I'm feeling a bit down, as I always do when these games come to a close...although the throat infection doesn't help...LOL.
Random thoughts:
NBC's coverage sucked, but they should be drawn and quartered for cutting off the closing ceremonies!!
I reaaaaalllly wish I had a recording of the closing ceremonies. The Moscow Chamber Chorus singing the National Anthem of the Russian Federation in the thundering acoustics of that stadium was...fierce. That captured the power, finesse, darkness, and mystery of Russian classicism like nothing else I've heard.
Someone somewhere on line referred to a broadcaster that I have never liked as "bewildered news anchor Tom Brokaw". I thought that was a fitting description, although I have to bregrudgingly give him props for his Gander story.
Canada is just damn cool.
The games were AMAZING.
THE BEST HOCKEY GAME EVER PLAYED, BAR NONE.
Oh yeah, there was other stuff too.
The Chinese pair that won gold after skating together for...18 years, or something like that? Bode Miller actually grew up. Lindsey Jacobellis f---ed up her snowboarding again. Ski cross and snowboard cross are insane. Julia Mancuso still wears a tiara. We actually beat a Russian in figure skating (how did that happen?). Shawn White's snowboard tricks...lemme just say I hope that guy doesn't end up with a broken neck! Apolo Ohno has gotten even easier on the eyes. A blind U.S. bobsleigh driver can see again. A Czech skier falls off an embankment, breaks ribs, messes up a lung.....and somehow wins bronze..give her a special award for that! A Polish skier wins her country their first Winter Olympic gold in a very long time.
But the question weighing on my mind....
WHY WASN'T RUSH IN THE OPENING OR CLOSING CEREMONIES????????
Sigh...only the best band ever...and they happen to be Canadian...
A certain measure of innocence
Willing to appear naive
A certain degree of imagination
A measure of make-believe
A certain degree of surrender
To the forces of light and heat
A shot of satisfaction
In a willingness to risk defeat
Celebrate the moment
As it turns into one more
Another chance at victory
Another chance to score
The measure of the moment
In a difference of degree
Just one little victory
A spirit breaking free
One little victory
The greatest act can be
One little victory
A certain measure of righteousness
A certain amount of force
A certain degree of determination
Daring on a different course
A certain amount of resistance
To the forces of the light and love
A certain measure of tolerance
A willingness to rise above
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