Great Moments From The Games: Our Girls Know How To Party
The snowboarders have nothing on our girls, who now carry the “bad boy” image for the Winter Olympics.
They caused a bit of a ruckus, but you can’t fault them for showing how Canadians party.
IOC to investigate Canadian women’s celebration.
After being told of the celebrations by a reporter, Gilbert Felli, the IOC’s executive director of Olympic Games, said, “I don’t think it’s a good promotion of sport values. If they celebrate in the changing room, that’s one thing, but not in public.” Of course, no one would ever see footage or pictures of the women celebrating in the same matter inside the locker room. No, definitely not. It isn’t like it was a huge event for Canada whatsoever. We’d just have to rely on second-hand stories and Zapruder-like footage in years to come when remembering the vivid Canadian celebration in front of their country.
The one sticking point with the IOC was the fact that Marie-Philip Poulin, who’s 18 years old, was part of the celebration and not legally old enough to drink in British Columbia. She doesn’t turn 19, legal age, until next month. OK, fair enough for that. But what sort of punishment would the IOC give to Canada, one its two world powers in the sport? Or is this just a PR case for them to continue to be ahead of the National Football League in keeping the fun out?
To calm down the IOC, Hockey Canada released a statement apologizing for display:
“The members of Team Canada apologize if their on-ice celebrations, after fans had left the building, have offended anyone,” the statement read.
“In the excitement of the moment, the celebration left the confines of our dressing room and shouldn’t have. The team regrets that its gold medal celebration may have caused the IOC or COC any embarrassment.
“Our players and team vow to uphold the values of the Olympics moving forward and view this situation as a learning experience.”
This will blow over like the Miller mask issue once the IOC actually looks at what they’re “investigating” here and understands how ridiculousness they look yet again.
If you’re currently not employed by the IOC and can handle it, the Canadian press has a small gallery of photos of the celebration.
February 28th, 2010 at 11:26 am
We will be able to tell when the world has grown up to adulthood, when stories like this aren’t reported,when Olympic officials say,”this isn’t important”.
The young ladies had every right to celebrate their gold medal, and none of the photos is indicative of anything but youthful giddiness at winning the biggest contest in their lives.
Politicians should be as restrained celebrating an election victory.
As for the one girl who’s only 18, it’s about as big a transgression as jaywalking. This is 2010 Canada, not Victorian era England.
Go out onto Vancouver’s streets during the Olympics and if you head in the right direction (hint: East on Hastings) you’ll probably see people shooting drugs in doorways,or passed out from over consumption of cheap booze.
I wish, instead of “apologizing” the young ladies had posed for one more photo, in which they all had the middle finger raised to the camera in the famous “Trudeau salute”!
February 28th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Why wasn’t the men’s team out there providing the beer?
February 28th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I am outraged…..that I didn’t know Molson Canadian came in magnums!!