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Karen Percy cemented herself in Calgary Olympic historical past on Day 10 of the Video games, successful her second bronze medal in 4 days in alpine snowboarding. Percy was ready for an amazing run. She had the boldness to win a medal a number of days earlier and she or he knew the Nakiska course. She spent the summer season strolling up and down the mountain, memorizing its form, bumps and curves.
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Canadians have not had as a lot to cheer about at hockey, although. Crew Canada may solely handle a 2-2 draw in opposition to Sweden.
In the meantime, a feminine Olympic powerhouse stormed the ice. Bonnie Blair of the US broke a world file within the 500-meter velocity skating occasion and received gold on the Olympic Oval – the primary of six Olympic medals she received over time. “Once I noticed the time, it introduced tears to my eyes,” Blair stated after the race.
Additionally on Day 10 of the Calgary Olympics:
- The wind blew sand onto the bobsleigh observe, delaying a number of the remaining heats of the two-man bobsleigh occasion. When the observe reopened, it was sooner than it had been earlier within the day, resulting in complaints from earlier rivals.
- Canadian ice dancers Tracy Wilson and Rob McCall remained in third place after one other portion of their occasion – the tango – befell.
- Sweden received the lads’s 4×10 cross-country relay. Sweden additionally received the lads’s moguls within the demonstration sport of freestyle snowboarding, whereas the Federal Republic of Germany received the ladies’s occasion.
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- One other demonstration sport, brief observe velocity skating, created buzz. A Korean received the lads’s 1500m occasion, however simply behind him in silver was Louis Grenier of Canada. The game, which grew to become an official Olympic sport in 1992, has grow to be one during which Canada has received greater than three dozen medals over time.
- On the athlete city on the College of Calgary, dozens of cooks and kitchen employees have been busy preserving almost 2,000 athletes and officers fed. Employees there stated they undergo 700 to 800 steaks, 2,500 eggs and 1,400 kilograms of contemporary fruit every single day.
- As of Day 10, the organizers have been joyful to report that their 9,400-strong military of volunteers acquired the job carried out. And nobody had been fired or stop but! Many volunteers informed the Herald they have been so enthusiastic about their duties that they may hardly sleep or take into consideration anything. “Our troops do not falter,” stated volunteer supervisor Paul Taylor.
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To learn extra in regards to the 1988 Winter Olympics, take a look at:
35 unforgettable images from 35 years in the past: Calgary welcomed the world to the 1988 Winter Olympics
35 years later, Calgary’s Olympic Winter Video games legacy lives on, however is beginning to present its age
Olympic Rewind Day One: successes and secrets and techniques of Calgary’s 1988 Winter Olympics
Olympic Rewind Day Two: A fin flies, Jansen falls and Eddie soars — ‘Now I am an Olympian’
Olympic Rewind Day Three: Let the pin buying and selling start
Olympic Rewind Day 4: Scalpers say enterprise is up whereas intercourse employees see a slowdown
Olympic Rewind Day 5: Video games grow to be the most important bash within the metropolis’s historical past
Olympic Rewind Day Six: Loud Crowds Develop; Orser sparkles; males’s hockey disappoints
Olympic Rewind Day Seven: Canada will get its first medal
Olympic Rewind Day Eight: Battle of the Brians
Olympic Rewind Day 9: Golf Course Opens Throughout Calgary’s ‘Winter’ Olympics
Olympic Rewind Day Ten: One other treasured medal for Percy
Examine for extra Olympic Rewind reminiscences all through the month.
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