Poem 300: 2026 Winter Olympics

My wife and I watched all the events during the Olympic games

Took in all the sports they played and even remembered all their names

From February sixth to twenty third we checked in every day

Viewed every men’s and women’s hockey game, what more can we say?

Our team won twenty one medals, nine bronze, seven silver and five gold

The athlete’s pool is pretty shallow is the story being told

More core funding is required and our Government has denied this request

If they want to attract more athletes, this situation has to be addressed

Speed skating accounted for almost half taking in ten medals in all

They never cease to amaze us as they always take in a haul

Freestyle skiing matched speed skating by taking in two gold out of their total of five

Watching all the participant’s performances I’m just happy to see them all survive!

It was so befitting that our dance couple picked up the bronze after the event was done

They were retiring after these Olympics and it was the first medal that they won

Snowboarding got us a silver in the men’s snowboard cross race

He lost by a tiebreaker that kept him out of first place

In curling there was a heated exchange between Canada and Sweden in the ninth end

Our men’s team was accused of cheating and used some colourful language to defend

It was captured on live tv and everybody heard

Even though the team was from Sweden he understood these words

Canada was issued a warning and had to tow the line

Our  men’s team picked up the gold days later so everything turned out fine

They later accused our ladies team of the same offense

Our women won the bronze so I won’t keep you in suspense

In the game of hockey, we picked up two silver for coming in second place

We cannot blame the amateurs because these athletes are professionals in this case

Both our women and men lost in overtime and both came up short

It came as a major blow to us “Canadians” losing in our “national sport”

The Americans were the victors of both gold in this case

Some “Canucks” are not happy and consider it a disgrace

The sport that we invented is being played worldwide

It shouldn’t even affect our sense of “Canadian” pride

The times that other nations win is few and far between

“Trump” has already divided their national teams as everyone has seen       

“Canada” and “America” have a “heated rivalry” as we all know

Hockey was made in “Canada” as well as that much talked about show

So don’t take it so hard that we didn’t take the crown

You should be smiling instead of wearing a frown

Obviously other countries are envious of us as a nation

Don’t be so discouraged, enjoy the celebration