Stephen Colbert, it turns out, was right to dub Canadians as a "syrup-sucking" population of "iceholes." The pseudo-pundit whose satire takes a decidedly south of the border jingoistic bent just missed out noting it would be the U.S. ski jumping team to make it so.
By Jeremy Sandler, National Post
Stephen Colbert, it turns out, was right to dub Canadians as a "syrup-sucking" population of "iceholes."
The pseudo-pundit whose satire takes a decidedly south of the border jingoistic bent just missed out noting it would be the U.S. ski jumping team to make it so.
Canada's ski jumping team of Stefan Read, Trevor Morrice, Eric Mitchell and Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes will soon be slurping all the sweet stuff they can handle and after finishing behind the Americans at the Vancouver Olympics to lose a friendly wager.
"I wasn't there when they made that bet,'' Read told the Regina Leader-Post following his team's failure to reach the finals at Whistler's Olympic Park. "Trevor told me, 'Us and the Americans made a bet that whoever loses gets to drink maple syrup tomorrow.' I thought, 'Oh no.' What is it? A litre or a gallon? It's a lot of syrup and I'm not looking forward to it.''
What might be most galling is that the U.S. team hardly pancaked its Canadian competition.
The Americans were next-to-last in 11th place with 340 points, still good enough to beat out Canada's total of 294.6.
