Team Canada's Loss, Puts National Psyche in the Tank!
By Ben Meisner
Wednesday, February 22, 2006 03:15 PM
-by Ben Meisner
That clicking sound you heard around the country shortly before 2.00 p.m. pacific time today, was not the cricket population waking up for another year. It was the millions of TV set remotes quietly hitting the off button as Canada dropped out of medal contention in Men’s Olympic hockey.
The post mortem will not doubt begin within the next few hours and carry on for the next year.
So confident were we that even our own Mayor, Colin Kinsley was saying before he left town to attend the Olympics (and of course make people more aware of Prince George) that he hoped to be sitting in the stands waving the Canadian flag and cheering on Canada at the gold medal game.
As one person sitting there watching the game with me exclaimed, "There are a lot of tears falling into the beers in Italy tonight, most of them from Canadian fans “.
Did we send a team that lacked the fast skating ability? Did we send players that were too old or who lacked the desire? I leave that for the experts.
It is interesting that the two sports we were supposed to kill all our competitors, (Women’s curling and Men’s Hockey) are the two sports that had us hitting the showers early.
Oh to be sure Canada will finish high in the medal standings, but to the average Canadian winning two medals in Skelton, is like winning the other guys marble with a chip in it .
I’m Meisner and that is one man's opinion.
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Posted by: acrider54 on February 27 2006 6:24 AM
Canada, at least this year, is no longer a one show or two show production. We are developing strengths in other sports which were traditionally sports in which other countries excelled.
What we are doing with respect to some of the other sports, primarily as a result of the Calgary Olympics, which provided us with some of the facilties we did not have, other countries are doing with respect to hockey, primarily as a result of foreign players joining the NHL.
Actually, I am wondering how much effect the NHL shut down had when some of the players went to play in Europe and may have provided additional "epxertise" to our international oponents.