http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/feb/15/vancouver-winter-olympics-2010
above is the link to unofficial British idiot, Lawrence Donegan, who is now infamously known for his comment that these Olympics in Vancouver are the "worst games ever."
Now, let's think about this rationally. There are two things that bother me with this comment and it has nothing to do with the fact that I am Canadian. (or does it...)
Firstly, what are the qualifications for someone to actually say that "these are the worst" Olympic Games...? There have been 48 Olympic Games since its inception in 1896, some 114 years ago in Athens. I would imagine that to make such a pompous remark, Lawrence Donegan would have had to have seen most of these 48. Let's just say he saw half of them at 24. That would mean that he would have to have been watching the games critically since 1964.
If I watch 3 Vancouver Canucks games over the course of an 82 game schedule, would anyone care about what opinions I have of the team?
Who does this Lawrence Donegan think he is and how can he be so quick to judge these games when we are 7 days into them?
I hope this is not how people in Britain actually think. Does one media member speak for the rest of their country? Is this how Brits feel about our hosting of the games? Perhaps if it's not, someone should either shut this guy up, or speak out.
I can't wait for the Olympics of 2012, because now the games in Mother England had better live up to our Canadian expectations.
But who am I to criticize? That’s not very Canadian of me now is it.
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