Vancouver Olympics ended with Sidney Crosby’s goal

It was fine in a year Monday before the Vancouver Olympics is Sydney Crosby finished with purpose and joy in the streets of Vancouver with a riot.

Manfred Oettl Reyes, 16 said, “It’s all so big and I’m so small.” He met a piece of Peru was the Alpine skier. Say it again, louder. This is all great, and I am so small.

And that, in a sense, sums up the 2010 Winter Olympics. It's an elephantine effort, a great work, was a wonder. And that means, precisely, to Vancouver, Canada to the world, to wrestle with is not so easy. If you were through, you found something. You felt something new.

But this time, everyone was through her​​. This amount, accounting - this will later increase. Accountant of a PIN number to dance on the head, but we will know the financial cost.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said, “It will be part of the Games. Just like what happened in Munich is part of the Games. What happened in Atlanta is part of the Games.”

Winter Olympic in a place that is large part, can in short sleeves were. This is a game where some of us to try to increase their member, and then we kind of were.

And this was a moment where he began to change myself Canadian. flag is worn as capes, face paint maple leaves, red and white riots good feelings - in this country felt like something new.

Vancouver Organizing Committee CEO John Furlong said, “What’s happened, for me, is all of these things together have caused a different kind of patriotism to break out here, and it’s beautiful to look at, and that as a whole for me is the prize. There has been a euphoria here, and a change. Something has happened, and it’s not just in Vancouver, it’s all over the country.

I think the country has taken a different position around these Games. They have not been spectators, they have lived every moment with us. And I think that is something that we can be proud of. I’m not sure how you describe that in a banner headline, but I’d like to think that this has been a great human occasion for the country.”

Some said this is a new Canadian patriotism, and perhaps he was part of it. Games definitely brought an amazing scale, humanity is happy crowd in Vancouver streets flood, the hours in line for something that had to do with Olympic experience for millions of people across Country huddled around their TV like they were prehistoric fire.

They were about how Brian Burke this two-hour flight from Indiana to house dead son Brandon kept his hand on his chest, buried her boy and then came the Olympics and to cry a little less every day Tried.

And yet somehow be left out and they held it all inside and then his whole damned life, the best damned strong short program skated,. And was second on his face crumpled, and this was raw grief and speed camera when Zoomed in, almost round to see you, because it was very much wanted.

But you can not. Because what he did there was not more beautiful. He just under three minutes, humanity was in saturation.

Olympic Games and he did it, much as any Olympic Games, was about, the human spirit ignited, enduring human spirit being, and sometimes, out of the human spirit snuffed, leaving Is still very early. Rochette said, “I guess I inspired a lot of people, but … “