Spence, Chromiak Picked For Gold Tonight

It is tough to write through the tears caused by the emotional NBC/Ovechkin Valentine Honeymoon Angel Sweetheart Celebration. Nonetheless here are the evening medal previews.

3 PM PST - Speed Skating
The Canadians (Dave Spence/Paragons) have the strongest skaters in tonight's Women's 1500. I'm picking Kristina Groves, the 3000 meter bronze medalist, for gold. The difference will be her Kinesiology degree from the University of Calgary. That's one of my favorite Kinesiology programs in western Canada.

Canadian skater Christine Nesbitt won gold in the 1000 and is my choice for silver. She's a great skater but loses points for being in a relationship with a Dutch speed skater, who is of course competing for Ellis Kunka's universally hated Cornballers. I'm sure if she had waited two weeks Alex Rodriguez would have been available.

Ireen Wüst of the Netherlands finished a disappointing eighth in the 1000 but is the Cornballers' best hope in this one. I'm picking her for bronze. Another skater who should be in the finals is German Anni Friesinger (John Binz/Da Nang Dynamos), the Salt Lake City gold medalist. She's also married to a Dutch skater. At least it's becoming apparent why every Dutch boy wants to grow up to be a speed skater.
5:20 PM PST - Bobsleigh
The world's #1 bobsledder Beat Hefti of Switzerland (Brian Schwartz/Nordique Combined) has withdrawn after being concussed by Canada's unsafe track. The remaining Swiss B team is in fifth, which only makes it more disappointing that we didn't get to see what their A team would do.

The beneficiaries are the two German teams (Zach Chromiak's Banker's Club) which currently rank first and second. Andre Lange/Kevin Kuske are .11 seconds ahead of Thomas Florscheutz/Richard Adjei. Those teams should take gold and silver for the resurgent Chromiak. Germany's grasp of math has really helped them in the gravity sports, as unlike most Americans they clearly understand what 9.8 meters per second squared means and may even be able to increase it to 9.9.

The Russian team of Alexsandr Zubkov/Alexey Voevoda (Dave Spence/Paragons) is in third and will try to hold off the USA's Steven Holcomb/Curtis Tomasevicz (Brittany B./Buck-Toothed Rabbit Bitches).