Olympics' best moment so far

I have argued in a previous blog that the Organizers of these games should not have tried to compete with the glitz of Beijing. First, such self-aggrandizement is at best tasteless, second, we, and everyone from now on, cannot hope to compete with Beijing's 2006 extravaganza on equal terms, and third, we can do things they could not have done in Beijing, like laugh at ourselves.










Very much in the spirit of such self-effacement, Don Taylor, a local sports announcer in BC, opened his show the morning after the celebrations by discussing the faulty hydraulics that prevented one of the big Olympic flame 'logs' from rising from its horizontal to its near vertical position. He said this: `As a man over 45, when the hydraulics didn’t work in the cauldron I felt it was dedicated to me.”

Thank you Don. In my view, Don Taylor, Mike Myers, and Jim Carrey ought to have orchestrated the opening ceremonies.