First off congratulations to the Canadian Team for such an outstanding performance in these Olympic Games despite the countless 4th and 5th place finished and poor wax jobs.
Canada stepped onto the Olympic podium in Turin a total of 24 times. This is a new record in Canadian Winter Olympic history.
With this information on the table I would like to turn the focus to the Canadian podium attire which included a pair of nifty leather gloves. These gloves were worn at all of the medal presentations and when I say worn I would like to highlight the fact that they were not removed during the course of the medal ceremony. Normally in western culture we remove our gloves when shaking someone's hand. This was not the case for the majority of the Canadian athletes who had the honor of receiving medals from some of the top officials in their respective sports including various senior IOC members and sport federation presidents. How can this blatant sign of disrespect have gone unnoticed by the media and team officials alike. Am I missing something!?
5 comments:
maybe cause it's winter
Well we certainly don't wear gloves in summer....Of course it's because it is winter that we wear gloves, but during winter when we wear gloves we take them off to shake hands!
Canada wasn't the only country doing this.
Thats fine that Canada was not the only country doing this. I didn't notice, but I could definalty be wrong. The point is I made an observation and that is that. They did it, I commented on the fact that I noticed it and frankly was not looking for a comment from anyone on the subject, just sharing my observations.
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