Olympic Medals Plaza

Olympic Medals Plaza

Banners of the City

The speed skater

Looming above

Janet waits for the show

Steve Young, Mormon

Acrobats start things off

Cirque d'Olympics

More acrobatics

The Flame

Flamin' Flame

Rings on the Wasatch Mtns

Sure is cold out

Much better

USA's Witty gets the Gold

Bobsled medals

Aussie girl gets Gold

Women's Aerials gold

Germany cleans up
   
Motherhips at the Zephyr
   

 

The Medals Ceremony was a very unique Olympic experience. Steve Young, the Son of Utah, was the host and Caroline Rhea was the warm-up comedian. Cirque du Soleil-style acrobats twirled on stage, and the flame was unveiled in a shower of sparks. But the medal presentations stole the show. USA's Chris Witty won gold in speedskating, so we heard the Star Spangled Banner play as our flag was raised over the crowd. We also got to see the Bobsleigh medals awarded for the 2-Man event we had seen the day before. The Germans really cleaned up, with three golds awarded that night. A Barbie-doll lookalike Aussie gal won gold for women's aerials, flanked by tow Canadians. The outfits with the most flair were definitely the Swiss silver coats, a cross between the Kaga Takeshi of Iron Chef and Ming the Merciless. Nelly Furtado closed the night, but we made our way to the Olympic Store, where the line was only 10 minutes long instead of the usual hour. After that we went to the nearby Zephyr club to catch the Motherhips, then caught the last shuttle of the night to our Grand Vitara.

Final Medal Count:

Speed Skating - Ladies 1000 m
Gold medal United States of America WITTY, Chris
1:13.83  
Silver medal Germany VOELKER, Sabine
1:13.96
Bronze medal United States of America RODRIGUEZ, Jennifer
1:14.24
2-Man Bobsled
Germany1-
LANGEN/ ZIMMERMANN
3:10.11
Swiss1 -
REICH/ANDERHUB
3:10.20
Swiss2 -
ANNEN/HEFTI
3:10.62
Freestyle - Women's Aerials
CAMPLIN, Alisa
193.47
BRENNER, Veronica
190.02
DIONNE, Deidra
189.26
Biathlon - Women's 4x7.5 km Relay
APEL, Katrin
HENKEL, Andrea
DISL, Uschi
WILHELM, Kati
1:27:55.0
ANDREASSEN, Gunn Margit
POIREE, Liv Grete
SKJELBREID, Ann Elen
TJOERHOM, Linda
1:27:55.0
PYLEVA, Olga
KOUKLEVA, Galina
ISHMOURATOVA, Svetlana
AKHATOVA, Albina
1:29:19.7
Ski Jumping - Team K120
UHRMANN, Michael HOCKE, Stephan HANNAWALD, Sven SCHMITT, Martin 974.1
AHONEN, Janne HAUTAMAEKI, Matti JUSSILAINEN, Risto LINDSTROEM, Veli-Matti 974.0
FRAS, Damjan KRANJEC, Robert PETERKA, Primoz ZONTA, Peter 946.3
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