The Olympic Games are almost over... two more days... and on Sunday we shall enjoy the Closing Ceremonies, which I hope will be as good as the Opening Ceremonies.
There is little sense reporting here about this game and that competition or race, because those of you who care about winter sport will have watched the competitions of your choice and those who do not care don't want to read about it here.
Let me just express my joy at the fabulous performance of "Team Canada", which, I believe has garnered more medals than at any other Olympics before.
Doubtless due to the vociferous support it received from me here in Bleiburg, Austria. Please do not underestimate the dangers involved in cheering for Canada when you sit in the middle of rabid Austrian fans. I watch the games mostly at home on my flat screen TV mounted on the wall in my studio, but I have also cheered the "Maple Leaf" in public.
Besides the serious aspects of the Olympics, if there are any, I am also interested in the appearance of the
"Olympian Exotics".
May I remind you of the Jamaican Bobsled Team, a quartett of Jamaican natives, who had never sat on a sled before, arrived at an Olympic games, I no longer remember which one, got a second hand bob sled from the American team, quick instructions from the Americans and Germans, sat in their contraption and finished the race... dead last, but they finished it. If you want to know a little more about them, watch the movie "Cool Runnings"...
Everbody loved and still loves this Jamaican Quartett.
Then there is always the participant in the downhill, coming from Zimbabwe or Botswana, where they have never seen snow, who in a careful descent comes down the hill taking for a 2 minute winning run, as much as 4 or 5 minutes. But they come down the hill as best they can, if they fall, they pick themselves up and finish the course.
Do I need to remind you of "Eddy the Eagle" the British Ski Jumper
who made history for the shortest jumps ?
This time, in Sotchi, we had a lovely competitor in the Giant Slalom, a lady from Thailand, Vanessa May,
an accomplished star violinist, who finished 50 seconds behind the winner, Tina Maze. Nothing to brag about, but finish she did.
There is also this twit from Germany / Mexico. Hubertus von Hohenlohe. His father, a German Prince, ran the VW or another auto maker's Mexico show. Hubertus was borne in Mexico and by virtue of this accident, Hubert is also a Mexican citizen. He lets himself be nominated to the Winter Olympics Team of this country and was in Sochi the only member of the Mexican team. He will compete in tonights men's Slalom.
Hubertus is 55 years of age and advertises himself as "Photographer, Singer and Ski racer"...
This twit has the audacity to critisize Vanessa May's appearance on the slopes by saying: "It would have been better if she had just sung a tune at the Opening Ceremonies."
Well, it would be much better if this somewhat strange bird from Mexico had become a fashion designer, as he also claims to be, and slid down the slopes of Sochi on his well dressed Hohenlohe behind.
Bertstravels hates blue bloods.
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