Posted on 02/14/2010 9:16:15 PM PST by ScottMerge
Mogulist Alexandre Bilodeau won Canada's first ever gold medal on home soil laying down a near-perfect final run at Cypress Mountain on Sunday.
"I went out and I knew what to do," Bilodeau said immediately following the event.
The 2009 overall World Cup champion executed a back full off the top air and a perfect-scoring back iron cross off the bottom air to earn a score of 26.75.
Dale Begg-Smith, competing for Australia, took the silver medal. American skier Bryon Wilson claimed the bronze medal.
Good for Canada.
Those poor folks deserve some good news for a change. (halfway kidding)
When I read this I thought that couldn’t have been right. Did Canada not win a gold medal at all in the ‘88 Calgary games?
That’s okay...
Glad to hear it. After 3 Olympics and NO gold medals in the previous two, it’s about damn time!
If you get the chance to, watch the Medal Ceremony tomorrow night. When you see Bilodeau get his gold and they play the Canadian National Anthem, step outside.
That sound you’ll hear from the North is an entire country singing, “O Canada”.
Heck...I might be singing, too.
Poor folks! The Canadians have probably more oil than anyone in the world and more clean water. Clean water is a big deal.
Loads of other minerals and a conservative leader who can play piano and sing Beatles songs very very well. He is not a muslim too.
They had a major FU on the luge track though. That post could have at least been padded or something.
Great. Now can they finally shut up about this on NBC?
Yes, but they have to live in Canada.
If we wanted the oil or water, we’d walk up there and take it. The Boy Scouts would lead.
=o)
//sarcasm
To the Canadians credit - they do not elect Muslims to run their country and arguably illegal alien Muslims.
But idiots like Beck, O’Reilly, Boortz, Ingraham, Medved, Hewitt, Coluter (sadly) and a few other idiots would call me a “birther.”
I wasn’t really trying to diss Canadians. I was just trying to be funny. I will diss Olympic atheletes who open their mouths and say idiotic things like that girl Vonn.
That tramp thinks nothing bad sexually ever happens in tribal countries where they walk around naked...
Of course the AIDS rate is Africa is astronomical and many tribal Africans think raping babies is the cure.
Maybe when she grows up she’ll get a brain.
She said that? What an idiot. I am glad I cancelled TV so I am not supporting NBC/MSNBC/CNBC/GE/Universal - one of the scummiest companies in the world.
That was a US athlete, she’ll hopefully grow into some semblance of rational thinking someday.
Padding wouldn’t have helped at those speeds. :-(
Notice how both our anthems start with “O”?
O! say can you see...
Oh, Canada, our home and...
:-D
Good post!
They can call me a birther all they want.
It won’t change the fact that the US is suffering under a phony.
LOL. You are quite welcome here. You did good.
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