Where did the polite, almost cuddly country go that I grew up in the shadow of? (When I was a kid, Buffalo, N.Y., was already shrinking, so we often headed 90 minutes north to Toronto.)
In a bid to bring home more gold medals, the Canadians began the "Own the Podium" program. But it all seems a little crass now that we learn that the Canadians wouldn't let outsiders practice that much on the unsafe-at-any-speed luge course and the True North's women's hockey team then posted an 18-0 victory.
Eighteen to nothing? Sounds like something a team south of the border would do.
In a bid to bring home more gold medals, the Canadians began the "Own the Podium" program. But it all seems a little crass now that we learn that the Canadians wouldn't let outsiders practice that much on the unsafe-at-any-speed luge course and the True North's women's hockey team then posted an 18-0 victory.
Eighteen to nothing? Sounds like something a team south of the border would do.