Thursday, March 4, 2010

Apollo Anton Ohno


Apollo Anton Ohno has 8 career medals. This year in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver he won silver, and 2 bronze. He has in career so far is 4 bronze medals 2 sliver and 2 gold.He first came into the sport in 1994. He was at the age 12 first interested in speed skating. In the 2002 winter Olympics he was one of the favored that would win the Winter Olympics. So in 2006 Winter Olympics he won gold in Torino. He should have won one more medal because it was when the Canadians guy slipped and Canada guy should have got disqualified because he pushed the Korean guy and he didn’t get disqualified. Ohno said he didn’t win silver or gold is because he it was on Canada soil and it was their home country. Every year since 2002 at Salt Lake he won gold and after the Korean in front of him was disqualified for a legal block. Then Ohno received gold and many Korean sent him Death notes so he was pulled of the world champion. So April 26, 2007, he was inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame, an award which honors achievements of Asian Americans. He is one of the most successful USA individual he beat Bonnie Blair she had 6 medals and Ohno beat her by 2 medals he could win more medals at the 2014 Olympics in Russia I hope they are going to be more fair than Canada. He did not argue though he said it was a cushion and he did not push the Canadian at all but it was final. It was horrible every American was mad but Ohno was probably mad but he held it in and did not say anything bad so he congratulated he competition. It would have been cool if he had won his nine career medal but he has a nother chance to win gold in 2014 in Russia.

2 comments:

  1. I did see replays of Ohno's race; it amazes me how there's so little room for error - just one tiny little slip could make everyone crash. You're right, though, that Ohno still has more races in him and could do well in 2014 in Russia. Where did you get your information from? I would have liked to have seen a link for all of the medal counts you mentioned.

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  2. I think that would be a HARD sport to do. I think he got robbed that 2nd to last race, but he has gotten many breaks like theat before.

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