Olympics
Day 14- A Crowning moment of Heartwarming and a Crowning Moment of Awesome
This day came the final round of competition in women’s figure skating. Among the competitors was Joannie Rochette. In the face of the tragic loss of her mother, she resolved to do the best in her final performance and be able to make her mother proud. After an emotion-filled, yet dignified performance, she was given a standing ovation by the judges, the audience, and her competitors. In the end, she won the bronze medal, to the emotional ovation of the spectators. Later, she will be one of two people who were awarded the Terry Fox Award for her determination amid her personal loss.
In Women’s Hockey, Canada once again faced their perennial archrivals, the American Women’s hockey team. However, in the end, it ended without any doubt. Canada blanked out the Americans 2-0. In the final two minutes of the game, the audience began to sing O Canada, with the final words sung just before the final bell. With that, Canada won their eighth Gold Medal in the Vancouver Olympic Games.
Day 15-Triple Gold!!!
On the 26th of February, Canada was about to get a Gold Rush. In Women’s Curling, Cheryl Bernard and her team, representing Canada was in the final end just behind Sweden 7-6. Suddenly, the crowd began to sing O Canada, proving to be a great morale booster for the team. Finally, they did it, removing several of the swede rocks, and won the Gold medal in Women’s curling.
The 26th also saw three medals from Short Track speed skating. In the men’s 5000m relay, Canada edged out the South Koreans to win Gold. In the men’s 500m, everything went amok. In the final lap, Charles Hamlin, South Korean Sung Si-Bak, Apolo Ohno, and Francois Louis Tremblay were neck in neck when suddenly, the rear three collided. It was found that Apolo Ohno had pushed on Nak, which disqualified him from the medals. As a result, Hamelin, Sung, and Tremblay won Gold, Silver and Bronze Respectively.
For the second and final Friday, the cheering and celebrating became a virtual pandemic. The entire Lower Mainland became a massive party, stretching from Vancouver all the way to Mission. Every city was full of people having a good time. Whether be it in sports bars, in the numerous community celebration sites, or even at people’s homes, one could literally hear the region’s partying from miles away. The cheer reached the centres of every city in Canada, from BC to Newfoundland, from the tropical paradise that is Turk and Caicos to the Canadian Forces bases in Afghanistan.
In fact, in every corner of the world, Canadians were coming out to celebrate, with hundreds of Canadians partying in Time Square, thousands cheering in the streets of Hong Kong (which ironically left little room for the usual night-time criminal activities), and even the Royal Family reportedly wearing Canadian jerseys, much to the consternation of the British Public and the ever-negative British media.