This Friday, the Vancouver Olympic Opening Ceremonies will take place. If you’re on the west coast, you can watch most of the events in real time, but if you’re on the east coast, it may be difficult to keep up! Fortunately, the coverage is generally quite good. Regardless of where you’re watching the Winter Olympics, one thing is for sure: it’s going to be an exciting year!
Olympic veterans like Apolo Ohno (speed skating), Shaun White (snowboarding) and our local favorite Seth Wescott (snowboarding) have what it takes to bring home the gold, and there are a whole plethora of young talented athletes who have their eyes on the prize. Even comedian Stephen Colbert has secured his place in the Olympics by being made an official assistant sports psychologist on the US Olympic speed skating team.
Who will you be rooting for in this years Olympic games? What are your favorite events? One more thing that is worth noting, Canada has hosted the Olympics two previous times (Montreal 1974, Calgary 1988) and has never won a gold medal on it’s own turf. Let’s hope they can bring home a gold this year!
GO TEAM CANADA!!
They have not even won a gold medal for curling? That is shocking to me.
White told the story of his mom taking his medal to get cleaned at the cleaners in the interview with Cris Collingsworth on NBC. It was very cool! Shaun questioned his mother if there was anyway they could get the gold medal ribbon clean as it had grown really dirty and his mother took the whole thing to the cleaners! Shaun was amazed when his mom brought it back with the dry cleaning bag over top of it. White also found it was funny that she complained about how much it was to get it cleaned.