December 18, 2009 | Pics,Sports
As our faithful readers no doubt have guessed, we’re not the most dedicated sports fans in the world. We happen to think that greater feats of athleticism can be found when a gag reflex isn’t triggered on the competitive eating circuit.
One of us was in a bar when this flame happened by, and camera was in tow to document a different special occasion. The fact that thousands of people were lining the streets wasn’t an immediate tip off as it was just initially chalked up to the subway grinding to a halt again.
What was captured was a shill fest worthy of the Sham Wow guy except without the ‘wow’ as a convoy of corporate trucks rolled down Yonge Street generating something called Olympic spirit. This is when sports that are routinely ignored the intervening four years are suddenly given the lion’s share of a newscast’s sports segment and a scant bit of attention.
That most countries on the planet don’t luge, have snow or give two shits about this, the second banana to the real Olympics is not really a surprise. 
Besides, other than hockey and the soon-to-be moribund on account of global warming, skiing/snowboarding, the Winter Olympics features nothing that anyone would really call much of a sport. And whatever that thing is where you cross-country ski and shoot something intermittently, is not a sport but really training for Russian Spetsnaz.
