O Canada

Yesterday was the first good day for Canada in the Beijing Olympic Games. Male duo rowers won silver, the very first medal for Canada in the ninth day of Games. Medium weight female wrestling earned us bronze as well as male swimmer Cochrane in the 1500 m competion earlier today.  (No, Prodigious Phelps was not in that one ^_~) 

But my Canadian favourite certainly is cute and shy female light weight wrestler Carol Hunyh who earned gold yesterday in an undisputable victory against Japanese Chiharu Icho. First golden medalist for Canada in 2008 (and hopefully not last) , Hunyh, 27, was very emotional as the Canadian flag soared above those of her fellows and was even seen mouthing the lyrics to the national anthem. (Which I confess I do not even know by heart in French, so even less in English...^_^;;)  It did tug at my soft Canadian heart. My (quite recent, I must admit) patriotic streak even made me shed a few embarassing tears at hearing our melodious anthem being played in front of the whole world.  



So my favourite olympic moments so far, in this order:

-Georgian and Russian female athletes embracing in the midst of the war tearing apart their countries.
-Carol Hunyh's emotional medal awarding ceremony.
-Fun and childlike U. Bolt who did bolt through an amazing male 100 m sprint earning himself new World Record and a gold medal for Jamaica.  
-Phelps and his amazing domination over the swimming competions, while remaining very down to earth with his 8 gold medals and 7 new world records for Beijing only.