The Ron McLean Fan Club

Over a week into the Olympics and I haven't written a single thing about the games. This doesn't mean I haven't been paying attention. In fact, I have spent many hours glued to the CBC. Yesterday, was no exception.

I thought, I hoped it was going to be Golden Tuesday, as soon as Lori Ann Muenzer advanced to the gold medal cycling match. There was Alexandre Despatie who was in first place going into his springboard final, the baseball team was playing the Cubans for a birth in the gold medal game, and of course, Canada's track and field sweetheart, Perdita Felicien was to run for gold in the 100 m final.

But we all know how that turned out.

I watched it live. A shocking horror of flailing limbs from the one person we thought of all people, would bring athletic glory to Canada. Then, within a twenty minute timespan, not only did Perdita fall, but Despatie missed a dive and the baseball team gave up six runs. Everything came undone.

It had to be a historic hour for Canadian sports and thank God it was Ron McLean at the helm, guiding us in and out of the sports. Although sometimes unpredictable, and frustratingly without a concrete schedule, CBC has impressed me with their programming. McLean did a wonderful job of interviewing Felicien this morning.

She is a class act and I really wanted her to win. But like all true class acts take things in stride, she may be right, it just wasn't her night. Perhaps we'll meet in Beijing. She the 28-year-old gold medal hurdler, and I the 28-year-old journalist reporting for the CBC. Hey, we all have our dreams.

Links: Aaron Wherry writes "Why TV is best served live: CBC brought home the gold, the silver and the gasp" in today's National Post.

Comments

[Rich]

If you have a photo of the newspaper article with the 4 girls on the page wearing t-shirts that say R O N ! I would like to see it. I recall it was published in The Sun a couple years ago when Maclean iced the deal to return to Coach's Corner.

Thank you,

Rich