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Let the acclaims begin. And there was a time, however transient and early, when no one brooding they would ever guess that. Not with a accurate face, at least. But the unscathed fortnight of the 21st Winter Olympic Games took its remind from Opening Day, which began in upset and chagrin and ended in celebration and praise. Celebration match this country hasn't seen since Paul Henderson's aspiration against the Soviet Union in 1972, hold responsible you very much, Mr. Crosby. Way to go Vancouver.
Like the men's hockey body you rallied from a sluggish opportunity to end in triumph. And you embraced these Games adore no entertainer city has since the widely-mourned time of intimate small town Games died off after the 1994 Lillehammer love-in. Pre-Olympics, the publicity was in general adversarial in this epicentre of Canadian activism, as many locals pledged to off township and environmental and social-welfare groups justifiably shone a accent on the immoderate expense. And those concerns and protests continued through the prime weekend, with the angst and bore multiplied exponentially by the nauseating death of lugist Nodar Kumaritashvili on Day One. Canada's miss one's footing out of the competitive blocks, the malfunctioning whatchamacallit in the Opening Ceremonies, the transportation glitches, the idiotic uber-security keeping the Olympic cauldron from the kith and kin who had paid for it and will settle for it for a generation, all added to the reason that these were flourishing to be The Games to Forget, The Games to Endure.
But things started inching toward transformation when the iniquitous gold-at-home drought was lastly relieved by a reduce mogulist, Alex Bilodeau. He struck the mould for what became a Games of passionate backstories. His older fellow-citizen has cerebral palsy and has been Bilodeau's lifelong hero. Now Bilodeau is the country's, too.
That provided Canada some steam on the meadow of recreation while off it, the fires were stoked by a galvanizing vomiting of patriotism on the streets. Even close by organizers were shocked by the swarm influx of Vancouverites, admittedly mostly between 18 and 30, who transformed downtown into a monster mosh dimple every night. Canadian nationalism--and a raging, healthy, necessary, dispute of what constitutes it -- was the vibes of the Vancouver Games. The Canadian Olympic Committee had predicted that Own the Podium, which injected $110 million into athlete evolution over the done four years, would denouement in Canada peerless the medals count.
But five days in, with Canada's closest neighbour brilliantly stampeding to its best Olympics ever, it was certain that Canada could not nip the overall medal count. Own the Podium was soon harpooned domestically and mocked internationally: Blown the Podium; Rent the Podium; Go Fourth; Plead the Fifth. And, maddening to screen its athletes, the COC publicly retreated when they should have intimately moved the goalposts.
Canada could still bring home the bacon the gold medal count, which is in actuality the or oecumenic ideal of Olympic supremacy. And Canada did word for word that, in resounding plus-brilliants-exploits fashion, with yesterday's 3-2 overtime hockey secure giving the nation 14 gold medals to away the worn out Winter Games' transcribe of 13 (Norway, 2002, the past Soviet Union, 1976). Sure, there were more medals up for grabs than ever before, but the country's premature huge had been seven golds. This is creating a wave vary in our nationalist self-image as smiling, kindly near-missers. And Crosby's title-holder validated the trend.
"These Games have inspired an intact country to feel in themselves," COC president Mike Chambers said in his closing oration last to the hockey win. "I don't muse we set the awry end at all. Because of that target, we got 13 gold. You communicate with for the stars and you seize what you can get.
We happened to lay 13 of their brightest stars." A fragment of spiritual revisionist history, that, and the program itself should be revised slight toward that of the non-official U.S. policy.
Stateside, prepossessing is everything, and the byproduct can evolve into what has for good happened with the U.S. As one American said, "we picked up all the general change": silvers and bronzes as an alternative of the close-to-the-podium results Canadian officials were so distinguished of yesterday. Canada led all nations in fourths and fifths.
As always, hockey -- the women's and men's teams repeating their 2002 march of the U.S -- overwhelmingly captured the inhabitant interest, especially yesterday. But, paradoxically, hockey and its deep-rooted passion, wouldn't have transcended their sporting boundaries in Vancouver as quite as a twosome of other sports and emotions did … if the taking object hadn't been so legendary. Crosby aside, the loyal sporting symbols of these Games were snowboarding and personality skating.
The last embodies the once-staid Olympics' express squad toward edgy, X-Games events and the latter produced three of the greatest nights in its representation and, on the halfway point Sunday (the same twilight Canada abandoned to the U.S. in the men's introduction hockey rounds), Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir's Original Dance launched Canada into its greatest Olympic week. Ever.
And the two most dominating performances, by far, in these Games came from a snowboarder, American Shaun White, and a depend on skater, Korean Yu-Na Kim who was coached by Canadian icon Brian Orser. The deaths of Kumaritashvili and Therese Rochette brutally punctured the spirit of invincibility that always surrounds an happening where thousands of kind thoroughbreds meet in the consummation acclimatize of their careers. But the comportment in which Joannie Rochette soared far above her crushing grief was the most indestructible impact of these Games. She was a creditable choice, mid many, to be the Closing Ceremonies flag-bearer, partly because she was unit of the Canadian women's monumental medal haul.
The athletes' promenade ended one of the most glittering weekends in Canadian Olympic history. By Saturday afternoon, Canada had won a stupefying five gold medals in less than 30 hours, including a distance three on Friday. And you may have heard about what happened yesterday.
Many of those old golds -- precipitateness skater Denny Morrison, short-tracker Charles Hamelin and veterans Kevin Martin in curling and Jasey-Jay Anderson in snowboarding -- underscored another Canadian thesis at these Games. Redemption. And through it all, one of the biggest stars was TV and its descendants.
Wall-to-wall coverage on multiple platforms, all in HD, presented the Games and stories in unprecedented vividness. Some might prognosticate overkill, but they didn't spoil their sets off. With 26 medals, beating the 2006 upon by only two, but still the highest ever for Canada, "it's prospering to price us a lot of money," Chambers said, referring to the medal bonuses which will quantity to as much as $1.7 million.
That comes out of the covert sector contributions to Own the Podium. Incoming COC president Marcel Aubut proclaimed these "the best Games ever," which they decidedly were not. But in their slowly building, and later unstoppable, energy there were times when it certainly felt be fond of it. More than half the Canadians polled over the weekend said Vancouver 2010 would provoke them to become more physically active.
Should that ever be found true, it would be an greater legacy than the record-winning gold medal count.
