Montreal New Years Eve 2010 :: the Blog

To continue on the Vancouver Olympics hotties topic, I was watching the first hockey game of Canada’a women team, when they beat the Slovak women’s hockey outfit by 18 to nil. The score is impressive and the Canadian women played amazingly, but to me, the true star of the game was the Slovak goalie Zuzana Tomcikova. She was simply spectacular; it seemed at moments that she was playing alone against the Canadian team. Tomcikova received a total of 67 shots, and some of her saves were brilliant. But what was even more impressive was her sports-woman-ship-spirit: she just never gave up and played with all her heart. And you could see the intensity in her eyes, peering from behind her goalie’s mask.

Today I wanted to know more about the eyes behind the mask, so I looked Tomcikova on the web. There is not much info on her, but I guess that’s normal, she still has her whole hockey career in front of her. The results are bellow. But one thing is for sure, for me, a new hockey star/hottie is born.

Just forget about Montreal for a second. All the action will be in Vancouver today. The Olympics are probably my favorite international events. There is nothing like watching a bunch of extraordinary human beings, pushing themselves to their absolute limits, and fulfilling a dream for which they have dedicated most of their lives in intensive training. I can barely keep up a basic task like waking-up and going to work, whereas these people train professionally since their childhood. That alone deserves a ton of respect.

To top it all, these Olympians, these best-of-the-best, are also hotties. As if being amazing in a sport and kicking everyone’s ass in it wasn’t enough. For example, check out Lindsey Vonn, a skier for the US team.

It turns out that, other, smarter minds of the web, had already discovered this “Olympic hottie” effect and published much better articles than mine. So here it is, the link for Olympics beauties. So let the games begin and may the best woman and man win.

And here is snowboarder Torah Bright:

I was reading through the Mirror, le Voir and tons of sites online to figure out what’s happening in Montreal this week-end, but I can’t find anything interesting to write about (if you do know of a cool event, just post a comment about it). I was banging my head against the wall in desperation and hoping that an interesting topic would pop in my head.

Then a colleague of mine mentioned the Carnival, and I went: “Yes, I am going to Quebec city to party and ski, but that’s only next week end, for the last days of the Winter Carnival, so it’s too early to talk about that”, a innocent and truthful statement, to which the answer was “What Quebec city are you talking about? I was talking about the Rio Carnival” (which I should have understood right away, considering that my colleague is, luckily for him, Brazilian).

And that’s genius.

The Quebec Winter Carnival is always lots of fun. There’s the freezing cold allowing tons of activities like hockey, bobsleigh, skiing and naked snow wrestling. The warm “caribou” served and drank on the street, finally restoring our human dignity and giving us freedom to get intoxicated on the streets. And finally the packed bars and clubs, full with human beings trying to forget the cold.

Or maybe trying to pretend they are in Rio.

Because the Rio Carnival is the real stuff. It’s summer in Rio. It’s full with people in Rio. And all these people want to do for a couple of days is: dance, party and indulge in all sorts of debaucherous activities. They don’t have to worry about freezing to death, so they don’t need the tasty “caribou”. All they have to worry is finding their way back home at the end of the carnival.

I love the Quebec Carnival, I’m going for sure. But I wish I went to Rio.

VS

I think there really is no competition here, Bonhomme des Neiges finishes last (unfortunately for him).