Sick- O

If there's one event I wish that we could beat the Yanks in it's men's half pipe. In Salt Lake, our guy Michalchuk was the favourite going in, but crapped out early. In Torino, we didn't crack the top 10. Watched the qualifiers from HQ today, and the semis and finals from the shack.

Had a huge cheering section at the house sitting watching the action. My compadre, the Pollack, the Quebecois hostess (a musical theatre major and Metis fiddler in the Opening Ceremonies) and full roster of rowdy locals. N'ary a better crew to watch an Olympic half pipe jam.

Basically there were pretty much two words that any one could say.

"Shaun." and "White."

The guy's as dominant as anyone can be in their respective sport, in their heyday. He's got qualities of Wayne, Jordan and Tony Hawk. Look, I won't attempt to explain the mind numbing runs this guy threw down on Cypress today. Let's just say I don't think most of us could put together better runs on our X-box. Just put down the controller and try and comprehend this nonsense.