As usual I haven't been following too closely the Olympic hoopla going on in Athens other than the fact that Google keeps running Olympic themed titles on it's home page. (Quite cute actually) But I was browsing through the sports page at work today and I noticed that Canada is not doing too well in the medal standings. We're way down at #32 in this list behind Belarus! I was almost in Belarus once. It's a little ex Soviet Union country next to eastern Poland. I stood on the border in Teraspol, Poland and looked into Belarus and watched people from that country cross over into Poland to stand in the town square for the whole day to try and sell a bottle of Vodka or a pack of cigarettes they somehow managed to get their hands on. The border guards were not happy with us when we started video taping the border crossing. They started waving us off with their Kalashnikov rifles. This is the country that has more medals than us?! I can understand being behind the US and Russia and China and, okay, maybe even Australia, but Belarus? Well, I guess it's not so much about how many medals we get but how we are one with the global community spreading fellowship and understanding to the other members of the human race and all that other good PC stuff. So why is it that the first thing I did was to check how many medals do we have and why are we behind Belarus???
On another Olympic note, I found it a bit amusing that one commentator pointed out that the beach vollyball event was the closest to the attire of the original Olympics. In ancient Greece, if you recall, they did the games nekkid!

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