We are Canadian, and we are proud to win

The Olympics have come and gone. (this is my excuse for not blogging in an eternity)  The Olympics exist for people like me.  The Olympics exist for nationalists.
The opening ceremonies drove me a little insane because they kept showing the royal family, and I have issues with the royal family.  Besides that, they were amazing.  30 Mary Poppins flying from the sky to banish Voldemort was kind of amazing.
Canada did not perform up to everyone's expectations, walking away with one gold medal.  The thing is, the Canadian media builds up our athletes so much.  We are convinced that every single Canadian athlete is going to medal, and we're not, we can't.  I still cheer like crazy for the Canadians in every competition of course.
We had a ton of heartbreak these games. So let's focus on the positive.
The Women's soccer team.  Bronze.  First time for that team, Canada's first medal since '36 in a team sport.  I know, we should have been in the gold medal game, thanks Norway I though we were friends. But Bronze,Canada is a country where we celebrate Bronze like it's gold, ex. 2012 Juniors, Joannie Rochette.
Canada earned a lot of Bronze these games.
In Diving, Emilie Heymans winning medals in 4 straight olympics.
Darren Drouin in the high jump, a complete surprise of a medal and our first medal in high jump since '76.
Brent Hayden finally getting his olympic medal, after so many years of disappointment.
Mark Oldershaw, a 3rd generation Olympian, finally brining a medal to his family.

Our Women's gymnastics team placed 5th when we weren't even supposed to make it to the final.
In the end Canada walked away from these games feeling happy.
The love spread by our athletes on twitter was absolutely amazing (and reading Hayley Wickenheiser's tweets for 2 weeks made me so happy)

As a proud Canadian I always feel like a traitor when I cheer for Michael Phelps.  But he is now the most decorated Olympian of all time, which is amazing.
And who can cheer against Usain Bolt?  Triple gold, 2 Olympics in a row.

Someday maybe Canada will be super awesome at the Summer Olympics, until this happens we will always have the Winter.  I love that only Gold will do in the winter and then at the summer Olympics we celebrate top tens and bronze.