Photo: Canada’s Speed Skating, Short Track Gold medalist, Samuel, Girard. Credit: Canadian Olympic Committee
Canada Wins Gold – PyeongChang 2018 Team Canada End of Day 8
PYEONGCHANG (February 17, 2018) – Here is what you need to know about Team Canada at the end of Day 8 at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018:
| GOLD: 5 | SILVER: 5 | BRONZE: 5 | TOTAL: 15 |
RESULTS: Team Canada’s competition results
COMPETITION SCHEDULE: Team Canada Day-By-Day at PyeongChang 2018
QUICK FACTS:
- Kim Boutin wins her second Olympic bronze medal at PyeongChang 2018 and Canada’s first ever medal in the women’s 1500m short track speed skating event;
- Kim Boutin is the first Canadian female short track speed skater to win two individual medals at the same Olympic Winter Games;
- Samuel Girard captures his first career Olympic medal;
- The 1000m short track speed skating gold is Canada’s first ever in the event and the first time Canada has won an Olympic medal in the event since Salt Lake City 2002.
- Canada’s Olympic Men’s Hockey Team was edged 3-2 in a shootout loss to the Czech Republic in preliminary-round action at the Kwandong Hockey Centre in Gangneung, South Korea.
Samuel Girard on winning gold:
“I think I’m not realising right now. I think I will realise a little later. For now I’m just enjoying the moment. For my family, my coach, I’m really, really happy right now.”
On the race:
“It was a pretty good race. A fast race. I took the first place right away. Something happened at the back. I don’t want to be there when those things happen. So I really want to be in the front. That was my plan and I executed pretty well.”
On the crash involving three of the finalists:
“I didn’t see it, I just heard a big boom in the mats. After that I was just thinking about my race and what I had to do. I was looking if someone was around to pass me on the line.”
On what HAMELIN said to him before the final:
“Just before the race he said to me, ‘Let’s go, you can do this’. He gave me a tap on the back. We train together, all the team was behind me on this medal.”