22 Replies to “Mixed Doubles Gold Prompts Winnipeg Riot”

  3. They missed a huge opportunity for urban renewal,could have burned down the North End and applied for government emergency funding.

  4. North end – 55,240 population
    48% white; 24.6 Indian/Metis; 27.4 % Asian
    Interesting place – fits Trumps definition – at least it did 30 years ago – I’m sure it’s only improved.

  7. Love it. A few winter Olympics ago, we were playing tennis (mixed doubles at that) and another couple were talking about curling. Asked us if we had seen this sport with stones and brooms and were trying to describe it to us. My husband said ‘you mean curling?’ They were amazed we had heard of it. Were absolutely fascinated by it. There are a few sheets of ice in Atlanta now and the introduction to curling classes fill up.

  8. I agree, this is funny.
    However, curling does not have the public profile that NFL football has in the US or the NHL has in Canada. The higher the profile the more hooligans it attracts that after a few too many drinks are looking for a way express their inner culture.

  9. Seemed a little aggressive asking the lady to sign the release for the garbage bins. I bet he did something to them and didn’t expect her to check it. Very typical in Winnipeg.

  10. Right you are. I remember the rioting in Saskatoon when the Blue Jays won the World Series. Just an excuse to wreck stuff and act like barbarians. I seriously doubt if even 1% of those morons had ever watched a baseball game and probably couldn’t differentiate between a double play and a double-double.

  11. I would vote to CANCEL the Olympics. The whole exercise has become both too political and too commercial. Add in the misbehaving idiots. Just cancel it and forget the whole thing.

  12. I came for the underwater luge but I stayed for the globalist messaging and chances to see the best of Schitt’s Creek. By the living gods, the worst parts of that show must be beyond the human capacity to imagine.

  13. If you haven’t checked the Curling (doubles) You seriously are missing a sport that Normal People may play… (Not to mention the Russian Eye Candy)….The NFL football players are commenting (Hell they can do this with their REAL wives) Even JJ Watt is thinking…
    Huge upside to participation Sports in the Olympics

  15. “a sport that Normal People may play”
    A few years ago there was a group lobbying to have Bingo implemented as an Olympic sport. Why not? So far this Olympics Canada has won gold medals in 3 eventd that didn’t exist 20 years ago. The IOC has to keep introducing more sports so that there are more hours of television coverage.
    Someone please wake me up when the real Olympic sports begin.

  16. you mean like skateboarding?
    http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-37164307/skateboarding-leaps-into-the-tokyo-2020-olympics
    the IOC is run by sewage grade rot. rot. rot. rot.
    (search jaun antonio samaranch, olympic skating scandal 2002, on and on and on and on . . . . . .)
    and the drugs drugs drugs drugs that went on and on and on and on because athletes were able to sneak clean samples into the
    bathroom or whateverthefcuk.
    on and on and on and on and on . . . . . .. . . .

  17. It’s nothing but a money-making racket for the companies that build the facilities, those who provide the services, and the athletes that win medals, particularly gold.

  18. Actually, it’s not that many athletes that are able to monetize those medals, so to speak. Some glamour athletes will, but a far more go home, put them in the cupboard, and get on with life.
    That being said, there are some countries who do glamorize their medal winners and seriously reward them. Remember Calgary 88 when Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards won everyone’s hearts with his valiant though inept effort. Matti Nykanen from Finland – the gold medalist in both individual events – was especially dismissive of Eddie’s efforts. Then it came out just how heavily he was subsidized by Finland – as I remember, said subsidy included a summer dacha. Finland was really keeping their man in comfort. The former Eastern bloc (Soviet Union and buds) was also noted for generously rewarding medalists. Here in Canada, aside from a few (figure skaters can generally parlay their medals into a decent career), our Olympians – medalists or not – won’t get much monetary recognition.

  19. At least in Canada they can monetize their medals by becoming marijuana or mental illness spokespersons, CBC commentators, or according to Climate Barbie, politicians.

  21. But will they be able to make a living at any of this – aside from being politicans, that is. Nancy Greene Raine is a senator, but she was appointed relatively late in life by PM Harper after a lifetime of working hard to have a decent career.
    The only one I’ve really seen recently lately is Joannie Rochette whose mother died two days before she was to compete in the Vancouver Olympics. It’s a very well done ad on behalf of the Heart and Stroke Foundation (I think), but I doubt Mlle Rochette is making a fortune from it.

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