Do I Feel Sorry For President Putin?
You spent all this money on bringing the Winter Olympic Games to Sochi, so you can laud it over the world and especially when your beloved Russia, win the gold medal in your favourite sport; ice hockey.
But then your team gets knocked out in the quarter finals by the Finns.
I think we should all remember that the Russians don’t have a good record against the Finns in the winter.
I used to play real tennis with a Finn. He was very proud of the part his father had played in halting the Russians. He still had the white cotton ski suit his father had worn, stuffed with straw for warmth. This sentence from the Wikipedia article describes the Finnish resistance.
The Finns used effective guerrilla tactics, taking special advantage of superior skiing skills and snow-white layered clothing and executing many surprise ambushes and raids. By the end of December, the Soviets decided to retreat and transfer resources to more critical fronts.
I suspect there was a lot of celebration in Finland after the ice hockey victory.
The Strange Things You See At Night!
On Sunday night at about nine, as I made my way home on the bus, there was a guy on the vehicle with a complete set of ice hockey gear, including two sticks. He got off at the Lea Valley Ice Centre.
Games must start late!
A Real Heroic Story
Britain are not noted to be great at ice hockey, but they at least qualified for the World Championships in Slovakia.
However, they then found that they couldn’t get there because of the Icelandic volcano. But here in the UK, we’re don’t let a little dust get in our plans, so they took a coach all the way. This is from the BBC.
Great Britain won their opening game in Group B of Division One at ice hockey’s World Championships, beating Croatia.
GB made a 26-hour bus journey to hosts Slovenia after the Icelandic volcanic eruption cancelled their flight, arriving two hours before face-off.
Well done to the team and they showed that we must just get on with it.
Rumour has it, that the team have decided to sleep in the bus!
The Anonymous Widower 