SAN FRANCISCO – Canada defeated Sweden, 3-0 on Sunday, to win the men’s ice hockey gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The Canadians proved to be too much for Sweden, as goals by Jonathan Toews, Sidney Crosby and Chris Kunitz gave Canada the shutout win, and second-straight Olympic men’s hockey gold medal. Sweden finished in second place for the silver medal, while Finland took home the bronze after shutting out the United States, 5-0, on Saturday.
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Snowboarder Jenny Jones won Great Britain’s first ever Olympic medal on the snow with a dramatic slopestyle bronze in Sochi.
Jones, 33, held the lead after scoring 87.25 points in her second run and had an agonising wait while 10 athletes tried to better her score.
American Jamie Anderson eventually took gold with 95.25, ahead of Finland’s Enni Rukajarvi on 92.50.
“I did the best run I could have done,” a thrilled Jones told BBC Sport.
Parents surprise bronze-winning Jones
Jones scored 73.00 to place fifth after the first round, just 4.25 points off the podium places, and after an impressive second run she secured the bronze when the final competitor, Austrian medal prospect Anna Gasser, fell.
“It feels amazing,” added Jones. “I cannot believe it, I just can’t believe it. I knew I was going to drop [from first place] but I didn’t know how far. I am just so happy.
“It was so difficult waiting. I thought I did my best run and landed it as best as I could.”
Jones, from Bristol, becomes the first Briton to win a medal at a Winter Games on snow rather than ice, where 22 medals had been won before Sochi in events such as figure skating, curling, skeleton, bobsleigh and, in the more distant past, ice hockey.
Alain Baxter thought he had become Britain’s first medal-winner on snow in the 2002 Winter Olympics when he finished third in the men’s slalom, but his bronze was taken away in controversial circumstances after he failed a drugs test.
Slopestyle was only accepted into the Sochi Olympic programme in 2012, at a time when Jones was considering her future in the sport.
There was a reminder of its dangers in the Olympic final when Czech Sarka Pancochova, who had led after the first run, fell heavily and slid down the slope before being helped to her feet and making her way to the bottom, where she showed Jones a huge crack in her helmet.
Jones had suffered a serious concussion back in December, and British freestyle snowboard coach Hamish McKnight heaped praise on her achievement.
“I’m extremely proud,” he told BBC Sport.
“It has been a long journey and she hasn’t had the easiest time of it over the last few months, so it means so much for her and the team.
Slippery slopestyle false start
“I think this could be a big deal for UK snowboarding. We’ve proved what we do works and if we can get more of it [funding] we can get more of this [medals].”
Among those watching on television was British Olympic heptathlon gold medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill, who said on Twitter: “Amazing. I was gripped!!”
And also on Twitter, Wimbledon champion Andy Murray said after Jones’s final run: “Jenny Jones! Is it wrong to hope everyone left falls?” followed soon after by “Yesssssssssssssssss!”
Great Britain team-mate Jamie Nicholls, who was sixth in Saturday’s men’s final, said: “This is amazing, I’m shaking.
“Jenny’s been though a lot, she was at the top four years ago and for her to come here and put it down and get a bronze medal is pretty crazy!
“We don’t even have mountains in our country but this shows anyone can make it happen.”
Former Army Gen. David Petraeus is once again in hot water. Reports state that Petraeus attempted to alter the war-record of Medal of Honor winner William Swenson.
A Pentagon investigation into the botched nomination of Army Capt. William Swenson revealed Petraeus surreptitiously tried to give Swenson the nation’s second-highest award, according to reports.
Swenson, 34, ultimately was awarded the Medal of Honor by President Obama last month for nearly singlehandedly fighting off 60 Taliban insurgents in 2009. He heroically assisted injured U.S. and Afghan troops following an assault in the Ganjgal Valley, and further proved his mettle by returning to the dangerous scene multiple times to recover his fallen brothers and sisters.
But his nomination process became mired in tricky bureaucracy — and somehow his original file sent to Obama as part of the award confirmation process was purged. The file Obama reviewed when making his decision was a duplicate.
A New Hampshire police officer is complaining that a McDonald’s employee deliberately served him a raw burger causing him to get sick. This McDonald’s employee not only deserves a promotion but should also be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It actually isn’t very difficult to make this case. There is little question that this person is much more deserving of receiving this award than a war criminal like Tony Blair who received the award several years ago. At least this McDonald’s worker is protesting against a criminal entity that has been destroying freedom in America. There will probably be a bunch of zombies reading this that will be outraged at even the thought of this but it is actually a serious suggestion. Police officers are widely hated by a large number of people in America and they only have themselves to blame. Police departments have morphed into uniformed criminal gangs that no longer protect and serve their communities but instead bully people around with their gun and badge.
Let’s look at some of the facts that prove this to be the case. There are now countless documented cases of police officers unjustly beating and even killing people. Many of these cops have actually gotten away with these crimes due to their privileged position as a police officer. Sometimes police departments have the nerve to charge the person they beat up with crimes like assault and battery. Combine this with the continued militarization of police departments and this type of thing is only going to get progressively worse.
When cops aren’t running around beating and killing people they are handing out record numbers of traffic tickets to people. Many police departments have setup quota systems which require their cops to hand out a certain number of tickets within an allotted time frame. These jackasses don’t even consider the fact that we are in the midst of an economic depression. Instead, they continue to hand out ticket after ticket even though we are at a point where a lot of people can barely afford to buy basic necessities. Make no mistake about it, speed limit laws and many of these other ridiculous traffic regulations are not meant to keep people safe but are instead used as another revenue source for government. Anyone who willfully participates in enforcing such a system has less value as a human being than the feces that comes out of a pig’s ass.
On top of this, many cops act in a completely disrespectful manner towards other people. It is almost as if they have some sort of inferiority complex so they have to make up for it by taking a job that allows them to bully people around. It would be interesting to see how many of these so-called heroes have thwarted or solved real legitimate crimes. That number on a percentage basis is probably extremely low because these tough guys view writing tickets as a more important task than paying attention to crimes that have real victims.
With all this said should it really be a mystery as to why people hate the police? They enforce all sorts of ridiculous rules, regulations and laws most of which are totally victimless in nature. Take for example all of the insanity surrounding the enforcement of drug laws in America. Do we really need an army of these uniformed idiots running around looking for marijuana, cocaine and other substances? It should be obvious that we do not.
Businesses around the country should begin refusing to provide service to any and all uniformed police officers until major attitude and policy adjustments occur. Either that or do what the guy at McDonald’s did and serve them with an inferior product. This will send a clear message to these criminals that people hate them. The New Hampshire cop should actually be thankful the McDonald’s employee didn’t do worse to his cheeseburger. The employee could have dropped a deuce on the hamburger patties if they were truly vindictive.
Make no mistake about it, police officers are not heroes and it is absolutely ridiculous that they are portrayed with such reverence by the corporate media. Look at how they present stories in which a cop gets killed in the line of duty. It is as if they want us to believe that their lives are more valuable than someone who isn’t a cop when in reality the opposite is true. Anyone who decides to make a living as a police officer is less valuable than someone who earns a living by providing a legitimate service that people want.
Some say that not all cops are bad, but this is a misinformed view. Anybody that willingly becomes a cop to help enforce a never ending list of unjust rules, regulations and laws is mostly as bad as anybody else on these forces. Some might be worse than others, but that’s about all that can be argued. The system is so far gone that cops who have any sort of conscience left should quit in protest and find real honest work. Working as a police officer is dishonest because the profession has devolved into government sanctioned criminality.
From Bill Clinton to Ernie Banks to Loretta Lynn, some of the most famous figures in American sports, politics and music were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday by President Barack Obama.
The award is the highest U.S. civilian honor and to mark the 50th anniversary of the medal, Obama chose to honor a group of people who are household names to Americans.
These are among the notable names on the president’s Medal of Freedom list:
Clinton, president from 1993-2001, was cited for his work at the Clinton Foundation and its global effort to promote health and strengthen economies.
Banks, famously dubbed “Mr. Cub” for his 19 years on the Chicago Cubs, played in 11 All-Star games, hit more than 500 home runs and has been in the Baseball Hall of Fame since 1977.
Lynn, a country music singer who was raised in the coalfields of Kentucky, was the subject of the movie “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and was one of the genre’s first major female stars in the early 1960s.
Ben Bradlee was editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon in the 1970s. The Post was in the news this week when Amazon’s Jeff Bezos purchased the struggling newspaper.
Oprah Winfrey, best known for creating the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” the highly rated talk show, is also an actress who starred in the “Color Purple.”
Others on the list included former Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar, the late Hawaii Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith, feminist Glorida Steinem, civil rights leader Cordy Tindell “C.T.” Vivian, jazz artist Arturo Sandoval, chemist Mario Molina and the late astronaut Sally K. Ride.
From Bill Clinton to Ernie Banks to Loretta Lynn, some of the most famous figures in American sports, politics and music were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Thursday by President Barack Obama.
The award is the highest U.S. civilian honor and to mark the 50th anniversary of the medal, Obama chose to honor a group of people who are household names to Americans.
These are among the notable names on the president’s Medal of Freedom list:
Clinton, president from 1993-2001, was cited for his work at the Clinton Foundation and its global effort to promote health and strengthen economies.
Banks, famously dubbed “Mr. Cub” for his 19 years on the Chicago Cubs, played in 11 All-Star games, hit more than 500 home runs and has been in the Baseball Hall of Fame since 1977.
Lynn, a country music singer who was raised in the coalfields of Kentucky, was the subject of the movie “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and was one of the genre’s first major female stars in the early 1960s.
Ben Bradlee was editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon in the 1970s. The Post was in the news this week when Amazon’s Jeff Bezos purchased the struggling newspaper.
Oprah Winfrey, best known for creating the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” the highly rated talk show, is also an actress who starred in the “Color Purple.”
Others on the list included former Indiana Republican Senator Richard Lugar, the late Hawaii Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye, former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith, feminist Glorida Steinem, civil rights leader Cordy Tindell “C.T.” Vivian, jazz artist Arturo Sandoval, chemist Mario Molina and the late astronaut Sally K. Ride.
President Barack Obama will present his pal Oprah Winfrey with the Presidential Medal of Freedom later this year, POLITICO 44 reports:
Barack Obama will award 16 Presidential Medals of Freedom this year to a mix of athletes, politicians, pioneers, artists and Oprah Winfrey, the White House said Thursday.
Obama’s list includes President Bill Clinton, who will be the second president Obama has awarded the medal, following George H.W. Bush in 2011. Also to be awarded the medal is Ben Bradlee, the Washington Post editor who led the paper’s Watergate coverage.
“The Presidential Medal of Freedom goes to men and women who have dedicated their own lives to enriching ours,” Obama said in a statement released by the White House. “This year’s honorees have been blessed with extraordinary talent, but what sets them apart is their gift for sharing that talent with the world. It will be my honor to present them with a token of our nation’s gratitude.”
