Is it 2010 yet?
Well the winter Olympics are over for another four years. Aside from the time difference between here and Italy I don't have any complaints about the last 17 days. Canada had its highest ever medal count bringing in 24 medals from 10 of the 14 events (more than any other country!). Lets take a moment to congratulate all of the Canadians bringing home more jewlery then they left with:

Jeffrey Buttle: Men's Figure Skating
Chandra Crawford: Women's Sprint Cross-Country
Duff Gibson: Men's Skeleton
Kristina Groves: Women's 1500m Speed Skating
Jennifer Heil: Women's Moguls
Mellisa Hillingsworth: Women's Skeleton
Clara Hughes: Women's 5000m Speed Skating
Cindy Klassen: Women's 1500m Speed Skating
Cindy Klassen: Women's 1000m Speed Skating
Cindy Klassen: Women's 5000m Speed Skating
Cindy Klassen: Women's 3000m Speed Skating
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher: Women's 500m Short Track
Dominique Maltais: Women's Snowboard Cross
Jeff Pain: Men's Skeleton
Francois-Louis Tremblay: Men's 500m Short Track
Women's Ice Hockey
Men's Curling
Men's Team Pursuit: Speed Skating
Women's Team Pursuit: Cross-County
Women's Team Pursuit: Speed Skating
Men's 5000m Relay: Short Track Speed Skating
Women's 3000m Relay: Short Track Speed Skating
Men's Two-man Bobsleigh
Women's Curling

On top of those 24 medals Canada also had 14 fourth place finishes, so the bar is being set even higher for the Vancouver Olympics. The closing ceremonies were solid, not quite as impressive as the opening ones but thats usually the case. The Canadian portion of the ceremony was pretty cool, passing the torch and such. We had Avril Levine representing us singing a song and looking HOT. I always thought she was good looking, but it must have been something about the olympic spirit or the Italian pasta because she looked really really rediculously good looking. Now that the Olympics are over all I have to look forward to are the World Baseball Classic, the run to the NHL playoffs and March Maddness. I think I'll make it.
- posted by Mike @ 9:20 PM