Canadian Women Continue Their Winning Ways

The male contingent of Canada’s athletic representation really needs to get their shit together over this final weekend of the Olympic Games. The Canadian women are making the male gender look bad with their dominating performances.

Female athletes have accounted for 75% of our total medal haul, single-handedly giving Canada a chance to have a great showing on the world stage.

The Women’s hockey team kicked things off first with an efficient (wo)man handling of the US. Though the score was only 2-0, the outcome was never really in doubt as the Canucks got the early lead and never gave the Americans a chance to mount a comeback.

There is a bit of a sour note on Canada’s third straight gold in Olympic hockey. Apparently, the Nazis at the IOC are all up in arms because our women, in true Canadian fashion, celebrated their victory with a case or two of Molson Canadian.

Way to rain on our parade, IOC. That’s how we do things in the Great White North. We drink beer to commemorate special occasions and I would think a gold medal victory should suffice (Hell, I crack open a brew if I figure out how to PVR American Idol on the first try).

Apparently, the IOC is worried about the message a few beers will send to the youngsters in the crowd. Oh, wait. The building was completely empty during this portion of the celebration? It was a private moment between Team Canada and their coaching staff?

Maybe worry more about the corruption poisoning your organization and less about some good old Canadian gals having a few wobbly pops.

How about Joannie Rochette? She is a late addition to my roster of Team Canada hotties. Plus, the emotional turmoil she has undergone in the last week is nothing short of incredible. How she found the strength to still compete after losing her mother is unfathomable. I must admit, after her long program performance last night, it got a little misty around the Tewks household.

I’m saving the rest of my Olympic thoughts for the podcast CSzem and I are recording on Sunday afternoon. It will be a recap of Canada’s performance at the Games, our thoughts on specific sports and the hosting job of the City of Vancouver. Plus, it will be funny. I think.

Quick Survivor Thoughts:

Has there ever been more disparate tribes in terms of team strengths than Heroes versus Villains? In every challenge thus far the Heroes have dominated every physical portion and the Villains have dominated anything involving brainpower.

This dichotomy was readily apparent last night after the Heroes whitewashed the Villains 8-0 in that pillow fight challenge. It wasn’t even close. I’d love to hear the family CSzem defend James’ poor sportsmanship of throwing his pad on top of a defeated Randy. Very impressive, James. You beat up on an old guy. Kudos.

Evidence that the Heroes tribe are basically just meatheads: JT actually used the word ‘strategical’ with a straight face. And Tom, bless his heart, tried to sound smart when describing his tribemates propensity to scheme and backstab this early in the game.

He said that hoped “people would play Marcus Queensbury rules,” which means fair play and honesty. Unfortunately, the correct pronunciation of the term is ‘Marquis of Queensbury.” A valiant effort though.

I’m still not ready to unleash full-blown Survivor recaps until they lose a few more people or have consistently stellar episodes (last night was kind of weak).

Have a good weekend.