I’m not a big Olympics fan, and I wish the world didn’t spend untold millions of public dollars on helping pour more money into the TV stations pockets by exploiting underpaid athletes. However that’s going to take as long to change as nationalised healthcare in the US, so there’s no real sense worrying about it. If the athletes wanted better pay, they can always get a real job like the rest of the planet.
I do have to say that I’m quite surprised by how good these Winter Olympics have been, despite all the anti-hype you can read in the Tabloids back home, but that’s what you get when the newspaper industry targets barely literate cretins. Basically Fox News for those who can read.
I watched the Ice Dancing last night with the wife and was pleasantly surprised to see Canada get gold. Youngest Figure Skaters ever to win, first from Canada and North America to win Gold in the event, which is quite impressive. It looks like the Canadian and American teams are likely to be facing off with each other for the next 3 or so Winter Olympics, which will certainly be interesting.
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