For Finland these games have been a tragedy. Just look at it, we went in setting ourselves a par of 11 medals and what do we have? 1 silver from snowboarding. Especially the gigantic amount of fail in ski jumping has been a bit disheartening. Currently we're tied at 24. place.
However, we still have a very realistic chance at another medal from ice hockey, and personally that's the only event that really matters. If we get that gold, imo it'll make these games Finland's greatest success ever
It would also place us 16th on top of Britain.
By the way, some people (the Swedish press) have suspected that Finland lost to Sweden on purpose. The reason for this being that by losing, Finland went up against the Czech Republic (which we beat this morning 2-0 during the last five minutes of the game) and will next be going at the USA, which I honestly believe we have a solid chance of winning. However, Sweden would have been pitted against Canada/Russia in the semifinals (or as of now, Canada [good job you did there, being a Canadian citizen myself I can't help but feel proud]). Would have, if they hadn't already lost in their quarterfinal match against this year's surpriser Slovakia. I don't know how true this is, and it is quite true that it's "just our thing to lose to the swedes", but it really did seem to me watching the Sweden - Finland game that our boys weren't really that intent on winning. Still, I am quite glad that Sweden got dropped out of the finals, I think that just boosted our chances of winning quite considerably
