The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi - Canada's Historic Figure Skating Medal

As the Winter Olmpics commence and our athletes fight hard in the hopes of winning medals, one medal has made Canadian history as of February 9th, 2014. Being second place in the figure skating events, Canada proudly took a silver medal, being just short of a gold and just above a bronze. While the medal's value in itself is amazing on Canada's part, the significance of the medal is much more outstanding.

Firstly, a bit of background knowledge. A bit before the Olympics started, it was announced that a new event would be included into the Winter Olympic itinerary. An event called Team Figure Skating. The rules are simple. Each country compiles a team of skaters based on tryouts, discipline and abilities. In that team, there must be one man, woman, pair and dance couple. When the team performs, each individual or pair will perform, their scores will be given and averaged and viola, the medals are then distributed accordingly. While this is fairly simple at first glance, there's a lot of strategy involved. For example, a medal won in this event counts for only ONE medal in the medal counter. So, should a coach put his/her best skaters in the team and win ONE gold medal or mix it up a bit so that you can lose a medal and possibly win 3 or 4 more?

(TSN wrote a WONDERFUL article about this. Check it out here! http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/story/?id=443400 )

Anyway, that's the strategy involved in this event.

In the world debut of the event, Canada did wonderfully and brought home silver. Being the first event of its kind in history, it's encouraging to know that Canada will now be added in the Olympic World Records as the first team to win a silver medal for Team Figure Skating.

All of our athletes did a wonderful job! Keep working hard everybody!

The team was as follows (Left to Right):
Patrick Chan
Kaetlyn Osmond
Dylan Moscovitch
Kirsten Moore-Towers
Kevin Reynolds
Eric Radford
Meagan Duhmel
Tessa Virtue
Scott Moir

Want to know a bit about the athletes? Check out my blog post about the athletes on this team! http://letsfindsomethinginteresting.blogspot.ca/2014/02/our-olympic-atheletes-debut-figure.html