Oh for a replay of Torvill and Dean. They were sensational in their day.

I've been hearing news that Australia and New Zealand are thinking about putting forward a joint bid for a future Winter Olympics. It would have to be midway through the year, though, in what would be your summer.

I'm assuming the Paralympics will be doing livestreams just like the Olympics (which also means not available to those who can't confirm cable... :/ )?

Probably? The Paralympic youtube channel usually has streams available, but NBC sometimes blocks viewing it in the US until NBC is done covering it.

I think for women's hockey there really are only the two teams ever fighting for the gold -- America and Canada. So it is a loss more than 'winning' a silver. I mean, up here in Canada we were still pretty happy when the Canadian men won the bronze. Obviously, we would have preferred they won the gold . I am a little surprised none of our curlers outside the new mixed team got any medals. But I don't follow the sport myself.

Figure skating is really the main reason I watch and it was a good year for the Canadian skaters but it is weird that the mens division was our weakest link. Historically, it has always been the women. I have to admit, I am starting to not like the direction the new scoring system is moving the sport. Under the new rules I agree that the right person won but the past few years the ladies' division has been super boring. In Canada, one of our commentators was Kurt Browning and he was half-jokingly saying he was going to 'thank' Brian Boitano the next time he saw him for introducing the 'tano' jump (where they jump with their arm(s) over their heads) because when it is overdone it loses its impact. He also argued that women can't hold their arms stiff enough so it looks floppy. Of course, after he pointed it out that was all I could see. I saw an old clip of Katarina Witt and I wish skating could be like that again.