Automatic for the People

So here's my automatic Olympic update! Moments ago the Olympic Hockey Gold went to Canada. Sydney Crosby scored the winning goal in overtime. A great Olympics comes to an end. Canada was a great host in Vancouver and they got the gold medals that were most important to them. But Team U.S.A had some great triumphs too. They won the most medals overall, setting a new record. Apolo got his 8th medal. The 4-man bobsledders rocked the sliding center to win gold. Both Lindsey Vonn and Bode Miller finally got their golds. The snowboarders owned many of their events again. Shani Davis repeated his gold in long track. And Chad Hedrick led the men's pursuit team to silver. Evan Lysacek took gold in men's figure skating just edging out the formidable Yevgeny Pleshenko. Our women skaters fell short, but it was South Korea's Kim Yu-Na's year. The amazing Joannie Rochette from Canada took the bronze just days after losing her mom suddenly. So many great moments in these games. It started off in tragedy with Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian luger, dying after a major accident in practice just hours before the Opening Ceremony.

But now the Closing Ceremony is at hand. And time for life to go back to normal for most of the Olympians who will not have a stage this big for another four years.

For me, it's time to reboot and get back up to speed with work. But for now I, like Jemma seen above, will sit down and relax for a while.