I only watch a few Winter Olympic events. Mainly hockey and curling and I normally don't cheer for a North American team in hockey. But thanks to you Canada, I did this winter and you made the 2010 Olympics for me, as the USA's rival and providing the three best Olympic moments for 2010.
I watch a great deal of hockey and the gold metal game was one of the best games I've seen in the past 10 to 15 years. The emotion was so high and controlled. The game had great flow and speed to it. And to end in sudden death overtime, ensuring that everyone was on the edge of their seat made it all the better. It's a sport Canada invented and it was in Canada. The pressure to win may have never been so great for any team ever and you did not disappoint.
If the United States hadn't beaten the Canadians earlier there is no way the gold metal game would've been the second most watched non-NFL sporting event ever. It gave the USA something to believe in and even though Canada would never admit it, I think it scared them just a little.
However, the best team in the world coming into the Olympics came out as the best team in the world. Also, Sidney Crosby proved for the second time in less then a year that he is undoubtedly the best player in the world. Last spring he etched his name on the most coveted trophy in sports, the Stanley Cup. This winter he scores the overtime game winner against the USA to win gold, neither of which Alexander the Great has accomplished.
But Crosby's game winner in the best game/event of the Olympics wasn't in the top two moments of the Olympics. Number two was in the second best game of the Olympics during the Great Britain/Canada men's curling match. Canada was down one with the last rock in the last end. The Canadian fans broke out into "O Canada." The Canadian men's team waited for them to finish and then, with a beautiful throw and the most powerful sweeping I've ever seen, they scored two and won the match.
The most touching moment of the Olympics came from Joannie Rochette. She somehow was able to keep her emotions together and win a bronze metal in figure skating just four days after her mother died suddenly of a heart attack. It's impossible to imagine what this young women was going though and to preform as beautifully as she did was truly amazing.
So Canada, congratulations on your great performance and thanks for making the 2010 Winter Olympics the best in recent memory.
