A Look Back at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver

The games in Vancouver were a great spectacle. It did start a little shaky with the death of an athlete and a malfunction in the lighting of the torch. It soon got over it, though, and started to hand out some medals.

Short Track was the fun one to watch for me. Apolo Anton Ohno won a Silver and two Bronze medals in these games with a total of 8 medals in his career which is the most by any US Winter Olympian. It also seemed liked the Koreans owned the sport for the most part. They seemed to be in everything and took 8 total medals in the sport, 2 of which were gold. No gold in short track for the USA.

There were some touching stories like Joannie Rochette winning bronze in the Ladies Free Skate for Canada after the death of her mom. It was a great story of perseverance through tragedy. There was also Lindsey Vonn who won a Gold Medal and a Bronze after the media questioned that she wouldn't be able to compete because of an injury. Then of Course the 'Night Train' getting gold for the USA in Four man Bobsleigh, their first gold in Bobsleigh in 62 years.

Canada went into these games with the mindset of "owning the podium." Though the USA had the most Medals with 37, Canada had the most gold Medals with 14 and was third in the overall medal count with 26. The USA was tied for third in the gold medal count with Norway at 9 Gold Medals. To me Canada owned this Olympiad. It's not about the most medals but the most GOLD Medals.

So now we look ahead to the next Olympic Games in London. Who here thinks they should light the torches on top of the London Bridge? They could so do it.

P.S. Yes. I would rather have the most gold medals than the most medals overall. It means your country won more events. Runner up means nothing to me really. That's right, Colts, it means nothing.