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Originally Posted by Calgarian
Good start to the hockey tournaments!
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Canadian men's hockey team look to have their work cut out for them now.
Could be worse, Canadian women's curling team has kinda $#!+ the bed so far.
...So i haven't been watching the Olympics on TSN or CBC, I was really turned off by the commentary by CBC correspondents during the opening ceremonies.
So now i'm watching on NBC and really enjoying, way more professional, they have interesting segments and commentary especially with figure skating, luge/skeleton and skiing & snowboarding.
Even though they are more biased on profiling American athletes, you still get to see the prominent Canadian athletes if they amount to getting close to making medals.
I'm surprised to see some Canadian athletes specifically featured prominently in segments and US advertisements.
Regina's snowboarding phenom,
Mark McMorris, was spotlighted on NBC during slope-style, he talked about his crash 10 months ago and his recovery and he has now since medaled in two Olympics officially now.
Mark is featured in commercial for US Visa & seen in high rotation.
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Canada has probably been featuring a lot of athletes in Canada too i'd imagine.
I've seen Mark McMorris on Cheerios cereal boxes, also have seen Virtue & Moir, Mikaël Kingsbury, Charles Hamelin on Cheerios...