I am not boycotting the athletes (most of them anyway) but rather the two faced commercial interests that sell us out each and every day.
But I do like Americans beating Canadians.
Anyone else boycotting the Winter Olympics?
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And Canada really likes beating the Americans at hockey.
So stay tuned!
And in case you didn't notice, we knocked out the Americans in the "soccer" World Cup qualifiers, although calling either team Canadian (only 8 of 24 players are Canadians) or American is as much of a stretch as saying Canadians beat Americans when the Raptors won the NBA Championship. And who watches soccer anyway (in North America)?
I agree that the Olympics have everyone speaking out of both sides of their mouths. That's the price for international competitions. And the Olympics, and everything around it, leading up to it, and after it, are every bit as much of a commercial enterprise as any pro sports.I am not boycotting the athletes (most of them anyway) but rather the two faced commercial interests that sell us out each and every day.
But I do like Americans beating Canadians.
And Canada really likes beating the Americans at hockey.
So stay tuned
!And in case you didn't notice, we knocked out the Americans in the "soccer" World Cup qualifiers, although calling either team Canadian (only 8 of 24 players are Canadians) or American is as much of a stretch as saying Canadians beat Americans when the Raptors won the NBA Championship. And who watches soccer anyway (in North America)?
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And yet a Canadian team hasn’t won the Stanley Cup since 1993And Canada really likes beating the Americans at hockey.
So stay tuned
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Sorry, your internet is breaking up. I can't really hear you.And yet a Canadian team hasn’t won the Stanley Cup since 1993
We justify that statistic by saying that Canadians win the Stanley Cup every year! Just not a team located in a Canadian city. Tampa's roster last year was 15 Canadians of 32. 6 Americans.
Being from Toronto area, we are installing a granite sign outside of the arena that says: "I think next year will be the year". Seems like that will have lasting significance. (This year is looking good though???????)
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I agree that the Olympics have everyone speaking out of both sides of their mouths. That's the price for international competitions. And the Olympics, and everything around it, leading up to it, and after it, are every bit as much of a commercial enterprise as any pro sports.
And Canada really likes beating the Americans at hockey.
So stay tuned
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And in case you didn't notice, we knocked out the Americans in the "soccer" World Cup qualifiers, although calling either team Canadian (only 8 of 24 players are Canadians) or American is as much of a stretch as saying Canadians beat Americans when the Raptors won the NBA Championship. And who watches soccer anyway (in North America)?
LMAO!! Soccer? That’s not a real sport. C’mon limp-wrist. You can do better can’t ya?
I didn’t even watch the olympics in a bar tonight having dinner…. Instead watched Purdue beat Michigan and I never watch college basketball.
and I never watch college basketball.
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You also beat us in curling. So there's that. Country is going to hell. Lets go Brandon.x
I agree that the Olympics have everyone speaking out of both sides of their mouths. That's the price for international competitions. And the Olympics, and everything around it, leading up to it, and after it, are every bit as much of a commercial enterprise as any pro sports.
And Canada really likes beating the Americans at hockey.
So stay tuned
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And in case you didn't notice, we knocked out the Americans in the "soccer" World Cup qualifiers, although calling either team Canadian (only 8 of 24 players are Canadians) or American is as much of a stretch as saying Canadians beat Americans when the Raptors won the NBA Championship. And who watches soccer anyway (in North America)?
Which is why I specifically said “no Canadian team” has won the Stanley Cup since 1993. That’s gotta sting a bit for a country so prided in hockey? And why do most of your good players all come here to play on American teams?
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Hot girls curling is pretty awesome!
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Its just math. There are more teams in the US. And they recruit from Canada I guess.
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Did you even read my post? I agree no one watches soccer. And poking fun over sports rivalries is not hostile. Its just fun. So spare the childish insults. Limp-wrist? Wow. What, are you 12 years old?
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We did a small charity corporate event for clients one time (I think about 5 years ago?) and had Rachel Homan and her team give us all curling lessons at the beginning. Then they supervised our little tournament and you could "buy a shot" from them and they would throw and sweep one rock for your team. The skill they have is pretty amazing. They were, and still are, in great shape, and good looking, in a hometown girl kind of good way.
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Not always …. Boone Jenner and his parents are family friends in Canada…Boone got spotted by the Columbus Blue Jackets a few years ago. That was Boones only offer. He has done quite well for himself since. Captain this year with another contract.
I am sure the great players out of the gate might be sought after by multiple teams but I suspect thats only a few.
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Not only money sir, get out of the cold and the same reasons most of the world wants to come here. Land of opportunity we enjoy.
I should have added that I hope all those people threating to go to Canada went.
We couldn't be so lucky.
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No. They’re not coming for opportunity. They’re coming for handouts.
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So anyone watching the Olympic hockey? Oh yeah. Sorry about that.
GO CANADA! Its pretty cool for us old guys that still lace-em-up to watch a team with a bunch of old guys (by hockey standards) doing well against younger teams.
Well, we are out too now. Go Canadas women!
GO CANADA! Its pretty cool for us old guys that still lace-em-up to watch a team with a bunch of old guys (by hockey standards) doing well against younger teams.
Well, we are out too now. Go Canadas women!
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On the flip side, there is an American athlete (skater I think) whos father stood in protest in Tiananmen Square (I don't think he's the tank guy, but was there) who came to America with nothing, is now a lawyer, and his daughter skates for the USA.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/S...-figure-skaters-shine-for-Team-USA-in-Beijing
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Humphries wins Olympic bobsled gold for U.S.; Canada's de Bruin takes bronze
Kaillie Humphries crossed the finish line, stood on her sled and defiantly posed with folded arms.
A two-time Olympic gold medallist with Canada, the women's bobsled icon was back atop the podium on the sporting world's biggest stage.
Only this time, she was decked out in Stars and Stripes.
Following a trying four years that included accusations of harassment leading to an acrimonious split with the country of her birth, Humphries won the inaugural monobob race at the Beijing Games on Monday in her first Olympics representing the United States.
"It's a feeling of pride and elation and excitement," she said. "This one feels more emotional than most. It just really hits the heartstrings.
"I feel very proud. I feel very honoured ... I feel like I've found my people."
Humphries won with a dominant combined four-run time of four minutes 19.27 seconds, besting American teammate Elana Meyers Taylor by 1.54 seconds -- an eternity in bobsled and the biggest margin of victory at the Olympics in 42 years.
"It all worked," Humphries said. "I gave my heart and soul to this sport, to this country, to what I love to do."
Canada's Christine de Bruin -- Humphries' former teammate -- finished third in 4:21.03 in the new women's pilot-only bobsled discipline at Yanqing National Sliding Centre.
"It's sweet, it's insane," the 32-year-old from Stony Plain, Alta., said after winning her first Olympic medal.
"It's so surreal."
Toronto's Cynthia Appiah, meanwhile, was eighth on the 1,615-metre, 16-turn track located about 90 kilometres north of Beijing.
Humphries fought back tears with her hand over her heart as she sang 'The Star-Spangled Banner' before hugging Meyers Taylor for the traditional photo on the top step of the podium after the trio received their medals, but didn't do the same with de Bruin.
"She is one of the greats," said de Bruin, choosing her words carefully. "To be up there with her is pretty cool."
Humphries and Meyers Taylor are the first women to win bobsled medals at four straight Olympics, but the latter said they've had their "differences" as teammates.
"It was actually easier when she was competing for Canada to be friends, because we're not competing for resources, we're not competing for brakemen," said Meyers Taylor, who tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in China and was a question mark to compete. "But I have so much respect for her.
"She's done incredible things for the sport, and will continue to do incredible things for the sport."
Humphries won gold piloting for Canada in the two-woman discipline at both the 2010 and 2014 Olympics, and finished third in 2018, but then had a very public split with the program.
She started racing for the U.S. in 2019 after being granted her release by Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton.
The Calgary product's third podium-topping performance at a Games also came in the wake of a number of challenges just getting to China.
Humphries didn't require U.S. citizenship to race at other international events, but needed a passport for the Olympics.
"I'm used to controlling ... a lot of aspects of my career," she said. "But that was one that no matter how hard I fought for, it was never going to be in my control."
The 36-year-old got the proper documents with just weeks to spare, but then tested positive for COVID-19 last month before recovering in time to make the trip to Beijing following a roller-coaster stretch.
"To have to part ways, to give up a career, to walk away, to have to stand up for myself in order to put myself in the best state mentally and physically to be safe, I had to advocate for myself," she said. "And that isn't always the easiest thing to do. I had to overcome and work really hard through a lot of uncertainty and a lot of doubt.
"I had to rely heavily on my teammates, on my coaching staff, on my family and friends, and stick very close to a very small-knit group of people that believed that I still had it."
Kaillie Humphries crossed the finish line, stood on her sled and defiantly posed with folded arms.
A two-time Olympic gold medallist with Canada, the women's bobsled icon was back atop the podium on the sporting world's biggest stage.
Only this time, she was decked out in Stars and Stripes.
Following a trying four years that included accusations of harassment leading to an acrimonious split with the country of her birth, Humphries won the inaugural monobob race at the Beijing Games on Monday in her first Olympics representing the United States.
"It's a feeling of pride and elation and excitement," she said. "This one feels more emotional than most. It just really hits the heartstrings.
"I feel very proud. I feel very honoured ... I feel like I've found my people."
Humphries won with a dominant combined four-run time of four minutes 19.27 seconds, besting American teammate Elana Meyers Taylor by 1.54 seconds -- an eternity in bobsled and the biggest margin of victory at the Olympics in 42 years.
"It all worked," Humphries said. "I gave my heart and soul to this sport, to this country, to what I love to do."
Canada's Christine de Bruin -- Humphries' former teammate -- finished third in 4:21.03 in the new women's pilot-only bobsled discipline at Yanqing National Sliding Centre.
"It's sweet, it's insane," the 32-year-old from Stony Plain, Alta., said after winning her first Olympic medal.
"It's so surreal."
Toronto's Cynthia Appiah, meanwhile, was eighth on the 1,615-metre, 16-turn track located about 90 kilometres north of Beijing.
Humphries fought back tears with her hand over her heart as she sang 'The Star-Spangled Banner' before hugging Meyers Taylor for the traditional photo on the top step of the podium after the trio received their medals, but didn't do the same with de Bruin.
"She is one of the greats," said de Bruin, choosing her words carefully. "To be up there with her is pretty cool."
Humphries and Meyers Taylor are the first women to win bobsled medals at four straight Olympics, but the latter said they've had their "differences" as teammates.
"It was actually easier when she was competing for Canada to be friends, because we're not competing for resources, we're not competing for brakemen," said Meyers Taylor, who tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving in China and was a question mark to compete. "But I have so much respect for her.
"She's done incredible things for the sport, and will continue to do incredible things for the sport."
Humphries won gold piloting for Canada in the two-woman discipline at both the 2010 and 2014 Olympics, and finished third in 2018, but then had a very public split with the program.
She started racing for the U.S. in 2019 after being granted her release by Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton.
The Calgary product's third podium-topping performance at a Games also came in the wake of a number of challenges just getting to China.
Humphries didn't require U.S. citizenship to race at other international events, but needed a passport for the Olympics.
"I'm used to controlling ... a lot of aspects of my career," she said. "But that was one that no matter how hard I fought for, it was never going to be in my control."
The 36-year-old got the proper documents with just weeks to spare, but then tested positive for COVID-19 last month before recovering in time to make the trip to Beijing following a roller-coaster stretch.
"To have to part ways, to give up a career, to walk away, to have to stand up for myself in order to put myself in the best state mentally and physically to be safe, I had to advocate for myself," she said. "And that isn't always the easiest thing to do. I had to overcome and work really hard through a lot of uncertainty and a lot of doubt.
"I had to rely heavily on my teammates, on my coaching staff, on my family and friends, and stick very close to a very small-knit group of people that believed that I still had it."
