Patience is a virtue

See...what did I tell you?

Canada has won two more golds since yesterday's post, and all of a sudden Canucks are indeed owning (rather than moaning) the podium, even if it is for just one day. Ashleigh McIvor won the women's ski cross today - no, I didn't know such an event existed either - and last night Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir took the ice dance gold with a performance reminiscent of Torvill and Dean all those years ago. Any Brit of a certain age still has the Bolero routine burned into their memory cells, and I'm sure Virtue and Moir's skate will become part of the Canadian collective memory over the course of time.

And as I write, the men's hockey team are cruising past Germany to set up a quarter final clash with Russia, the women are already in their final (against USA on Thursday), and both the men's and women's curlers sit atop the pile after a series of dominant displays in the round robin - where does that phrase come from? - stages of the competition.

So cheer up Brian, you know what they say...