Canada’s national hockey team (special PeekYou profile here) has beaten Sweden in the Olympic finals, 3-0; winning their ninth gold medal in the event.
John Tavares (PeekYou profile here), of the NHL‘s New York Islanders, suffered a knee injury while playing for Canada in the Olympics, on Wednesday, and will miss the remainder of the NHL season as a result.
Kate Hansen (PeekYou profile here), the American Olympic luger who recently gained attention for the video of her joyously preparing for a run by dancing to Beyoncé, is trending today for a considerably more nerve-wracking video, shot in her Sochi hotel.
Coming from the popular YouTube channel, AsapSCIENCE — co-created by Canadians Mitchell Moffit (PeekYou profile here), and Gregory Brown — the above video is the first of their series of Winter Olympics inspired clips “about the psychology, physiology, biology, chemistry and physics of the games!”
The XXII Olympic Winter Games, or as they will more often be called, The 2014 Winter Olympics, are now upon us, and — while some competition is already underway as of this writing — the opening ceremony will take place (or has taken place, depending on when you’re reading this) on Friday in Sochi, Russia.