If like me you've been glued to your TV over the last couple of weeks watching the Winter Olympics then it won't have passed you by that Canada have done rather well!. Being the contrarian that I am, I particularly liked the Women's ice hockey final and the way in which the stiff central European crowd at the IOC were shocked at the behaviour of the Canadian girls celebrating their win with champagne and cigars (because no one ever celebrates with champagne and cigars?) oh come on, what's the point of being young, talented, super fit and the best in the entire world at something if you can't let your hair down now and then, good on them I say. The men's final last night was thrilling too, USA vs. Canada, the game almost didn't go according to the script, a late goal (24 seconds left on the clock) by the USA forced things into extra time but fortunately for crowd control the Canadians scored a golden goal clinching their last gold medal and a record haul for any previous hosting nation.
It was the closing ceremony last night and spectacular it was too, our only Gold medallist Amy Williams carried the union jack and we saw the Olympic flag handed over to the city that's next hosting the games, which is London in 2012 gulp!, let's hope our contribution exhibits the same balance of passion, skill and good humour that theirs has, I'm sure it will (no pressure folks).
Yippee 400 posts!
2 comments:
The USA should have won that hockey match!
E, nah, the USA win far too much stuff as it is ;)
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