It’s hard to believe that the Olympics start today. I live in Vancouver.  These are our games. We’ve been hearing about the Olympics, pretty much non-stop, for seven years. In and around Vancouver the games are everywhere you look.  They are in the signs that tell me the new highway is complete, and in commercials […]

Of course I went to the Olympics! It was so close, and when will it be in our ‘back yard’ again? When a friend asked if we were planning to attend the Vancouver Olympic Games, I heard my husband respond: “I am staying as far away as possible from those crowds”. His comment got me […]

A couple of weeks ago I was right in the middle of downtown Vancouver when Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal in the men’s hockey final at the 2010 Olympics.  The roar that came up from the crowd was incredible.  Walking down the street people were laughing and cheering and waving flags.  Perfect strangers were […]

Profile on: Allyson Felix, Olympian runner in the 200-meter race in 2004 Olympic games in Athens, Greece.

Profile on: Penny McCoy, youngest person named to the US National Ski Team, bronze medal winner at the World Championships in Chile Where other people saw only snow, Dave McCoy saw possibility. After the hydrographer’s research showed that Central California’s Mammoth Mountain had more snow than any other in the area, in 1953 he bought […]

With the Olympics coming to town, one cannot help but be aware of the concern over the homeless population.  It has been a topic front and center since we first learned that Vancouver would be holding the 2010 games.  In 2006, CTV was already reporting that the homeless population in the city may have tripled, […]

Kelly Clark, a member of the US Olympic Women’s Snowboarding team, knows a lot about pressure.  The gold medalist from the 2002 Olympic Winter games, a bad landing kept her out of the medals in 2006.  This year she’s in Vancouver looking to add another medal to her collection. Being an Olympian comes with a […]

It takes a lifetime of focus, practice, effort and dedication to take an athlete to the Olympic games.  In this clip Canadian Olympic speed skater Cindy Klassen talks about the sacrifices it takes to make it to the games. She says, “Putting everything into sport means you can’t do everything else.” Watch the video: It […]

For Canadian bobsledder Lyndon Rush, there’s room for a little faith at the top of a bobsled run.   Hurtling down a course at speeds of up to 80 miles an hour takes faith – in your teammates, in your own skill and for Lyndon, faith in God too.  As Lyndon says in the video, “You […]

Cindy Klassen sounds like a champion. Asked how she stay focused, she replied “When I’m going through the hard times I always believe that I can do it.” As a member of the Canadian Olympic Women’s  Speed Skating Team Cindy won gold at the 2006 games in Turin.  She won five medals in total over […]