It Has Been Decades Since The Olympics Was About Sports...

• Language commissioner probes the Games
  Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser will launch an investigation into complaints about the lack of French in Friday's Olympic Opening Ceremonies in Vancouver.

• More French in closing ceremonies, executive producer says

You know Sour Grapes when you hear it

Why are members of the foreign media wondering why a host country would like to dominate their games?  Did China not want to dominate theirs and was anyone surprised. Was the USA afraid to dominate in Salt Lake? Own the Podium- are those words too tough to digest?  Let me as a Canadian say them one more time. Own the podium.  A writer at the Times of London writes, “their highly unpleasant Own the Podium program...has alienated the world they are supposed to play host to. Getting ugly about it is neither necessary nor appropriate.” Own the podium…Ugly?

The Chinese owned the Figure Skating pairs competition last night. Taking Gold and Bronze and it was a beautiful thing - Not because I have a thing for China. They owned the competition not because they marched into Vancouver and Shot Canada full of holes. They didn't fire rocket launchers. They didn't rape the women. Some people are upset that our Canadian women beat Slovakia 18 - 0...running up the score they say? Arrogant they say…Ugly some say. Does anyone with rudimentary understanding of hockey think 18 - 0 was really running up the score based on what went down in the first twenty minutes of play. Canada could have won that game 30 - 0...And Bilodeau's performance...Our first Gold medal as a host country Sunday night when Canada's heart skipped a mogul. The Aussies say that their duded was ripped off by the Judges who were swayed by the crowd. The judges weren't swayed by a crowd. The judges saw what they saw and judged it. The country was seduced by excellence, the only kind of athletic seduction that is worth experiencing. You know it when you feel it. And you know Sour grapes when you hear it.

Charles Adler

Cringe with Embarrassment

Let throw the book at the Vancouver Olympic protesters!

I cringed with embarrassment as I watched the TV coverage of punks smashing store windows and then, incredibly, accusing police of harassing them.

We have the right to protest. I might disagree with these people. But I defend their right to take a position. But they show no such objectivity. Their hooliganism has detracted from the dedicated work of the majority of Canadians who want the Vancouver Olympics to be a success.

Unfortunately events such as the Olympics, with their immense world wide television audience, attract people with causes. And that’s fine.  So long as they obey the laws that give them that right!

Show your picket signs. Sound off for the TV cameras. But also cherish the fact you have the right to protest.

You do not have the right to destroy property or ...

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