Gold Medals, Beer, Champagne, Cigars, Condoms
Somehow, the following doesn’t meet my image of an Olympic Athlete: Drinking beer, champagne, and smoking cigars celebrating a win in plain view. I don’t know what was the message here…
Canada’s top Olympic official sees no reason to put a damper on the women’s hockey team’s beer-swigging, cigar-smoking celebration of its gold-medal victory over the U.S. team.
In Whistler and Vancouver, Olympic sentiment largely supported the players who went back onto the ice for an impromptu party well after the fans had left Canada Hockey Place on Thursday.
While the players spent much of Friday apologizing for their exuberance, several top Olympic officials praised the Canadians’ third straight gold-medal run, even while encouraging them to be a bit more discreet next time.
“As far as we’re concerned, the matter is closed,” said Michael Chambers, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee. “It was nothing more than an error of judgment committed at the exciting time of winning a gold medal. It was a spilling out of the celebration that was going on in the dressing room.”
Maybe so, but to me this totally makes me wonder why the Olympic committee can be so strict with drugs and even something as simple over the counter allergy medicines, and condone this? Why have drug testing if drinking beer, champagne, and cigars is OK? I realize their Olympic run was over, but to me this is a confusing message to young people.
And, as if anymore proof is needed that a wild Olympic atmosphere permeates B.C.’s largest city, now there’s an apparent condom shortage.That’s right. As you read this, an emergency shipment of condoms is desperately making its way across Canada to the West Coast city.Health officials in Vancouver have already provided 100,000 free condoms to the roughly 7,000 ahtletes and officials at the Games. That’s about 14 condoms per person. But as of Wednesday, those supplies started running dangerously low.
