Canada can't find its own Olympics

Because most of you reading this blog are Americans, I'll assume you have no clue where the 2010 Winter Olympics are going to be. They're going to be in Vancouver.

But don't worry my stupid fellow Americans, the Canadians aren't much better than us when posed with the same question.

in June, the federal government commissioned Decima Research to ask this unaided question to Canadians: “Can you please tell me where the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will be held in the year 2010?”

And the results, outside of British Columbia where Vancouver is located, were hilarious.

In Alberta 68% of people knew the answer was Vancouver, in Saskatchewan/Manitoba it was 64%, in Ontario it was 60%, in the Atlantic Provinces it was 50%, and it was an unreal 43% in Quebec.

Needless to say the government wasn't pleased about that and ordered a new report that was just recently done. It showed a slight bump in the numbers, but the fact remains that an awful lot of Eastern Canada seems to have no clue that the 2010 Olympics are happening in their own country.

I guess it could worse. According to a survey done in Taiwan (which I realize is a separate country from China, but China likes to impose its will there), 44% of the Taiwanese have no clue that the 2008 Olympics are happening in China.

And this of course means two important things. One, that there are uninformed people all over the world, not just in America. And two, that China needs to increase the beatings in Taiwan.

-WCK

Time to show the world who's boss

Many of you may not be familiar with the International Federation of American Football and its World Cup. I mean let's be honest, why would you be familiar with it? It's only been around since 1999 (Japan is the two-time defending champion) and the U.S. has never competed in it.

That is until this year.

Today in Japan, in front of a crowd of just over 2000, the U.S. National Team laid the wood to South Korea 77-0 in their first game of the World Cup. Reports are fuzzy, but I think eight South Koreans were killed during the course of the game. The U.S. Team consists entirely of NCAA and NAIA players whom you've never heard of, meaning they're all still probably four times the size of the average South Korean player.

The next team the U.S. faces is Germany on July 12. The Panzers also annihilated the South Koreans 32-2 (and drew a larger crowd). I wouldn't be too worried though, the fact that South Korea got a safety on them confirms my suspicisions that the Germans are total pussies.

The rest of the competition isn't exactly fierce either. It includes European Champion Sweden, France and Japan. I'm not sure what's more impressive, the fact that the French actually had the guts to play our style of football or that Sweden is the European Champion.

And if you can find the time, or a Japanese TV network, the final will be July 15th.

Despite the bizarre fact that Japan is favored to three-peat (at least according to the Japanese media), I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict the U.S. to win the World Cup. Call me crazy, but I've just got a good feeling about their chances.

-WCK

If you want to follow-up on the event, we stumbled across a guy that's blogging about it.