"Tori" no Olympics

I'm sure most of you will remember Canada's very disappointing showing at the last summer Olympics in Athens. I think we might have only gotten about 12 medals in the whole 3 weeks of competition. But the tables have turned, it's snow season, Canada season... and we're doing pretty good in Italy so far (knock knock.)

On the other hand, the Japan team which came in fifth in medal standings at Athens currently has a medal count of zero. It's in all the headlines in the papers, and on the news every night.

In the opening week the Olympics were on every night at 7pm and then again live from 10pm with big hype commentation for each of the some 100 plus athletes representing Japan. However when I went to watch last night, there was nothing on. Instead it was team Japan Soccer, and an hour long special presentation about bird olympics.

You see, in Japanese "tori" means bird and "no" can mean "of," so "Olympics of the birds." The show featured pet owners who had trained their birds to do certain olympic maneuvers such as flips, skating, curling etc. I'm sorry I don't have a video clip to go with. So please cheer for Japan a little if you can so that I can watch regular Olympics again.