Sunday 26 February, 2006

Not my day

Yeah, we woke up at 5 am to watch Finland lose to Sweden in the Olympics. There is something inherently touching about grown men crying, but they took the loss very graciously. Speaks for itself, really, that the team captain Saku Koivu was selected as an athlete member to the International Olympic Committee by his peers... and I'm really happy too that the team got to go to Finland and receive a hero's welcome despite the loss. (But it was a loss... gold would have been nice.)

After the anticlimax we went back to bed, woke up to a phone call. Whole day has been really gray and I've been really under the weather, feeling weak and lifeless. We watched the closing ceremonies which was mostly very weird with too many clowns (and talk about false finishes), and we saw how the Olympic flag was passed onto Vancouver's mayor Sam Sullivan - Vancouver had prepared a little number too, but it was mostly just confusing. You really need to be in the spirit to watch this stuff I think, but then again I have a think against clowns.

We also decided that it would be cool to still be here when the Olympics get here 2010.

That's actually really big.

Posted by kolibri at 26 February 22:27, 2006
Comments
# 1 - Emokolibri (on February 27, 2006 03:17 AM):

This silver medal remainds me of Linna's great novel "The unknown solder". After the armistice some of the soldiers (Honkajoki?) said: Sosalististen Neuvostotasvaltojen Liitto voitti kilpailun, mutta hyvänä kakkosena pinkoi maaliviivalle pieni ponteva Suomi." Something like: "USSR won the competition, but Finland was a very brave second one." We have learned to face these things.


# 2 - Dragon (on February 27, 2006 08:34 AM):

For a tiny nation with a turbulent past, success in international arenas is soooooooooo important to Finland. Of course Canada, the Promised Land of Ice Hockey, would at the moment give anything to have gotten as far as the final, but finns only feel vindicated when they win. I think it is good for the nation's pscyhe to get at least one gold metal in the major competitions. Pity it did not happen this time.

But to be honest it is a sheer miracle that a nation with 5 million people won ANY medals at all.


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