Katie and Nana holding the Olympic Torch was one of many fun activities that we were able to take part in.
Well the first part of the Vancouver-hosted Olympics is over! Before the gear-up for the Paralympics begins it is probably a good time to reflect on our favourite moments from the Olympic games. was yours the first Canadian gold medal on home soil? Joannie Rochette's courageous skates after the passing of her mother? The Women's hockey gold medal win over the USA? Or perhaps the huge collective sigh of relief heard around Canada when Sid the Kid from Cole Harbour lifted his team to the gold medal against the American side?
I'll write briefly about the gold medal hockey game. I think it was great that the Canadian team won the game and that it was Sidney Crosby that scored the winning goal! The media were saying how this was "Crosby's team" although he was not the captain...certainly he is a franchise player when you examine his track record...2005 World Junior gold medal, youngest ever to captain a team to a Stanley Cup championship and now an Olympic gold medal to add to it! It is the gold medal that I want to write about because my feeling is that although there was incredible tension and the final game was thrilling I believe that CANADA actually felt relief before joy as we as a nation of hockey-crazed people truly believed that the gold medal always belonged with our hockey players and were in disbelief when the Americans were just a goal away from being the gold medalists. Let's face it it was a 50/50 proposition at best when the game went to overtime! Watching the celebrations from various venues across our great land was a very inspirational piece of television coverage as hands and bodies shot up into the air as Crosby's goal flashed across the screens all across the nation.
Yes I'm a Canadian...yes I am a hockey fan...yes there were other great moments from these Olympics...Please add yours!
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