so the British press are a bunch of whiners....A thousand times yes. The Vancouver Olympics have unloaded more glitches than giant inflatable ice phalluses (phalli?)....A few hundred times sure.
Does this necessitate a full-on culture war, casting blame hastily for a tragic death and comparison of bad vs. badder vs. baddest times past? Not really.
'Vancouver Olympics worst ever,' proclaimed headlines this side of the pond. EVER. Wow, so terrorist attacks and kidnappings, anti-abortion bombers, relocation of entire populations, 5 year imprisonments of 77 and 79 year old grandmothers for peaceful protesting and international media black-outs withstanding, you may be inching closer to some semblance of a reasoned perspective.
The BBC team has more people than Britain has athletes in Vancouver. Me thinks the false-sense of superiority downtrodden defeatist journalists would do best to cover their own athletes or lack of athletes for that matter rather than stymie a justified inquiry into just why it is countries like Norway with a fraction of the population manage to do so well while the Brits might not see even one of their own on the podium. I'm recalling the late 70's advert placing the physical fitness of an octogenarian Nord over their international 40 year old comparisons.
Maybe we should all be walking with poles?
So sounds a call that come London 2012, it is 'all systems go' on the whiny media attack front- a flurry of digital denigration, a blitz of scathing pettiness for banal banter. That not withstanding, Canadians will not be thaaat reactionary. "When we make mistakes, we have to fix them," organizing head John Furlong shrugs. And as my American friend puts, "Don't get bitter, get better."
In honor of said friend's Bday: CHI TOWN get down!
Kelli Welli's (lesser) doppelganger. Rosario was second but she can neither sing nor juke.
