Be Loud and Proud Canada!

The Canadian pride at these Olympics is outstanding. Our athletes are doing better than we could have hoped for, and the media is whining. What a bunch of do nothing babies. It appears that a lot of the empty seats at events is because the media is staying in the brier patch instead of actually going to the events. It appears the media have prorogued the Olympics.

Own the Podium is being revved up by the media as being arrogant and too "American". They are stating that if we don't win the medal count, the project will have been a failure. Do they think we are stupid, or are they the stupid ones?

Canada may not 'Own the Podium'
By STEVE BUFFERY, QMI Agency

VANCOUVER — The Canadian Olympic team will likely not ‘own the podium’ at these Olympic Games.

Perhaps they can rent a part of it from the Americans and Germans.

Chris Rudge, the CEO of the COC, said Thursday that it was his organization’s “goal” to finish first in Vancouver, but that nothing was etched in stone.

“Nobody ever said we ARE going to be No.1,” said Rudge. “We put that out as a goal and objective. Is the sky going to fall if we don’t? I don’t think so.”

Own the Podium was a $110-million initiative geared towards making Canada a superpower in winter sports in time for these Games. But Rudge reiterated yesterday that finishing No.1 was just a goal, and no one at the IOC is going to commit hara-kiri if it doesn’t come to fruition.

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Rudge was asked by a German journalist if this was the first time in his memory that Canadians were this aggressive and hungry for success at an Olympics.

“That’s probably fair that we’re historically, at least publicly, a more self-effacing nation,” he said. “I don’t think our athletes ever felt that way, they always wanted to be the best. But I think as a country, we’re probably talking about it a little bit more than we have. But I don’t think that in doing that you sacrifice the kind of niceness that we always thought we had. To some degree maybe Canadians thought we had a bit of a monopoly on virtue, and I’m not sure if that’s true. We’re just like everybody else in this world.”

Own the Podium was meant to rev up our athletes and the public, same with the "I Believe" slogan that CTV is busy selling on their web site. Difference is that Own the Podium gave money to our athletes and it appears to be paying off. The "I Believe" slogan is just that, a slogan, with merchandise to match.

So cheer loud and proud Canada! My favorite sports so far has been the curling, and speed skating. Anyone cheering for someone special in the Olympics?