The men's PGS was the final event of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games held at Cypress Mountain, and the track was showing it today. Friday's weather was tough on the women, and life got worse on Saturday for the men, who were battling similar conditions. As for the most notable moments?

1. The Local Hero: The Canadian crowd really didn't have a whole lot to cheer about early on, given that they could barely see the finish line due to the horrible conditions (even from where they were sitting). But they came out in force to give Jasey-Jay Anderson the sendoff he's worthy of. This was Anderson's fourth and final trip to the Olympics (the 34-year-old racer promised this would be his last Games even before they started). More importantly, this was his last shot at getting a medal. So for him to grind out a win and deliver a gold medal for his country under that kind of pressure speaks volumes about this guy's character. Anderson's surprise story is welcome news in Canada.

2. The American Inspiration: American Chris Klug, whose first Olympic experience came in 1998. Klug made it back to the Olympics in 2002, but only after enduring a liver transplant. According to Olympic officials, he was the first person in the history of the Games to have gone through such an ordeal and competed. He ended up bringing home a bronze medal that year ... but that was just his first comeback story. In many ways, his 2010 trip to the Olympics has been equally inspiring, especially after he failed to make the U.S. Team in 2006. As we've learned with Klug, you can never count him out. His performance today was a solid one. He finished his two qualifying runs with a time of 38.84. Klug would go on to make it all the way to the quarterfinal, where he had a bad spinout on his first run. That mistake ended up costing him. He couldn't make up the time on the next run against Zan Kosir, who, by the way, is 12 years younger than Klug. Nevertheless, Klug's 7th-place finish was a very respectable one.

3. The Breaking Point: Though officials were trying to claim the run was better on Saturday than it was on Friday, Austria's Siegfried Grabner would probably disagree. Grabner spun out and crashed into the fence during his race against Canadian Matthew Morison. He broke his board in the process. The rain was coming down a lot harder on Saturday, compounding the rest of the weather problems, like low visibility, bad light, ruts all over the course and soup for snow.

4. The Blind Spot: There's nothing worse -- or more dangerous -- in PGS than low visibility. Cypress Mountain, for whatever reason, is a magnet for fog. Midway through the competition today there was a giant blanket sitting right in the middle of the course. It made life extremely difficult for the racers. Though they instinctively know where the gates are, having a good visual of where you're headed is essential to mapping out turns properly. The guys who got the worst of those conditions absolutely suffered, since it had a pretty significant impact on the lines they were choosing.

5. The Final Stand: Jasey-Jay Anderson and Chris Klug were the lone racers from North America to finish in the top 10. Both are likely to retire as of Saturday afternoon, which will put the pressure on the 33-year-old American Tyler Jewell to carry the torch in Russia. As we mentioned with the women on Friday, the Europeans dominate the larger PGS snowboarding field, which is one more reason why Anderson's win was such a huge upset, and big surprise. It could be a very long time before we see a North American at the top of a PGS podium again.

Caption: Jasey-Jay Anderson holding the medal he's been striving for since 1998. Photo: Livesey via Getty Images.