Canada gave a spectacular show to open the Olympics. It was a fantastic showcase of Canadian talent. Shania Twain and Celine Dion were missed, but I am with the organizers for giving British Columbians the priority. Sarah McLachlan, Bryan Adams and Nelly Furtado all did well. But why Steve Nash? He's got nothing to do with Winter Sports to be selected as one of the torch bearers to light the cauldron. Marc Gagnon, Gaétan Boucher or Gordie Howe could have been selected. My favourite moments were 'Canadian Spring' with fiddler and tap dancers performing, k.d. lang singing Leonard Cohen's hallelujah and Rick Hansen bringing the Olympic torch to the stadium in his wheel chair.
Flawless show came to a embarrassing finish due to a technical glitch preventing one of the 4 torch pillar coming of of the ground. Too bad it was Catriona Le May Doan who couldn't use her torch light the cauldron. Sure, mistakes can happen anywhere, but for a $40 million dollar show it's inexcusable. How can your blame Nodar Kumaritashvili for his mistake in getting killed. Truth is both these could have been prevented with little more vigilance.
PS: Nancy Green mentioned later that their torches had left fuel for only about 20 seconds more when they walked off after lighting the cauldron. After traveling 45,000 kms (longest in Olympic history!) using 12,000 torches, what an embarrassment it would have been if their torches went off before lighting the cauldron in front of billions of viewers all over the World.
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