Canada's cocky streak in Vancouver is not becoming
CANADA are starting to get cocky here in Vancouver.
PRESUMPTIOUS: There were thousands of celebratory golden cans of Coca-Cola at the Canada Hockey Place - what if they had lost (Getty Images)
Not content with what was their eight gold medal - they decided to distribute thousands more off their own accord following their women ice hockey players triumphing over archrivals USA.
Moments after the clock struck zero at Canada Hockey Place volunteers hurriedly ran around awarding congratulatory Canadian gold Coca-Cola cans to those in the press tribune - a touch presumptuous perhaps? What if it had not gone their way?
I'm pretty certain they wouldn't have rolled out an American equivalent had the USA edged what was a close encounter - Canada had 29 shots to the USA's 28.
For me it's like engraving Manchester United's name on the Carling Cup now ahead of their final with Aston Villa on Sunday.
Were they expecting their women to repeat their heroics of four years ago or did they distribute them to avoid a backlog should their men not repeat the trick?
Looking at the can my bet is on the latter - ‘Congratulations Canadian Olympic ice hockey team on winning gold!' it reads - hardly coherent stuff.
But no-one wants thousands of unopened Coca-Cola cans lying around - especially if they are soon to remind an expectant and passionate hockey nation of failure.
The way Canada demolished Germany and Russia suggests the organisers' risk may well pay off on Sunday but that is no excuse to get cocky, they even began handing them out to public outside the arena after the medal ceremony.
After Slovakia's late flurry will have the USA licking their lips.
I was under the impression Canadians were uniquely polite and gracious with success but their ‘Own the Podium' programme has begged me to differ.
Some might be wondering as a British reporter what I was doing there in the first place - but I'll leave that to BOA chief Andy Hunt and the rest of the 52-strong team to explain - excluding Amy Williams of course.
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We had every right to be cocky!!!
When you break the record for most gold medals ever won at a Winter Olympic games, you have every right to be cocky. Especially, when we win the GOLD in our beloved sport....more than can be said about England and soccer....when have you last won something???? Let me Google it because I wasn't even born yet...
An American complaining
An American complaining about Canadian cockiness and "overdone self-love" is like Charles Manson complaining about violence in hockey.
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You Canadians scream so
You Canadians scream so loudly all the time about how great you are(especially in comparison to your southern neighbour), that everyone stops listening. Stop trying to force it down ewveryone's throats. Relax. You did well at the games. So did the Americans. But they are behaving more graciously than the Canadians. You act like the the youngest child that craves positive attention from the world, and can't wait for others to compliment you so over and over again you compliment yourself. Give someone else a chance to speak!
Re: Not the only one thinking that Canada got too cocky
As a Canadian abroad, I'm also not a fan of the overt nationalism seen in Vancouver either, however this outlook arose through hearing and seeing the zealous, boisterous raa-raa chants by American sports fans and media throughout the last 30 or so years. As such, I find it surprising that an American viewpoint would be against sports nationalism, pretty rich considering that since most US team sports are not really played much abroad, when a rare internatinal soccer [football] or hockey "miracle" occurs, the US decides to make a full length movie over it!
Haven't seen any of the NBC Olympic coverage in the past, but are they still showing exclusively only the activities of the US athletes, or has coverage been expanded to show non-American athletes as well? Seeing the cheering and fans on hand for non-Americans, perhaps this is the source of your current angst.
The media brought this on,
The media brought this on, especially the British. You relize by criticizing Canadians, you're just asking for trouble. As for the Canadian abroad, stay there. you weren't here. Everyone, incuding non-Canadians had a wonderful time and it's about time Canadians showed their pride. By the way, their pride was showing before we started winning all those medals, we're just proud of our athletes and wanted to show it.
Not presumptuous
Did Coca-Cola not also prepare celebtratory golden cans with the US team listed as the winners? I don't think a primary Olympic sponsor like Coke would not have celebtratory cans made for both teams, in one of the most-watched events in the games?
So what's happenned with those now usless 'US Wins Gold' cans?
Hardly like engraving a winner on the Carling Cup, remeber mate this is a can of coke, not a trophy.
And Coca-Cola is an American corporation, hard to see how Canada can be criticised here, but keep trying...
Not the only one thinking that Canada got too cocky
As an American, I HATE it when in past years, we seemed to gloat and tally-up our medals when we were hosting - I remember the 1984 Olympics being the worst. Very unbecoming. I was surprised to see how cocky and overdone self-love was going on in Canada. Towards the end there, it was just over the top... with every Canadian who's ever been on TV (comedians, actors, etc..) was part of the ending ceremonies (even though few of them still live there). It reminded me of Sally Field - Canada was screaming "we like ourselves, we really like ourselves!!" (pst: you're the HOST, not the solo stars!) On another note: kudos to the rockin' German downhill skiers - they rocked.
American complaint about Canadian celebrations
An American complaining about Canadian cockiness and "overdone self-love" is like Charles Manson complaining about violence in hockey.
you know, we you may think
you know, we you may think we're bad hosts. but you just proved our true assessment of Americans. Poor guests in other countries
But we did win....enough
But we did win....enough said....
absurd...
it costs way more to make a tv commercial than it does to make 1000 10 cent tins of pop... and yet every game, olympics or not, has a congratulatory add from McDonalds or Coca-Cola immediately after... this is no different... what if Canadians never won a gold... the add from Visa would have been wasted. They're tins of pop...that does not equal cocky
Who says you can't be polite
Who says you can't be polite and competitive? I guess if my country won only 1 medal I would be a little annoyed too. But hey, don't take it out on Canada. We have lots to be proud of - get used it. Good luck getting your economy out of the toilet! Cheers mates.
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