Canada Wins Gold

[bigjohn]

Well Canada's Women won the Gold Medal in Ice Hockey. Canada's men, well....ugh. Canada also won curling, which I have a connection to. All but one of the Men's curling team is from Newfoundland. One of my best friends is related to Jamie Korab (they're first cousins). So we were all watching and rooting and hoping that team Canada or Newfoundland as we liked to call it, would win Gold. Now theres a chance that I might even get to hold an Olympic Gold Medal. W00t.

Nice!

Did I hear right though, that the brake man on one of the 2 man bob teams, has only recently got citizenship, but formerly competed with the Jamaican bob team? Or what that just commentators ********?

Plus, I notice that a high proportion of the Canada team are french-Canadian (Quebecoise?). Is it just coincidental or something to do with Quebec getting more snow/ice than the rest of the country??? I can see the cultural connection, as France provides quite a number of contenders/contestants, so logic would dictate that quite a number of Canadian french speakers might also "do" winter sports, but it did just seem that there was a disproportionate number of "french" names among the Canadian atheletes.

Not that "my lot" are any real competition though. The will have returned with the expected amount of medals i.e. One. Though fair do's to the girl, she did get the silver for skeleton bob. A "sport" akin to chucking yourself down a bob run on a tea tray/sheet of corrugated steel/plastic rubbish bag (much like I did as a kid - on the very odd occassion that we had enough snow!).

Only downside, is the bloody 4 year wait till the Vancouver games! Perhaps they could change it to every 2 years!

toodle pip!

[bryansmith]

Did I hear right though, that the brake man on one of the 2 man bob teams, has only recently got citizenship, but formerly competed with the Jamaican bob team? Or what that just commentators ********?

That is 100% correct. His citizenship was fast tracked so he could compete. I'm glad he did .

Bryan

[Apollo]

As for more French names, you're probably right, but I don't notice anymore lol. Well, your theory could be correct, in some places in Quebec. The top half of Quebec, formerly known as Lower Canada has a higher latitude, reaching well over 60N so it is only reasonable that it sees more ice and snow. Quebec also throws off huge Carnivals in the winter. Theres the Quebec Carnival and Montreal also has a Carnival I believe. Quebec also has a population of ~8 Million which is about 1/4 of Canada's total population, so that helps them along.

[genesus]

The World Series one is interesting and gives me slightly different view of it. I still think it's a little conceded to have that title but at least it has a different meaning than I thought.

As for the boxing....oh man, I have to agree with bigjohn. Why must there be like 4,000 divisions (slightly exaggerated )?

Bryan

My proposal: one division, one championship, barenuckle, unlimited rounds to knockout...

Whatever happened to the Sullivan's and 99 rounds of bloodiness

[bryansmith]

My proposal: one division, one championship, barenuckle, unlimited rounds to knockout...

Whatever happened to the Sullivan's and 99 rounds of bloodiness

lol, nice suggestion. That would be a good match to watch. I somehow don't see that flying though .

Bryan

[bigjohn]

My proposal: one division, one championship, barenuckle, unlimited rounds to knockout...

Whatever happened to the Sullivan's and 99 rounds of bloodiness

lol, nice suggestion. That would be a good match to watch. I somehow don't see that flying though .

Bryan

Erm, plus you'd also probably get complaints from the various international Animal Welfare groups