A viewing guide to what's on tap for Canada on Day 7 of the Games. Keep in mind, the country won four medals on the first Thursday of the 2006 Olympics.

Afternoon: Canadian men's curling skip Kevin Martin is in action vs. Sweden (noon, CTV/V/APTN, all times ET) after a 2-0 start Tuesday.

The women's super combined (12:50 and 3:50, ctvolympics.ca) will get a few look-ins during "Olympic Daytime," but probably not too long a look. The star power of Lindsey Vonn is canceled out by Canada's lack of a serious medal shot.

If none of that grabs you, the early men's hockey game pits plucky Norway against the U.S. (3, Rogers Sportsnet/RDS).

A good Canadian will turn her/his attention to women's 1,000-meter speedskating, where Christine Nesbitt goes for gold (4, CTV). Women's halfpipe qualification begins (4:30, TSN).

Evening: It would be a busy even without a Switzerland-Canada men's hockey game (7:30 CTV/RDS) as a focal point. Take the "over" on references to the 2-0 Swiss upset four years

Each night, Fourth-Place Medal will pick a gold, silver and bronze from among Canada's competitors.

Canuck gold: Marianne St-Gelais (silver, women's 500-meter short-track speedskating). The birthday girl won her first Olympic medal, and Canada's sixth overall, in a race where everyone was racing for silver because of China's wunderkind, Meng Wang.

St-Gelais, racing on her 20th b-day, ended up climbing an Olympic podium at these Games before her better-known boyfriend, Canadian men's short-track skater Charles Hamelin. That's the cute part. The serious part is that she still competed as a junior last year, so talk about tremendous upside.

Didn't know that Hamelin and St-Gelais were an item? If all of Canada followed Olympic sports like Quebec does, no one would need the reminder, just kidding but not really.

Canuck silver: Jessica Gregg (fourth in the same event). As elated as St-Gelais was, Gregg was just as heartbroken after bouncing back from a collision early in the night and

Shaun White's gold-medal coronation in the halfpipe finals at the Winter Olympics was marred Wednesday by vulgar statements made by coach Bud Keene and aired on NBC live to the East Coast before White's final run. White was the last to go, but since nobody had beat his score from the first round, he was the automatic winner. There was much joy and celebration atop the run, as there should have been. Unfortunately, a few of those words were picked up by NBC cameras.

At first there were whoops of celebration. But then things got a little R-rated.

Keene: What do you want to do?
White: I don't know, man. Ride down the middle?
(Chorus of noes.)
Keene: No, have some fun.
White: Drop a double mick?
Keene: Yeah, drop a double mick at the end. Do whatever you want and [expletive] send that thing. Make sure you stomp the [expletive] out of that thing.

It went downhill from there if you can read lips, at which point NBC announcers Pat Parnell and Todd Richards apologized for the language and

Not that there was any doubt about it, but Shaun White is the best snowboarder alive. Wednesday night he successfully defended his 2006 men's halfpipe gold medal. And yes, he did the Double McTwist 1260.

After a flawless first run, White found himself where he usually is: atop the leaderboard. Then, after every other snowboarder took a second shot at knocking him from his perch, he remained in first. Since only the best of two runs is counted in scoring, Shaun White already had his gold medal. Now he could have some fun.

With no pressure on him, White went, as he would call it, "heavy." Huge, huge, enormous air, the now-requisite double cork, and then to top things off, the trick that only he can do — the Double McTwist 1260. It's a trick so amazing it doesn't even have an official name, though White was overheard calling it the "Double Mc." Works for me.

Forty-eight point four. That was his finishing score. Unfortunate rhyme aside, that's an outstanding mark. An entire 3.4 points

To get people to take women's hockey seriously, certain countries have to start funding it seriously.

Perhaps more people will come around on this after seeing Canada run up a 41-2 goal differential in the Olympic round-robin. The IOC and International Ice Hockey Federation, along with some national federations, should be getting scrutiny for why the women's game took a step backward Wednesday night. Canada should not be beating Sweden 13-1.

Yet it's Canadian coach Melody Davidson who always has to keep her team from getting thrown under the bus. As if they're supposed to stop skating when they're trying to peak by the gold-medal game.

“I worry about [losing women’s hockey from the Olympics] it, but my job is to prepare my team to be their best," she said.

"The men’s game [Canada-Norway] was 8-0 yesterday and I didn’t see that much in the papers [about it being a blowout]. We don’t have a steroid scandal in women’s hockey. I went to the world juniors and there were only three teams

RICHMOND, British Columbia -- Katherine Reutter had tempered expectations for the 500-meter speedskating race. The Champaign, Ill., native was hoping to make the finals. Her best races are the 1,000 and 1,500.

With nothing to lose, she decided in the first round of qualifying to take a shot at immortality (sort of). She blistered through her heat at 43.834 seconds, checked the scoreboard and threw up her hands at the accomplishment. She had set the Olympic record. And then, almost as quickly, she lost it when the sport’s best 500-meter skater, Meng Wang, came in at 43.284.

“I know Meng Wang is extremely fast, I knew if I set it, it probably wouldn’t stand for long,” Reutter said, breaking into a smile and mockingly throwing her arms up in the air.

“But I am forever an Olympic record holder.”

Reutter, 21, has a big personality. She was once a figure skater only to decide speed was her calling when she found herself challenging the other skaters to races. She wound up finishing fourth in

Vancouver appears to be literally bursting with Olympic activity.

Nineteen people were hurt Tuesday night when a fan surge caused a barricade to collapse during a free concert by Canadian band Alexisonfire at a downtown park. No one is sure why the barrier failed, because it’s been used in the park for 20 years, said city manager Penny Ballem.

Not to make light of the injuries, but maybe it’s because the city itself isn’t used to this much enthusiasm. Vancouver is a city where, until recently, you couldn’t get a drink in most of the restaurants after midnight. Yes, it has a liberal approach to marijuana, clothing-optional beaches and a serious foodie scene, but public parties are few and very far between.

But on the first day of the Games, more than $5 million was spent in the city on everything from hotels to clothes. The traditional Vancouver uniform of Gore-Tex and yoga pants has been replaced by red and white everything. Line-ups have become common place as people try to take in as

With a blazing fast last lap, American Shani Davis successfully defended his 1,000-meter speedskating gold. The win makes him the first black athlete to win an individual gold in consecutive Winter Olympics. It's the skater's second career gold and third medal overall.

Though he has encountered his fair share of controversy, Davis silenced his critics with his performance Wednesday night. With the whole world watching, Davis demonstrated just how amazing he is. Thanks to his pinpoint turns and long fluid strides, Davis turned in a time of 1:08.94, edging his rival, South Korea's Mo Tae-bum, by just 18 hundredths of a second to become the first men's skater to win back-to-back titles in the 1,000 meters. Fellow American Chad Hedrick took home the bronze.

After finishing 12th and 18th in his two previous races at this Olympics, Davis emphatically asserted himself as the world's best at 1,000 meters. He'll have his next shot at a medal on Saturday, when he skates the 1,500-meter event.