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I am pooped. What’s more, I risk permanent damage to my already failing eyesight if I watch another event. Never mind the irony that my addictive interest in watching healthy people compete is making me unhealthy. Frankly, I deserve a gold medal — not just for watching so many events but for writing so many… Read more.
I noted in “Diplomatic Brinkmanship Upstages the Opening Ceremony“ on February 9 that supervening events might limit my commentary on Olympic events. That has been the case, most notably last week with the Parkland mass shooting and the resignation of South African President Jacob Zuma, and this week with the death of Billy Graham and the… Read more.
Four years ago, I jokingly claimed to deserve a gold medal for the exhausting marathon of watching and writing about London 2012 — over 150 hours of viewing and 14 consecutive days of commentary. That was when my younger self had better eyesight. Therefore, it’s clearly foolhardy that I did the same this year, despite… Read more.
It would be remiss of me to begin commenting on the Closing Ceremony without first acknowledging that Canada triumphed today in the last event of these Games, Men’s Hockey. By defeating Sweden (3-0), it repeated its Vancouver feat of winning gold in Women’s and Men’s Hockey, affirming my claim that, when it comes to Hockey,… Read more.
