Olympic Retort

Highlights from the first few days of competition in Torino:

-PA announcer at women's moguls inadvertently refers to gold medalist Jennifer Heil of Spruce Grove, Alberta as "representing the United States of America". Of course, one needed to have the TV turned up pretty loud to hear it, so mouth-breathing nationalists should take a deep one. Don may need to put up the gaffe-o-meter for the next couple of weeks. It could have been worse - someone may have referred to her as a resident of Stony Plain*.

-Baseball gets kicked out of the Olympic program because the IOC believes that only a handful of countries (Japan, Korea, Cuba, the Dominican Republic., the U.S., Canada, Taiwan) are competitive. Women's hockey has been in since 1998, and only two Canadian and American fingers have ever been competitive.

-Given the results of the Men's Downhill, the U.S. Ski Team will be facing a lot of tough questions about not giving Bode Miller enough to drink.

-Dick Cheney is disqualified from the biathlon.

*That's really funny if you know your small town Alberta geography.