Our Olympix blog will keep you up to date on how Quebec athletes are doing at the Vancouver Olympics, as well as provide you with great pictures from The Gazette John Mahoney.
-Up here in the snow where Winter Games really belong, the
Paralympics lack the highbrow vibe of the Olympics with its
motorcades, millionaires and corporate sponsors.
If the job is to shoot yourself in the foot, look hard-hearted and show you don't quite get the true spirit of the Olympics, CTV's bean-counters take the gold.
No, it didn’t wind up being Babe Ruth calling the shot, Mohammed Ali the round or Mark Messier guaranteeing victory in the swamplands of Jersey.
They didn’t deliver on their vow.
The death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili and lingering questions about the safety of the Whistler Sliding Centre track are the most haunting legacies of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The memory plays tricks on us, because of World Cups and Canada
Cups and world juniors and all kinds of hockey games and titles
Canada has won that mattered very little in the grand scheme of
things to the Russians -- whose grand scheme is, and always has
been, the Olympics.
It's distressing to see spectacular young Canadians like Mellisa Hollingsworth and Denny Morrison talk about letting their country down and the empty feeling after they failed to medal.
Canada's golden girl Lauren Woolstencroft won her fifth gold, Viviane Forest won her fifth medal and Team Canada's wheelchair curlers beat Korea 8-7 to win gold.