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Amethyst · 02-23-2018, 08:16 AM

I wouldn't be unhappy with Virtue/Moir, but if I was choosing, I would go with someone else, since they already carried it for the opening. It's not that I think we need to spread it around in an "everybody gets a ribbon" type way, but I am old enough to remember the days when the one of two athletes who won a medal and was still in town automatically carried it. I think choosing someone else celebrates the fact that Canada now has several athletes winning medals.

I don't know all the stories well enough to say for sure, but if McMorris wins a second medal, I would probably be pulling for him.

02-23-2018, 08:16 AM	#22
Amethyst First Line Centre Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Calgary Exp:	I wouldn't be unhappy with Virtue/Moir, but if I was choosing, I would go with someone else, since they already carried it for the opening. It's not that I think we need to spread it around in an "everybody gets a ribbon" type way, but I am old enough to remember the days when the one of two athletes who won a medal and was still in town automatically carried it. I think choosing someone else celebrates the fact that Canada now has several athletes winning medals. I don't know all the stories well enough to say for sure, but if McMorris wins a second medal, I would probably be pulling for him.