Occasionally Wright

Thank Goodness For the Ladies

The Olympic ladies that is. Canada now has a record 18 Winter Games medals, which is one more than they got in Salt Lake City. The official goal of 25 is all but impossible (maybe it is impossible, but I'm too lazy to check for sure) but with another medal guaranteed in men's curling and a couple more possible in various events (men's aerials?) the Canadian Olympic Committee should be pretty pleased.

The only question is what's up with the men and their under performing? Usually when it's all said and done someone points out that most of our medals come from French-Canadian athletes, then we fell all awkward about how we treat Quebec, then we keep ignoring the big ol' elephant.

This year 13 of the 18 medals won by Canada have been won by female athletes. Seriously boys, what's with the choking? I expect this from Sandhu, but Wotherspoon? The hockey players? Come on guys! The ladies are making you look bad... really bad. I don't want to hear any excuses. I just want a more even split of the medals in 2010. Let's say 15 for the men and 15 for the women. That ought to win it for us, right? Now get cracking, and don't let Pat Quinn near the hockey team.

CBC Dropping the Ball

Yesterday CBC opted not to cover the American/Peurto Rican basketball game and missed out on the historic loss. NBC carried it live. This afternoon CBC decided that rather than cover the men's sychro springboard diving finals they'd show highlights of the Canada/US men's beach volleyball game that was played hours before and had already been replayed and discussed ad nauseum all morning. Again they missed out as all the favourites badly botched their final dives and Greece came out of nowhere to beat the US, Australia, Russia, China and everyone else to win diving gold. Way to go CBC.

In a little while they're going to go to live coverage of women's beach volleyball but they're not going to be staying with it to the end. "Don't worry,' says Ron MacLean "you'll get the end of the story eventually."

Right... because who wants live coverage?

A Giant Doobie for All to Share

Is it just me or did the Olympic torch/cauldron that was lowered to be lit by the torch bearer look exactly like a giant joint being lit?

I'm going to be posting the vast majority of my thoughts about the Olympics over at my other site, The Net Files. The address is even longer than this one so you might want to bookmark it.