My top 5 Olympic moments (so far)
Honourary favourite: Beijing Mascots. Photo: Tama Leaver, Flickr Creative Commons
1. Ian Miller and Team Canada’s equestrian silver medal: This team hasn’t had a medal since 1966! And Ian Miller is 61. And this is his NINTH Olympic Games. It was such a stellar win (down one rider on the team) and so bittersweet for Miller after his wife and business partner Lynne, died in March.
2. Priscilla Lopes-Schliep’s bronze medal in hurdles: Seemingly out of nowhere, the impressively muscle-bound Lopes-Schliep erases memories of Perdita and ends a 12-year medal drought in Canadian track.
3. Usain Bolt’s dancehall happy dance in the 200m: Hilarious.
4. Brian Price and Team Canada’s Gold medal in rowing: Awesome for those guys and Price is from my hometown. Go Belleville!
5. Canada’s 0 to 13 medal comeback: I eat my own words.
1. The ol’ grey mare is def what he used to be!
2. She makes us short girls feel like gold.
3. As if his last name is Bolt.
4. I knew a girl from Belleville who said that she was bullied there.
5. We all ate our words.
You’re silly!