Today was the official opening of the Winter Olympics here in Vancouver.  The craziness that everyone expected to see I didn’t experience, everyone was in great spirits with people talking to strangers, taking pictures of just about everyone & everyone and generally having fun.  The public transport was kind of crazy but not in a bad way.

The office went out to see the Torch Relay and as you can see by the photo’s below the children were absolutely loving it, shouting and singing their heads off, that was in Burnaby.  I was then quite surprised to see the Torch Relay a second time when I was going through Broadway/Commercial Skytrain Station.

There was some controversy from the Russian team where an athlete was investigated for a doping breach (source: CTV).  Also, very sadly a Georgian athlete died while training (source: The Guardian), but despite that the team did bravely attend the opening ceremonies, and there was a 1 minute silence in his honour.

Despite the technical error the opening ceremony was good (although I think the British will do better!) and I learnt something interesting – The British are good at Curling.  Well, I had never knew the British were into that at all, personally I find it quite an odd sport but evidently there is a British Curling organisation – who would have thought!

Also some great news today, Vancouver is the first city to host an Olympics that has an LGBT Pride House, learn more about it at Xtra.