So the 2010 edition of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver came to a close yesterday hot on the heels of a Canadian win in the hockey final against the United States earning us probably the only gold medal most Canadians cared about.
I was busily migrating Kari’s email and wasn’t watching the game with my full attention but every time a goal was scored I knew about it. As the clock ticked down the final minute I decided to give the game my undivided attention and, of course, the Americans scored to tie up the game 
. At this point I figured it might be best if I didn’t watch the game anymore. Thankfully a few minutes later our boys got the job done.
These Winter Olympic games proved to be the best showing ever for Canada. We earned 14 gold medals, setting the record for the number of gold medals earned by a single nation during the Winter Olympics, along with 7 silver and 5 bronze. Only the US and Germany managed to snag more medals than Canada with 37 (9 gold/15 silver/13 bronze) and 30 (10 gold/13 silver/7 bronze) medals respectively but I think it’s safe to say that our medals were of better quality 
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My Facebook news feed is full of people proclaiming that they’re proud to be Canadian which isn’t something that people normally do. Instead it’s usually full of people proclaiming how awesome it is to be Italian or Portuguese. I must say that this is a nice change since instead of being at each others throats we’re all rooting for the same team. So until the 2010 FIFA World Cup… go Canada!
