My Olympics
Photo from the Vancouver Sun The 2010 Winter Olympics are for the most part over. The medals are all but won and the memories are both wonderful and provocative. An Olympic event that had the amazing come from behind wins the front runners losses and performance over immeasurable personal tragedy. In 1988 I worked for the CTV host network at the broadcast center and even though I was not even close to any of the action and normally got to work and left for home long before and after the daily action I still found the air in Calgary rarefied with the excitement of the Olympic Games. The office from which I was working had no fewer than 20 TV sets on the wall all showing the grand spectacle this visual overload along with my general disinterest in sports led to a very blase attitude toward the games yet I could feel the spirit of those games when walking down the street, when going into the walking mall downtown and seeing these people from all over the world here for this unifying expe...