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Athletics aside, I want the Canadians to win gold all the time because Canada has the best national anthem. Not only is is a great song, but the whole crowd sings it loudly all through the ceremony. It's actually kind of moving.

So Yevgeny Plushenko acted like an arrogant jerk when he only finished second in the figure skating? To quote Iago from Disney's Aladdin, "Now there's a big surprise! I think I'm going to have a heart attack and die from this surprise." Arrogant jerk is hardwired into the guy's system. We kind of excused it when he was 15 because, well, he was a 15 year-old boy and what did you expect? Now it's both annoying and kind of sweet that he's kept his boyhood personality all the way into young adulthood.

The problem is that his skating hasn't evolved much since then either. He doesn't like the scoring system, but his outrage is obviously manufactured because he was complaining about it even before the competition. The current scoring system has been in place for several years and just because he didn't compete at all during that time and get used to it doesn't give him any special privileges. It just makes him a whiner. He happened to start competing at a time where the scoring was perfectly suited to him. In the periods before and after, not so much. I myself also enjoy having the comfort of having a built-in excuse, but that's still all it is.

How happy do you think Julia Mancuso was that Lindsey Vonn didn't place in the super-duper combined skiing thing yesterday? She actually got interviewed! That poor girl had to wear a tiara to the medal ceremony to get noticed the day before. The media's fixation on Vonn does nobody any favors.

I am a big curling fan. I've only played that game not on the ice, where it's called either bocce or shuffleboard, depending on the variation. But I love watching it, especially the way the people move around on one shoe that grips the ice and one that slides.