Canada Is Golden
March 1st, 2010

If you're a Canadian, chances are you woke up this morning with a huge smile on your face. For the past couple of weeks, the Synergy Marketing Consultants Blog has visited topics surrounding the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia and Canada's performance at this incredible event.

Coming off of its last time hosting the Winter Olympics in 1988 in Calgary, Albera, the nation had huge expectations. Securing just a measly five medals that year with no golds at all, Canada was determined to have its best showing ever. And our Canadian Olympians most certainly did not disappoint. Of course, not all events went perfectly for our athletes. Speed skating favourite Jeremy Wotherspoon, for example, missed the podium.

But at the close of the 2010 Winter Games, the host nation of Canada sat atop the gold medal mountain with a record 14. That is the most gold medals of any country in the history of the Winter Olympics. And the Games could not have been capped off any better!

Without exaggeration, nearly the entire nation tuned in to see the final medal of the Olympics handed out. That, of course, being for men's hockey, as the gold medal game featured arch rivals Canada and the United States. An intensely thrilling game, Canada took a 2-1 lead into the third period only to have the U.S. score in the dying seconds to take the game into overtime.

And as the world knows by now, 22-year old native of Nova Scotia and captain of the current Stanley Cup Champions, the Pittsburgh Penguins, Sidney Crosby came through with the golden goal. Up there as one of the most important goals in the nation's history, Crosby and the rest of Canada's men's hockey team brought the nation its record-setting 14th gold medal, capping off an amazing Winter Games.

What good time it is to be Canadian! Huge parties erupted all over the country in celebration of Team Canada's victory on ice, in addition to the overall acheivements of the country's athletes.

Today, in fact, we learned of yet another Canadian victory. Laura Payton of the QMI Agency reported on The Toronto Sun's website that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is owed a case of Molson Canadian beer by United States President, Barack Obama. The two had bet a case of beer on the outcome of the Olympic men's hockey final. You would think the president would know better than to do that!

As Payton explains, “If the U.S. had won, Harper would have owed Obama a case of Yuengling beer.” Both beer brands are symbolic of the cultures of the respective countries. All we can say is “drink up Prime Minister” and congratulations to all of the Canadian athletes who competed at this year's Winter Games.

Be proud Canada. We have proven to the world our championship qualities. They are, indeed, golden.