Oh Canada!!

The flame has been extinguished, and the closing  ceremonies are over… but what a ride this Olympics was!!  I’m sure we will all watch highlights of the greatest moments of the top athletes again and again…but what were some of your personal highlights of the games?

These are some of my favourites…

I loved watching Apollo Ohno speed skate!!  He is magic to watch in a race…the way he starts off at the back of the pack and then sails past all the other skaters to win gold! What an athlete…he blew me away!!  How does he do that?  I wish I could do that with quilting…just sail to the finish line and produce a gold winning quilt with the ease that he has..!  (Apollo also had my vote on Dancing With the Stars!!)  What a guy!

I loved watching Shaun White on the Snowboard…OMG-what a wild man!!…If he was my son he’d make my hair go white…oh yeah my hair already is white!   With the gold medal secure he still had one more run… he could have played it safe and done a nice safe clean routine but no not Shaun.  He blew the whole snowboarding world out of the competition and performed tricks that only he could dream up and perfect…we  saw him sail right out of the pipe…Shaun turned me into a Snowboarding fan!!  

I loved watching Jon Montgomery sing O’Canada with so much pride and  enthusiasm that he made me want to join in!!  When he won his gold for the Skeleton his joy and surprise was exhilarating.  I loved it!! AND what a character he is…hamming it up for the cameras…clearly amazed by his win and enjoying EVERY moment!!

I loved watching Kim Yu-Nah the South Korean skater-she took my breath away!! Isn’t she sweet?

 

And I can’t help mentioning Joannie Rochette.  She is the Canadian figure skater who found out 2 days before her first performance that her mother had died of a heart attack. Rather than pull out of the competition, she chose to compete. Later she would say it was what her mother would have wanted her to do. I was a blubbering mess after her performance as she looked at the ceiling and blew a kiss. Where did she find the strength?

And do I need to mention the Canada/USA Hockey Game?…one word…Stressful!!  Nail biter!!  Ok that’s two! What a WIN!! OK, that’s three!  GOLD!  That’s the ONE we want to hear!!  What a game!!

All of these are just SOME of my favourites…and this is from someone who NORMALLY doesn’t watch the Olympics…who knew??

What about you – do you have some favourites?

Have a marvellous Monday and Happy Quilting!!