Showing posts with category "2010 winter olympics"

That Giant Sucking Sound from Edmonton

That sound you heard at the end of each period in the US-Canada gold medal game was the giant sucking sound of a multitude of potties being flushed at the

Canadian Hockey, Sex, and My Golf Game

Related to Skip's post, how much happiness was generated in Canada by Sunday's hockey victory?

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

The Room for Debate blog at the New York Times runs a series of short opinion pieces today about the lack of snow in Vancouver at the opening of the Winter

Olympic post-mortem

Personally, less viewing was more fun. It was a shame though, to see "home-cooking" in the Men's 500m short-track race, where a Canadian judge made a marginal

Support for Olympic Curlers (and other athletes?)

As I have watched the curling from the 2010 Olympics, I have heard several of the commentators tell us that so-and-so from such-and-such country is a

"Own the Podium"? Why bother?

The 2010Winter Olympics will soon begin in Vancouvre, BC, and environs. In the media build-up that is taking place in Canada, we are beginning to hear more