- February 28, 2010 10:03 PM
- By Bruce Arthur
For all the moments that made you so damned happy you wanted to cry -- the triumph of Alex Bilodeau and his brother Frederic, the delirium of Marianne St-Gelais as she watched her boyfriend Charles Hamelin win gold, the pure animal joy of Jon Montgomery -- what I will remember is the moments that made me want to weep.
- February 25, 2010 4:47 PM
- By Bruce Arthur
Every day the IOC and VANOC release Quotes of the Day. Mostly, it ranges from vaguely interesting to "They are not going to be easy to stop, I'll tell you that," from Russian goaltender Evgeni Nabokov after he let in six of the seven Canadian goals in a 7-3 loss. You think so, doctor?
- February 22, 2010 8:01 PM
- By Bruce Arthur
Brian Burke says Toronto Maple Leafs winger Mikhail Grabovski did not re-injure his broken wrist when he was engaged in an alleged street fight during these Olympics. Which doesn't mean the Leafs general manager is overly pleased, though.
- February 22, 2010 5:55 PM
- By Bruce Arthur
Curling is cool, right? As proud Canadians, we believe this. We love it when people from other nations suddenly discover our game of real-world ice chess at a hundred paces, and the Olympics is great for that.
- February 20, 2010 10:45 PM
- By Bruce Arthur
Nate Silver is kind of a genius. He's a predictor of all things political, with a hell of a record, and recently his project, fivethirtyeight.com, has begin to weigh in on the Olympic medal race. As of Thursday, ol' Nate had projected Canada for 31 medals, just two back of the United States.
- February 20, 2010 10:30 PM
- By Bruce Arthur
Oh, to be a lawyer for the International Olympic Committee. Sure, sometimes you have to defend your bosses from charges that their rules override stuff like, say, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But boy, you're kept busy.
- February 19, 2010 10:57 PM
- By Bruce Arthur
You know, I can't decide if I like Lindsey Vonn or not. On the one hand, she's a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model who is also a world-class athlete, and both of these things garner my respect. On the other, my feeling is that her shin injury was either heavily exaggerated or even outright fabricated in order to pump her personal storyline.
- February 19, 2010 10:41 PM
- By Bruce Arthur
Warner Hoeger might have been a tourist in the world of luge -- he's a professor who competed in his last Olympics when he was in his early 50s -- but he appears to have been an informed tourist, and he warned officials that the Whistler Sliding Centre was not safe for everybody.
- February 18, 2010 5:59 PM
- By Bruce Arthur
The Olympic medals being presented here are the heaviest in history, apparently. They're the kind of Olympic medals a person could use to bludgeon another person to death, if they were of a mind to, which they are presumably not. This would be terribly un-Olympian.
