Congratulations Vancouver - 2010 Games the all-time No. 1

in drinking. Be proud. I'd be.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1968544,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct
A pretty good read.
London. You've got your work cut out for you.

 

nothing in that story surprises me.
that same story could come out of any Grey Cup week, with the exception of game's played in Toronto.

 

I'm kind of proud of this line

These are the fourth Olympics I've covered, and Vancouver drinks Athens, Torino and Beijing under the table.

But geeze, suck it up buttercup.

 

I wonder if it was the reporter's first time in Canada. Kind of sounds like it. He sounds shell shocked. Canadians like to have a good time and when we do we want everyone, even strangers on the train, to have fun too.

 

As someone once posted, "Even the Irish think the Canadians are drunks".

 

Drinking Tokyo and Beijing under the table is no great shakes. But I was at the Sydney Games, and if Vancouver beat them, then THAT'S an historic accomplishment.

 

PS: That's Torino, not Tokyo. Sorry for the typo.

 

If you are drunk, and you want BTExpress to have a good time, stay as far away from BTExpress as you can.

 

You must not have visited Sestriere when you were in Torino.

 

I take a lot of pride in that column.

"It's been a two-week tailgate," she said. "I've covered a lot of college football, and this is like the Dante's Inferno version of tailgating."

When I asked a reveler if there was too much public intoxication in Vancouver, he responded, "There should be more."

Fuck yeah!

My best drinking days are behind me, and I'm several thousand miles away from Vancouver, but I would love to have gotten hammered there at any time in the past three weeks.

Go Canada Go, indeed!! ;D

 

So the Canadians outdrink the Salt Lake Mormons and Chinese? Not sure why that guy sounds surprised.

That piece is quite consistent with my experience around Canadians. Nice folk, but goddamn do they ever like their beer. Combine the beer-swilling culture with the biggest sporting event on Canadian soil in decades and that's exactly the environment I'd expect there.