Be Proud Canada! We Believed!

What a joy it has been to watch our athletes! I have been on the edge of my seat many times cheering for our athletes. My favorites are Virtue and Moir, they are so young and full of life they are a joy to watch. Here is their gala performance, it's an updated version of the one I posted earlier.

Virtue and Moir Gala Performance

We have all noticed that PM Harper has been taking in a variety of sports at the games. Finally CTV actually interviewed him.

Excellent interview by CTV with PM Harper

PM Harper is so good at interviews, and this time CTV kept it non-partisan, and I appreciate that, the question about the pants was too funny. I suspect if the athletes don't get political about the funding, that they might get rewarded for all their hard work. Personally I am in favour of continuing to support the "Own the Podium" effort. At least my tax dollars are being put to better use than pandering to some socialist program that does not produce any results except more dependency on our government and ultimately us taxpayers.

These games have been a huge success. The patriotism Canadians have shown has brought our country closer together. A tie for most gold medals by any country in the winter Olympics is truly awesome, and we have one more chance to win gold!

Be proud Canada, we did it! We Believed!

It's Called Ice DANCE!

Congratulations to our gold medal winners in ice dance, Virtue and Moir! They showed everyone what dance was all about. They floated over the ice, and made it look effortless.

Watch the performance here!

Outstanding! What I liked about their performance was the understated outfits, the lack of tricks and the solid dance moves. Too many pairs let the costumes overwhelm their performances.

Never heard of them? Here is another dance they did, the chemistry is electric.



I don't know if they know it yet, but watching the medal ceremony, they were holding hands (the other pairs showed no closeness), and the way they look at each other is not just brother and sister, it is something more, but they are young and don't quite know what they are feeling yet. We will see what happens. Maybe that is what makes them so electric, the closeness, the innocence, the eye contact, the looking away, and then looking back, you can feel the attraction.

How young they are in this one:



Love it! She's a ballerina and he's a hockey player. Too funny!

Thank goodness they cleaned up the judging process, it was a disgrace before. Case in point, this should have been a gold medal performance, but won bronze instead.



The judges used to pick their favorites and the fix was in. It's nice to see the judges rewarding not on the basis of who they like, but who did the best job. That is why North America finally got it's first gold medal winners, and on top of that, they are also the youngest winners. Best part of all is that they are Canadian!

Watch their body language, the chemistry is there, on and off the ice.