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According to the commentators, this will be the day of the national tragedy, but I don't think anything is lost for Canadian team. You need a wake-up call to do well in the finals, right?

But (I saw this in the breaks) - Canadian pair is leading ice dancing at the moment! I am glad they do - I didn't like neither pseudo-Indian dance of the USA couple nor pseudo-Maori dance of the Russian couple, though the USA couple was a bit better. SURELY - a gold medal in ICE DANCING has to be worthy of losing to USA (and it is not even finals yet!)????????????????

Now it is almost 4.00 and I don't feel sleepy at all. I am so glad I watched Canada/USA. I am going to continue and watch Finland/Sweden . Wouldn't it be good if Finland won as well??? (Update : no luck, they lost 0:3. I am sad).

YAY! Russians!!!!!!!!!!!! Winning 4:2 against Czechs, hopefully Russians securing their place in the finals. And quite an awesome game too! I might stay awake tonight - there will be also USA/Canada and Sweden/Finland (this is always good to watch) tonight. So so exiting - finally my favourite parts of the Olympics started.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Edit: Ice Hockey rules: It has been a while since I watched much hockey and now I am feeling lost among IIHF (adopted at the Olympics?) hockey rules. Why aren't all wins of the same point value (some are 4, some 3 and some 2)? What is draw's point value?

What does it mean: "Upon completion of the preliminary round, teams will be ranked 1D through 12D. The top four ranked teams (1D though 4D) will receive byes to the quarter-final round. The remaining eight teams will compete for the remaining four quarter-final positions." The remaining eight teams will be in play-offs? This is not how it used to be 10 years ago!