In the past 2 weeks, I have been paying attention to the Winter Olympics when I am taking a break after getting my son to sleep. Normally I don’t really care much about Olympics since it’s just another major sporting event with many mini sport competition. The difference here is that Canada is a hosting nation, embracing the world coming over to Vancouver as a really big party. Canada has shown our hospitality and you can see that on television there are tons of party everywhere in Vancouver. We have shown to the world our national pride, and in all the stadiums you see it’s basically a sea of red and white embracing our maple leaf flag, and we shamelessly tell the world that hockey is our sport. This is the kind of unity that I have not seen before and Canadians all over wants the world to know that we are a proud country. I’m planning to get a red and white jersey too whenever I actually get a chance to go shopping.
We live in a large and vast country with strangely divided politics and divided interests, but never have I seen before a united country all wanting the same thing. You can hear loudly in the stadiums and in the streets:
We want Gold.
Badly. And we did. And to top it off, we have the poster-boy of Canadian hockey scoring a golden goal in sudden-death overtime to get this gold. How golden can it get?
To all the hard-working athletes, you do own the podium, and I am proud to be a Canadian.
