Winter Olympics 2010

Not surprisingly, everywhere we go at the moment we are seeing and hearing the latest news from the Olympics. The gas (petrol) stations have a tally of the number of medals Canada has won thus far displayed outside the forecourt, cars have miniature Canadian flags attached to the windows and blowing in the breeze, the TV has wall-to-wall coverage and Olympic fever has well and truly taken hold.

The opening ceremony was impressive and clearly there has been a lot of time and effort invested in the Winter Games. There were concerns that there would not be enough snow as the temperatures have been more like Spring than Winter but, having managed to helicopter in truck loads of the stuff(!), all is good on Cypress Mountain where some of the events are taking place and at Whistler it is full steam ahead!

GB won their first (and only) medal yesterday - it was an individual Gold (not been done for over 30 years so quite an achievement), won by Amy Williams in the Skeleton event, way to go Amy!

Canada continue to add to their tally and we wish them well - Go Canada!!!!