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Sunday,
Feb. 28
So I was
listening to the opera on Saturday afternoon (s’truth) on CBC Radio 2 (La Boheme) and Bill
Richardson had Michael Farber on as his guest. As in, Michael Farber the hall
of fame hockey writer for Sports Illustrated. Turns out he’s as big a fan of
opera as he is of hockey. He had been hoping for a Canada-Russia final, with Canada as his pick. Check out his take
on the quarter-final game here.
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Saturday,
Feb. 27
Not even
Satan could stand between Team Canada and its date with Team America on Sunday afternoon. Miroslav Satan,
that is. Right wing for Slovakia when not lacing his skates for
the Boston Bruins. Scored the winning goal against Norway and almost had the tying goal
against Canada. That’s why games are 60 minutes precisely
and not one second longer.
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Friday,
Feb. 26
The Canadian ego received a much-needed boost
with the women’s hockey gold medal victory over the Americans on Thursday. Walking
past CBC Vancouver in the waning minutes of the third
period, it was neat to watch CBC’s TV news anchors (they’re broadcasting from
the sidewalk during the Olympics), watching the game televised by CTV though the window of the restaurant next door
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Thursday,
Feb. 25
Downtown Vancouver erupted for joy at the conclusion
of the Russia-Canada hockey game. A wall
of sound washed across English Bay and over a solitary photographer
(me) setting up on Kits Point for some shots of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Vectorial Elevation light
show. People yelling from apartment windows, banging pots, blowing horns and
whistles, sounding car horns.
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Wednesday,
Feb. 24
The rain
returned on Tuesday, along with the wind, making for a cold and miserable day
for those who came outside in Vancouver. You’d think it was the middle of
winter. Even at that, there were lots of people out and about on foot downtown.
Not the stifling crowds of the sunny weekend, but still a lot of very
enthusiastic people braving the elements. You can measure the buzz level by the
length of the lineups at several key places. The Royal Canadian Mint has a
pavilion the features the process behind the making of Olympic medals and
allows viewers to handle the medals. Today’s lineup was down to about 90 minutes
from Saturday and Sunday’s four hours.
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Tuesday,
Feb. 23
Yet another
sunny day in Vancouver and Whistler Monday, though the rains are due to return
today. So Team Canada lost and the sun rose the next
morning. Maybe the fate of the nation is
not on the line after all. It was interesting to watch the shock sink in when
the U.S. scored in the opening minute. There
was absolute silence on a street where seconds before it had been Mardi Gras
without the nudity.
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Monday, Feb. 22
“Where will you spend eternity, heaven or hell? It’s
your decision”. The man was preaching at the sea of humanity surging around him
on Robson Street, five
minutes before the puck dropped in the Canada/U.S. hockey game Sunday night. I
say he was preaching “at” people as opposed to preaching “to” them because he
was about as all alone as one person could be in that tide of red and white. Team
Canada didn’t
appear to have an answer for the question, at any rate.
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Sunday,
Feb. 21
Now for a
word from our sponsors, or how about a few words about our sponsors. As much as
VANOC, the IOC and assorted and sundry world media can pontificate about the purity
of sport and how the Olympics builds healthy minds and bodies 57 different
ways, the reality is that there’s a lot of money changing hands here and if weren’t
for those folks with deep pockets there wouldn’t be an Olympics, no matter how
much virtue is at stake.
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