Comments on: Malfunction of the Olympic Spirit http://thegrumpyowl.com/2010/02/19/malfunction-of-the-olympic-spirit/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:24:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Patrick M http://thegrumpyowl.com/2010/02/19/malfunction-of-the-olympic-spirit/#comment-2420 Patrick M Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:57:30 +0000 http://thegrumpyowl.com/?p=6432#comment-2420 All I can picture when I hear "Own The Podium" is a handful of Canadian athletes winning medals and 30 million other Canadians getting smug about it while sitting back in hockey sweaters ("MuuMuus with numbers on them" -- Tom Scharpling) and slurping sugared-up Timmie's. If we must have a program like Own the Podium, could we at least have had more fun with it, and called it something like "Destroy All Challengers and Pave Our Roads With Their Bones?" All I can picture when I hear “Own The Podium” is a handful of Canadian athletes winning medals and 30 million other Canadians getting smug about it while sitting back in hockey sweaters (“MuuMuus with numbers on them” — Tom Scharpling) and slurping sugared-up Timmie’s.

If we must have a program like Own the Podium, could we at least have had more fun with it, and called it something like “Destroy All Challengers and Pave Our Roads With Their Bones?”

]]> By: The Chairman http://thegrumpyowl.com/2010/02/19/malfunction-of-the-olympic-spirit/#comment-2410 The Chairman Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:31:50 +0000 http://thegrumpyowl.com/?p=6432#comment-2410 We do not own the podium after all. Chris Rudge, the chief executive of the Canadian Olympic Committee, conceded Monday morning that Canadian athletes will not meet the COC's goal of finishing first in the medal standings at the Winter Olympic Games. So it was not just a metaphor, they actually thought it possible. Amazing. On a bright note we now qualify for the laughing stock hall of fame. We do not own the podium after all.

Chris Rudge, the chief executive of the Canadian Olympic Committee, conceded Monday morning that Canadian athletes will not meet the COC’s goal of finishing first in the medal standings at the Winter Olympic Games.

So it was not just a metaphor, they actually thought it possible. Amazing.
On a bright note we now qualify for the laughing stock hall of fame.

]]> By: J. LaRue http://thegrumpyowl.com/2010/02/19/malfunction-of-the-olympic-spirit/#comment-2402 J. LaRue Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:03:32 +0000 http://thegrumpyowl.com/?p=6432#comment-2402 You guys have to get over this. We own the podium, so it's our right to rent it out and I think we're doing a pretty good job of that. Every day we've got more tenants up there and once those rent cheques clear, who's gonna be laughing? You guys have to get over this. We own the podium, so it’s our right to rent it out and I think we’re doing a pretty good job of that. Every day we’ve got more tenants up there and once those rent cheques clear, who’s gonna be laughing?

]]> By: The Chairman http://thegrumpyowl.com/2010/02/19/malfunction-of-the-olympic-spirit/#comment-2399 The Chairman Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:15:15 +0000 http://thegrumpyowl.com/?p=6432#comment-2399 How refreshing it is to read an Olympic revue free of nationalistic propaganda. Thank you for that. I'm going to puke if I read another mainstream media ecstatic description of pride all Canadians are feeling since Sunday, the day the first historic Canadian gold medal won by a Canadian on Canadian soil, by a Canadian Olympian, in Canada, for the first time in Canada during the Olympics, when Canada was hosting them in Canada (for the first time) This pride shit is unbearable. Humility suits us so much better. And where did we get the arrogance from? "We own the podium". Yeah right. And by the way is it just me or are these podiums ever hideous. They look like some horrible stained wood flee market clocks from the 70's Picture of Jesus and a Portuguese flag are the only things missing. Let's apologize to the world, fire the Olympic spinsters, boycott the "independent" media towing the party line, abandon pride, embrace humility. There is nothing we have to prove to the world. The way we are is just fine. Let's not be such dicks. How refreshing it is to read an Olympic revue free of nationalistic propaganda.
Thank you for that.
I’m going to puke if I read another mainstream media ecstatic description of pride
all Canadians are feeling since Sunday, the day the first historic Canadian gold medal won
by a Canadian on Canadian soil, by a Canadian Olympian, in Canada, for the first time
in Canada during the Olympics, when Canada was hosting them in Canada (for the first time)

This pride shit is unbearable. Humility suits us so much better.
And where did we get the arrogance from?
“We own the podium”. Yeah right.
And by the way is it just me or are these podiums ever hideous.
They look like some horrible stained wood flee market clocks from the 70′s
Picture of Jesus and a Portuguese flag are the only things missing.

Let’s apologize to the world, fire the Olympic spinsters,
boycott the “independent” media towing the party line,
abandon pride, embrace humility.
There is nothing we have to prove to the world.
The way we are is just fine. Let’s not be such dicks.

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