So Canadian Olympic Committee came out and admitted the obvious on Monday, that the "Own the Podium" program would not meet its stated goal of leading the medal standings.
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Some suggested alternatives to 'Own the Podium'
- February 23, 2010 5:45 PM |
- By Erin Valois
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By Jeremy Sandler, National Post
So Canadian Olympic Committee came out and admitted the obvious on Monday, that the "Own the Podium" program would not meet its stated goal of leading the medal standings.
It came a day after COC honchos spent time Sunday assuring who would listen that everything was right on course, but committee head Chris Rudge conceded first overall at the 2010 Vancouver Games is an unrealistic goal.
"We are not where we wanted to be," he said while promising a re-examination of the program. "We will eviscerate this program to the nth degree to see what happened."
What Rudge did not say is that mottos will altogether be scrapped. And so, while it may take months for the COC to issue its report, National Post is pleased to get started offering potential new slogans for future Canadian Olympic teams to replace "Own the Podium."
• Putting the "Meh" in medals
• Now he top I mud (anagram for Own The Podium)
• Own the area just behind and to the left of the podium
• Self-aggrandizement is so 2010
• May the fourth be with us
• Preliminary heat champions or bust
• In some ways, we're all winners, (but in another, more accurate way, we
aren't)
• Mittens! Mittens! Mittens!
• How about we do our best and see what happens?
• Everyone tries hard.
• Mottos are a lose-lose situation.
• Let's keep sport in perspective
• Anthem ceremonies ruin dinner plans
• The first rule of medals, nobody talks about medals
• We've got 20% of the planet's fresh water; you can't drink medals
• Beaver syrup back bacon hoser beer
• Okay we suck at biathlon, but when did we last lose a war?
• Proudly sewing flags on backpacks since 1965
• Sometimes hearts only glow in the flaming wreckage of dashed ambition
• Come back, Stephen Colbert, come back
• Oh yeah, we remember sportsmanship
• Our best is going to have to be good enough
• Cirque du crap
• Sixth hits the meat of the bell curve
• There are other Dion sisters we could unleash
• Detrimentum a mari usque ad mare
• Honestly, hockey's all that matters
About the Author
- Bruce Arthur Bruce Arthur is the National Post's national sports columnist. A Vancouver native, he has been with the Post since 2001, and a columnist since 2005. He is covering his second Olympics, after the 2008 Games in Beijing. He expects these Games to be slightly less propagandistic, and for China to win slightly fewer medals.
- Joe O'Connor Joe O'Connor is a roving sports feature writer with an open-ended beat. He joined the National Post in 2002, and has spent the past seven years bouncing from sport to sport, offering fresh perspectives and delivering unique stories wherever he goes. Whether it has been getting Don Cherry to open up about his love life; George Chuvalo to talk about heartbreaking loss; or racing down the side of a mountain with former Crazy Canuck, Dave Irwin, the veteran Postie chases a story wherever it leads. Before joining the newspaper he was a two-time silver medalist at the National Magazine Awards. Vancouver will be his first Olympics.
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