Will you marry me Sidney Crosby?

What an epic goal! That goal will go down in the history of Canada. 20 years from now elementary social studies students will be taught that from their text books. They will be quizzed on it. They will know that in the overtime of the gold medal game Iginla passed to Crosby who scored the game winning goal. Making each and ever single Canadian extremely proud and prompted hundreds of parties from coast to coast in this great land of ours.

I could go into detail about how they lost a 2 - 0 lead and let the opposing team tie it up 30 seconds before the game was over but it doesn't matter now because we are the champions. DOUBLE GOLD in hockey. Both men's and women's teams did us proud.

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In fact every single athlete at this game represented Canada with grace and dignity. We are Canadians and for 17 days we let loose and we showed our patriotism. We partied. We drank beer and smoked cigars. We filled the streets of our city while proudly displaying our maple leaf. We are not the same. Things like this change a country. Now we have so many more reasons to be proud. To brag. We are no longer Americas hat. We are Canada and we are strong.

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This has all got me thinking though about the cultural influence the USA has on us here in Canada. I've been contemplating taking a look at the culture by 'fasting' from all american media in an effort to draw attention to the great Canadian talent we have in this country. Be it music, tv shows, movies etc. I will go for a month USA free and see what happens.

TRUE NORTH STRONG AND FREE!

Wonderful Women's Wednesday!

Gold Women's 2 Man Bobsleigh

Silver Women's 2 Man Bobsleigh

Silver Women's short track 3000m Relay

Bronze Women's 5000m Long Track Speed Skating!

My favourite team though were the two ladies who won silver in the 2 man bobsleigh Helen Upperton and Shelly-Ann Brown. They were just a pleasure to watch!

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Canada may not be 'owning the podium' but we have as many gold medals as any other country. We have strong chances of owning the gold medal position at these Olympics!!

This is one of my favourite quotes of the games so far. It's from Shelly-Ann Brown."I can't even express the amount of jubilation that I'm feeling right now. I'm so proud to be Canadian, I'm so, so thankful for everybody and grateful to everybody...Thank you Canada, this is yours. Thank you."

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To top it all off we beat the Russians in hockey ... we didn't just beat them we slaughtered them.

Joannie Rochette is a trooper

Well Rochette just finished her first skate of these Olympics and as soon as the music stopped the tears started. The look on her face was enough to make anyones heart break for her and her family. She decided to skate despite the recent passing of her mother and that was a good call. She would have regretted it had she not skated. Plus this gives us an opportunity to as Canadians to support one of our own. Every single Canadian is behind Joannie Rochette.

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The men's hockey team defeated Germany easily. So that was nice. The only thing that I would have done better is I would have given Nash his penalty shot rather than giving it to Crosby. Seriously Nash deserved it way more.

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Gold for Ashleigh McIvor in Ski-Cross. Yay!!! It was a good race!

It was nice to see all three medalists so happy and friendly with one anouther.