre platform.

Heymans, who hails from St-Lambert, Que., secured her second-place standing with a stellar fifth and final dive at the National Aquatics Center, for a total score of 437.05.

"I'm just really happy. It's hard work for my entire life that came through now," Heymans told CBC Sports after receiving her medal. "I trained really hard for this and I'm just really happy that I finally get a medal in my individual event.

"I think my training was going really well and I was able tonight to stay focused on what I had to do, and not stay focused on my result or on how the other divers were doing. I think that was the big key."

Heymans bested her fourth-place finish at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens and fifth-place showing in Sydney in 2000 to earn Canada its 14th medal in Beijing.

Fellow Canadian Marie-Eve Marleau of Laval, Que., finished seventh Thursday in the field of 12 with a score of 332.10.



Lamaze wins equestrian gold for Canada

Equestrian Eric Lamaze of Schomberg, Ont., won the gold medal in the Olympic individual show-jumping competition Thursday.

Riding a horse named Hickstead, the Canadian defeated Sweden's Rolf-Goran Bengtsson in a jump-off to earn Canada's third gold medal of the Beijing Games.

Thursday's victory was sweet redemption for Lamaze, who missed out on the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Sydney Games due to positive drug tests. He's also a member of the Canadian team that won silver in the team jump competition on Monday.

"When you give people chances and allow them to come back from their mistakes, great things happen and I'm a perfect example that you shouldn't give up on people," an emotional Lamaze told CBC Sports.

It was also Canada's first-ever individual equestrian gold medal and just the second individual show jumping medal in Olympic history. Michel Vaillancourt won an individual silver medal at the 1976 Games in Montreal.

[WDHIII]

Watched Lamaze win the Gold - was fantastic! 3 perfect runs for GOLD!


Um......... Hyack? Wassup with yur sig?

[Alta_redneck]

WTG Hickstead, oh yea and the same to the guy you carried around on your back.

[WDHIII]

Alta_redneck wrote:

WTG Hickstead, oh yea and the same to the guy you carried around on your back.

[Hyack]

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Um......... Hyack? Wassup with yur sig?

It looks okay to me, what's the problem?

[Alta_redneck]

On a more serious note, man I sure miss Don Witman calling the Track and Field events. Having Don there calling Bolt’s races would have been incredible.

[WDHIII]

Hyack wrote:

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Um......... Hyack? Wassup with yur sig?

It looks okay to me, what's the problem?

This is what it looks like to me........

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[Hyack]

WDHIII wrote:

Hyack wrote:

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Um......... Hyack? Wassup with yur sig?

It looks okay to me, what's the problem?

This is what it looks like to me........

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Curious, I reloaded it....still looks the same to me.....anyone else see it as Wil?

[WDHIII]

Looks good now Hyack!!

[Hyack]

Thanks Wil.....

[lily]

I've seen a couple of sigs that looked like the one Wil attached.... I thought it was some sort of inside joke.

Yours looks good now, Hyack.

[Hyack]

Van Koeverden 8th in K-1 1000

Canadian Adam van Koeverden finished eighth out of nine paddlers in the K-1 1000, a race in which he was expected to win a medal.

Van Koeverden, one of the most celebrated Canadian athletes in Beijing, was one of the strongest medal contenders heading into this race. He won two gold medals and one bronze in three World Cup races this season.

He also claimed the bronze in the 1000 at the 2004 Athens Games as well as three silvers (2003, 2005, 2007) at world championships.

Canada's Hall wins bronze in C-1 1000

Canadian Thomas Hall won a bronze medal in the C-1 1000 on Friday, moving from fourth to third in the final 200 metres. He finished in a time of three minutes and 53.653 seconds.

Hungarian Attila Vajda (3:50.467) captured the gold while Spaniard David Cal (3:52.751) took the silver. Both men were strong medal contenders heading into the race.

"I'm ecstatic. I don't know what else to say," Hall told CBC Sports. "I knew I had the ability but I didn't know if I really had it on today. I'm really thrilled and I couldn't be happier.

"It was all adrenaline," he said of the final 200 metres. "I looked a little earlier and knew I was sitting in fourth. I have raced that guy a lot and I know he has gotten faster but I couldn't feel a thing. It was really great."

[ShepherdsDog]

WDHIII wrote:

Watched Lamaze win the Gold - was fantastic! 3 perfect runs for GOLD!


Um......... Hyack? Wassup with yur sig?

They say that if you give K to horses they are able to jump higher. Is that because they think they can fly?