Honestly, why should we care? Sure, it's nice to stick the old patriotic feather in our collective cap every four years, but for the remaining 216 of the 220 weeks that passes between Olympic years, I'm no worse off for Canada's deplorable low-medal count at the Summer Olympics. This is a winter sporting nation: It makes sense that Canada excels in Winter sports, and it stands to reason that this will be where the vast majority of our sporting dollars will be spent.
On a related note, does anyone remember seeing a hilarious mock-ad on This Hour has 22-Minutes aired during either the Athens or Sydney Games?
"Fourth! That's pretty good!"
Always failing to land on the podium ~ A part of our Canadian heritage...
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