Sigh, I kinda miss the Olympics. For all that I was getting overly saturated with sports now that the Olympics are over I’m a little sad. *pout*
Sunday after work, I got home and automatically turned the tv on, it was set to the channel I had been using for the Olympics coverage but…there was no Olympics…it was the news. The news?! WTF? Not gonna lie, I was a little confused until I remembered that it was all over. Back to the real world.
I had gotten used to exercising in my living room while watching the Olympics, I had gotten used to checking my Sochi App done by CBC to keep up to date on everything, I had gotten used to caring about sports I normally never care about lol. 😛
I’ll let you in on a little secret about me, I am very un-Canadian because…brace for it…I don’t care about hockey! *ducks down* Don’t throw stuff at me, k? But for the Olympics? All over the hockey! The women’s Canadian team dominated, then the men followed suit! They made us so proud. 😀
I had to be up freakishly early for work Sunday anyways so I saw the men’s final hockey game. Sweden may not have scored but they sure as heck made the Canadian team fight for their win. I felt so bad for Sweden when Canada got that third goal, you could see their shoulders slump down as if they realized their chance at getting gold was almost nil, it was sad, shrug. Not that I believe in letting another team score a point so they feel better, but we could have gone without scoring that third to make the win less crushing…but I s’pose in the midst of a game you aren’t thinking like that. Actually, I know in the midst of a competition you don’t think like that lol my dragon boat team doesn’t care about the feelings of the people we are racing against during a race, it’s only after that we think about how the other teams might feel and are friendly to them again. This isn’t just our team though, all the teams are friendly on land, dragon boaters are a friendly bunch, even if we do yell a lot during a race! lol
There were so many high points to the Olympics but already they all seem like old news. I won’t remember the athletes names by the next Olympics, I’ll spend the first part of the next Winter Olympics trying to remember if I was cheering for this person or that person in 2014. For all that these athletes become so important to their countries during the Olympics, they quickly slip back in to daily life once it’s all over and I never hear a thing about them again…except for that Crosby guy cause he was the face of Dempster’s Bread for a while. I guess in a way it is proof of how they are just like everybody else. They have to work, they have to train, they have to go through their daily routine and how could they do that if they were constantly being in the media?
Regardless of it all being over I will hold on to the happy moments for a while yet, they still make me smile and why stop thinking about things that make you smile? Do you not want to smile? *raised eyebrow*
In case the words are too small on the image here is what it says:
Lovely people those Canadians. Gentle, civilized, beautiful people.
Until you give them hockey sticks.
Why does the Canadian army even bother with guns, and tanks, and bombs and shit?
They should just give them all hockey sticks
And then say, “There you are boys, the Taliban have the puck.”
teehee, it started floating around the internet the other day and it makes me laugh, even if it does exclude the womens hockey teams.
Oh, and as a side note, the happy moments from the Olympics that I am remembering are not the medals won, though those are awesome, it’s the other stories.
– Patrick Chan apologizing for getting silver not gold. He did us proud, and yet he apologizes, not once but twice! Made me wanna give him a hug and a cookie lol
– The emotional connection I felt to Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir while they performed, it was achingly beautiful.
– Pictures of all three Dufour-Lapointe sisters. Two of the three got medals but they all celebrated together.
– Charles Hamelin laying on top of a side board to reach his girlfriend to give her a kiss after his 1500m speed skate race. He did that at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics too and it’s adorable.
– The goofy pictures the figure skating team took together.
– Cross-country coach Justin Wadsworth running out to the race course and giving the Russian skier a new ski (his was broken) so he could cross the finish line with dignity.
– Gilmore Junio giving up his spot in his race so his teammate could race.
– The Jamaican bobsled team. I’m sorry but I love them no matter where they place! The level of dedication they have, mind blowing.
There are so many other moments, too many to write about here, especially considering they are floating all over the internet and have been plastered all over tvs for the past couple weeks, you probably know all the stories I know and more lol But it’s those moments, the human moments, that I will remember. Except for hockey and curling I won’t remember who won what medals, I won’t remember scores, or race times, what I will remember is seeing people represent their countries, do their best, push themselves beyond physical limits that most of us will never even get close too.
All the athletes are inspiring, and that is what I will remember most. 🙂
The Amazing Shrinking Woman 
The Olympics are over, but the Para-lympics start soon, and their competitors are just as keen to win as the ordinary Olympians. But I bet the Paralympics don’t get as much TV coverage as the Olympics did – it’s a shame, because those competitors have probably gone through way more difficulties to qualify.
That’s true. I am guilty of not giving as much of my attention to the para-olympics as I do the olympics, which now that I am thinking about it makes me feel ashamed. I don’t know what the tv coverage will be like for the para-olympics but I know my Sochi 2014 app from CBC will cover them so I will keep up to date using that. I can also watch video of the events using the app so I’ll be able to see how well the athletes do (in replay of course cause of the time difference) instead of just reading about it. Thanks for reminding me! 🙂