Oh Canada!
If you have a vision thats worth getting out of bed for in the morning, then nothing else matters.
-John Furlong, CEO Vancouver Olympic Winter Games
In honor of the one year anniversary of our amazing Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler, BC a good time to reflect on all that our athletes and nation accomplished over 17 historic days in February. If you were able to catch the two hour Olympic Anniversary special on CTV tonight, you know what I mean. It brought back great memories of being in Whistler village and enjoying our countries moment in the sun…and some would say coming out party, or as Lloyd Robertson would say the “Grand cresendo of national togetherness.” Something that sums it up nicely from an outsiders perspective is a closing article last year and thank you note from Brian Williams (the other Brian Williams) from NBC Nightly news.
See below.
Happy one year anniversary Canada from our unbelievable 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/02/26/4372324-leaving-behind-a-thank-you-note
Leaving behind a thank-you note
Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor, NBC
After tonight’s broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we’re going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week. Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you note.
Thank you, Canada:
For being such good hosts.
For your unfailing courtesy.
For your (mostly) beautiful weather.
For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.
For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents.
For your unique TV commercials — for companies like Tim Hortons — which made us laugh and cry.
For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon.
For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games — you’ve made wearing your name a cool thing to do.
For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display.
For not honking your horns. I didn’t hear one car horn in 15 days — which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting.
For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years.
For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy.
For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary.
For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one.
For always saying nice things about the United States…when you know we’re listening.
For sharing Joannie Rochette with us.
For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society.
Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us.
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