How We Treat our Heroes, eh?
Seven years ago, our country encouraged us to "Believe". It was the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 and believe was our rallying cry. We were going to own the podium and all we had to do was believe. It brought our country together and we did believe and it was amazing. Then, as good Canadians, we then wondered if we were putting too much pressure on our athletes and wondered if we were going to jinx them and we would never get a gold. It turns out we had nothing to worry about. Our first gold medal came on the first day of competition. As a nation, we cheered Alexandre Bilodeau, and then we found out about one of his heroes, who was there for him at the finish line, his brother. We became more proud and felt there could not have been a more worthy athlete winning the first gold medal. Then, for the next two weeks, I, and many other Canadians, spent the whole time crying while watching tv. They were tears of pride because I believed !! ...