This is not a hockey blog, and we cats are definitely boycotting the Vladimir Putin Olympics — but we've heard something wonderful through the grapevine, and we just have to don our Cheshire cat grins about it.
Vlad Pootie's men's hockey team has been flayed by the Finns, losing 3-1 today in what's being called a "humiliating ending" to their 2014 games. Hooray!
You know, even with the knowledge that many a fascist has been associated with the Olympics over the years (Juan Antonio Samaranch and Avery Brundage come to mind), it's always interesting to see an authoritarian try to politicize things when they host. Because they usually get surprised.
Aryan supremacist Adolf Hitler was proven wrong by Jesse Owens in 1936. And now Pootie has been bedeviled not only by the warm Sochi weather, the violence in Kiev, his abuse of Pussy Riot, ad nauseum — but, today, thanks to the small country that the USSR attacked in 1939, his precious men's hockey team bit the dust. Revenge is sweet.
Our humble opinion: Democracies that host the games often do a much better job of winning there. Squaw Valley in 1960 and Lake Placid in 1980 are good examples of US-sited Olympics in which Americans excelled. And because we cats are extremely fair, we must acknowledge that Stephen Harper — of whom we are not fans — has found success with Own The Podium. In Vancouver four years ago, Canada finished with 26 medals — the most won by a host country since 2002.
Now, that probably has nothing to do with anything, but we'll take it. As long we can box Vlad Pootie's ears and say, "Nanny nanny boo-boo on you, you creepy totalitarian homophobe," we're happy. We cats PURR.
(IMAGE: Bummed-out Russian fans with lots of sorrows to drown. Break out the vodka! Photo by Reuters.)
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