That can’t be a real gold medal - snowboard cross is clearly a made up sport.
Us poor folks don’t – yesterday I used a riding mower with a blower blade attachment to clear the rink in my yard. Watering is done by my neighbour by holding a hose.
I guess I should apply to the Feds for a Zamboni grant.
Yeah, made up FOR PURE FUN! Seriously, how much fun does that look like? Yet another YAY CANADA! 
And, when I was a kid, all we had was a garden hose and a snow shovel for OUR backyard rink. 
Blame it on the Crow Rate.
(Actually, when I was a kid, we used a neighbour’s garden hose and snow shovels on the local park’s tennis court rink, and we used watering cans and snow shovels at my school’s indoor rink – the school didn’t get a Zamboni until after I was gone.)
I saw most of Maelle’s interviews, she is SO bubbly and giggly it’s cute. How can anyone be a curmudgeon when hearing her speak with a giggle at the end of everything she says. I’m glad she won the gold, and I’m hoping for more. Canada’s men’s Ice Hockey team just thumped Norway 8-0 too, Team Canada is out to prove Valteron wrong.
The announcers’ reactions in that case might have had a little something to do with the way the race ended, moreso than the medals for americans. Your use of this as an example is a little disingenuous.
As whether or not you’re correct about the issue, I have no idea. I tend to watch the olympics with the sound turned off.
I see you have met Saskatchewanians.
Richy.
Did anyone mention men’s and women’s curling both winning their first games today? It looks like the men won their second game, too. Go curlers! There’s something I love about watching Olympic curlers - people who look like they are on hiatus from their jobs as accountants and bar managers (or your dad) curling for Olympic medals.
You realize that proves nothing, right? The Norwegian men’s ice hockey team was invited to the Olympics to be everyone’s punching bag. Don’t think of that as a match; think of it as target practice.
Meanwhile, the Norwegian men’s curling team’s decision to distract everyone with the, um, most colorful uniform on ice? That seems to be kicking in, slowly but steadily.
Oughta win a medal just for putting those pants on, I say.
Do you perchance have a link to a photo? I tried to search for one, but with no success.
I would give my left arm for a pair of those pants. They are FAN-FRIKIN-TASTIC.
I love them quite deeply.
Thanks, they are, well … different.
I saw part of Sweden’s match (beating a Scottish team, yeah!) on the adjacent sheet, but unfortunately I didn’t get a glimpse of the Norwegians.
The pants are off-the-rack golf slacks from LoudMouth Golf. Who is now getting so much publicity that they should start sponsoring curling teams 
Have you ever bothered to learn what this phrase actually means? It does not mean ‘pointing to one exception validates the truth of my assertion’. Look it up.
I wholeheartedly agree. I always thought that a bronze medal means that, of all the thousands or tens of thousands of people who play your sport, there are only two that are better at it than you.
Personally, my Olympic hero is Lolo Jones, who fell in her race at Beijing, was completely devastated, yet had the guts to face an NBC interview and then the amazing grace to stop to congratulate the woman who had beaten her. That’s an Olympian. I’ve never been so proud of an American athlete.
In a related story, John Daly reports the theft of six pairs of pants from his closet.
From the above-linked story on those pants:
The reaction back home in Norway?
“The tendency is, the chicks dig them and the guys … they’re not too sure about it,” he said.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and predict that once the guys twig to the fact that “the chicks dig them,” they’ll have a change of heart. 
More bad news for friend Valteron!
Someone wake him up from his nap. Valteron! VALTERON!
It seems that Canada is in the medals yet again
GOLD for Christine Nesbitt in the Women’s 1000 m long track speed skating.
Not bad for a “loser” country.