The Olympics is finally over!

After 17 days of Olympic madness in Vancouver, it is finally over. After all of the postponements and the delays in the skiing and the skating events in the first week, the Olympics finally went underway in full throttle. Although the Winter Games had a sad start when Luge racer Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, of Georgia died in a crash during a training run, just hours before the opening ceremony.
There were some records. The United States received 37 medals, which is the most for any country during the Winter Games. Of the 37 medals, 21 of them went towards ski and snowboard athletes. Short track speed skater extraordinaire, Apollo Anton Ohno, won three medals, giving him eight overall which is the most ever by an Olympic Winter Games athlete. Canada won 14 gold medals, most ever by any country in any Games, which the last one was won when the hockey team defeated USA for the gold medal. The USA bobsled team won its first gold medal in 62 years and the US winning four medals in the Nordic combined breaking an 86 year winless streak.
There were some exciting moments that I watched which were Shaun White's flawless gold medal performance in the half pipe that included the Double McTwist 1260, Evan Lysacek's dazzling gold medal performance when he won by a hair against Yevgeny Plushenko in figure skating, Lyndsey Vonn wins gold medal in the Women's Downhill and Canada beating the United States to win the gold medal in hockey.
My favorite controversy was when Canada's women's hockey team celebrated winning the gold medal by drinking beer and smoking cigars on the ice. As stupid and immature as it was, I still thought it was funny.
My biggest beefs were when Plushenko complained about not winning the gold medal, the US not winning a gold medal and Sidney Crosby of Canada scored the game-winning goal in overtime to win the gold medal. First off, Plushenko complained about Lysacek not performing enough jumps. Really? I thought that Lysacek deserved to win gold more than Plushenko anyway. Plushenko has already won a gold medal, so move on and stop being a baby. I am angry that the USA did not win a gold medal because their goaltender, Ryan Miller, did not win a gold medal. He was so ridiculously good that he won the Olympic hockey tournament MVP. It's just not fair that he only won a silver medal when he was the best player in the tournament. When it comes to Crosby scoring, it was almost perfectly scripted for Canada winning the gold medal. Canada won four games in six days starting from Sunday's shocking loss in the preliminary round to the US to win the gold medal, they won the gold medal by beating USA, even though they allowed USA to tie the game at 2 when they scored with 24 seconds remaining in regulation, and the golden boy Crosby scored the game-winning goal in overtime to bring his native home to a hysteric frenzy.
As much as I love sports, it was really annoying watching people who don't watch sports not only watched the Olympics practically 24 hours a day, but they thought they knew more than me about sports in general. I don't watched extreme sports and I don't care to anytime soon. I watched some events when I could, but I couldn't watch every possible event because I have a life. I actually have things to do unlike other people. Now the Olympics will move to London in 2012. I am planning to go to that and I don't care how I do it. I will do anything to go. London in 2012 here I come.