The Olympics

As you know the Olympics are on right now where I live and although I was a bit of a skeptic beforehand it has turned out to be tremendously successful with a few hiccupps.

The bad

1. The death of the Georgian bobsledder. It was terrible and I feel for his family but it was a tragic accident.

2. Lack of snow at one of the venues. It was a real concern but they managed to work around it. The funny thing was at Whistler where most of the snow events took place there was tons of snow.

The good

1.Lindsey Vonn winning the downhill. Boy can she ski and she sure looks great doing it.

2. Clara Hughes winning another medal for Canada in speed skating. She is the only athlete from any country to ever win More than one medal in both summer and winter Olympics. Her summer medals were in cycling. There have been a couple others win one medal in both but never multiple. On top of it what a great lady.

3. The skeleton win by Jon Montgomery (he is on Oprah today) and then walking through the Whistler Village drinking a jug of beer that was passed to him. That was a Canadian moment.

4. The cross country skiing. If you have never done it you might not realize how hard it is to go that fast. They are incredible athletes and deserve more funding.

5. Canada and US womens final. The two best women's teams meet again. Canada won but these teams are so even.

More to come this weekend