Fever
The Olympics always seem to go by in a hurry but this one even moreso. Maybe it's because time flies when you are having fun. Sure the hockey team stunk up the joint in monumental fashion, but besides that we really showed up. The COC set the goal at 25 going in so if the NHLers had have showed up we would have met that. And we did finish in third which was the alternate goal. We established ourselves as a major winter sport force after our finishing was in question after Salt Lake and, moreso, Nagano. This really puts us in a good spot heading into Vancouver. It's a long way away but I know I want to be there...We have put more money into amateur sports and it seems to be paying off. There has been much debate about paying our medallists performance bonuses. I think the government should pay them all equally going in and Canada's corporate sector should buck up and offer the medallists endorsements as a bonus. That or the we could have some kind of inverse pay off whereby the NHLer's donate a portion of their salaries to our medal winners if they shit the bed again.
I vividly remember the collective pride at the end of the Olympics in 2002. That year the hockey team was one of the major reasons. I think there is a similar collective pride now but this time it is despite the hockey team. Gretz is still Gold though...I think it was Quinn sandbagging for better Leafs ratings...damn Leafs...who paints a maple leaf blue?
Thank You Cindy Klassen
I would....
posted by Vitamin S @ 8:50 p.m.
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I don't know who paints a maple leaf blue but the colour does sum up my feelings about the leafs lately...maybe a late trade for some aging blue liner will do the trick this year. Still better than the Habs... no matter what their record is.
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