I am so excited I could scream!
After tomorrow I am off until the 24th of February. I still had 2 weeks of vacation left to take before the end of April, and I thought what could be better than taking the two weeks of the Olympics off, so that Marcel and I could take advantage and watch them live... day and night.
Marcel and I love watching the Olympics. Both Summer and Winter; but truth be told, it's really about the Winter Olympics. We met only a few months before the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and we spent as time as we could during those two weeks watching every event we could. We became experts on event sport, judging all we saw.
It's a little different this year. To watch or not to watch. There's been so much talk about the Anti-gay laws on the books in Russia. Protests and boycotts, are buzzwords that are forever twinned with Sochi. What to do? I agree that the laws are barbaric, ridiculous and downright fucked up, but these athletes have spent years, if not most of their lives training for this moment. Who really wants to deny them their moment to shine? I don't.
I think the World has judged Russia already, and I think the World will also judge Russia harshly on their Olympics. If the news reports coming out of Sochi the past few days are any example of what we will remember (along with the Anti-gay laws) about unfinished venues, unfinished Media venues, unfinished accommodations. Tandem toilets. Yellow water. Corruption, and on and on and on... then karma is being served. And hopefully in time these insane laws might be reversed.
My hopes over the next two weeks are that our athletes do their best. If they medal, all the better. And I hope even more so that there are no tragic events, no terrorist attacks, no violence.
Marcel and I are ready for the Olympics. We're ready to be be amazed by the athletes performances. And we're more than ready to judge every event we watch. And we've done our voodoo to ensure Canada wins more medals than the US. ;-)
GO CANADA, GO!
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