Ciao Torino,

If ya haven't guessed yet, I like the Olympics. Scratch that. I love the Olympics. That has been my life for the past two weeks or so and frankly the fact that I don't know what else happened during this time has not made my life any less complete.

Now let me get my first beef out of the way. Hey, CBC! It's Torino not Turin. T O R I N O.



I know that you may feel like you deserve to name the city whatever you want but get over it. Even NBC aired it as Torino. Hell. You didn't even support your own decision. Your commentators flipped and flopped back and forth between the two names. Also your graphics in the background and going to and from commercial, seemed to use either version seemingly at random. Hey, but I can't complain cause my expectations of the CBC are about as low as can be so it's not like all this was a shock to me. But I gotta say that the coupe de gras was when at the beginning of each prime time broadcast, Brian Williams would oh so graciously tell us exactly who won what medals right before they aired the show. I mean that's about as brilliant as you being told the ending of the season finally of your favourite show right before you watched it. I learned to watch NBC very quickly.

On a side note, I wanna know when the Fins got screwed and someone decided to universally change the country's name to Finland from their native Suomi. That's not even close.



Sticking with Finland. Anyone know that Conan O'Brien is a huge hit over there. The guy even campaigned on his show for the re-election of their president and she won. All because they seem to have been separated at birth.



Moving on. I'd like to congratulate Canada on being the Snapple of the Olympic world. I've never heard anyone being so happy about being 3rd other than during Snappel's ad campaigns of the 90s. That's not to say that I'm knocking the fact that Canada had its best showing ever and that it was only 1 medal behind the US, a country with a population 10 times as large. I'm proud of all those men and women....well....primarily the women. Thank you ladies for making up 35% of the team and bringing in 67% of the medals, 16 of 24. And I cannot imagine what we would have done without Cindy Klassen who single handedly won 5 medals.



And what about that Canadian Men's hockey team. I won't waste the space discussing it cause I can't cry about their $95 million in combined salaries. Next time let's send some players who actually care about winning a medal.

Why did the country do so well this time. Well, it's maybe because Canada finally dropped enough change so that our athlete's didn't have to hitchhike to get to the games or wax the other athletes' skis to cover their room and board. Don't believe me. On one of the broadcasts a ski coach mentioned that this was the first year that our skiers' biggest worry wasn't, who brought the wax, cause they had to do the job themselves when every other country has a crew of people to do that so the athlete's could actually concentrate on competing. A shocking concept to the Canadian government but it's not like they've been pissing money away while our athlete's suffered. OK....so that was really political but it had to be said.

And now I count down to the next games where my life will hit a time warp for 2 weeks when I will execute perfect couch potato form as I watch the pinnacle of physical achievement.

Cyber Jock