tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241760411819100530.post7269875638039812351..comments2010-05-15T17:36:40.386-07:00Comments on ACME's Wonderful World of Reality: Icy relationsThumperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09563000281898436377noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241760411819100530.post-24466371955364303472010-03-04T08:28:04.112-08:002010-03-04T08:28:04.112-08:00Well, we should all say
Thank You, Canada!
That ...Well, we should all say<br /><br />Thank You, Canada!<br /><br />That was one of the best Winter games ever held, a few sad stories but relatively controversy-free. They certainly raised the bar.<br /><br />That was a great hockey game. Very evenly matched, either team could have won, it was Canada's day.<br /><br />One of the things that was brought home for me this games was just how pointless medal counts are becoming. Congrats to all the athletes for whatever color medals they took away with them, of course.<br /><br />But how many of them train and live outside their home countries? Or compete on teams from other than their home countries? And so on? Announcers or color commentators, at least here in the US, needed scorecards sometimes just to explain:<br /><br />he's Swiss but skiing for Norway; he was born in Canada but competed for the US four years ago but is competing for Australia this year; when he's not competing for Team America he's right here playing for the Vancouver Canucks: on and on!<br /><br />Go World!dabohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08458251818182046012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7241760411819100530.post-67402623974536177512010-03-01T14:09:25.357-08:002010-03-01T14:09:25.357-08:00That was a great game... with the US falling behin...That was a great game... with the US falling behind 2-0 early, it looked like "game over", but they fought back to tie it with only seconds left to go in regulation, sending it to OT. <br /><br />Ultimately, though, the Canadian onslaught won out. After all's said and done, one of the great games in Olympic hockey history.Thumperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09563000281898436377noreply@blogger.com