February 28, 2010 Day 28

The last month has been a blur. So many memories and events, too many to describe.

I can honestly say, it has been a priviledge to be part of the games. To experience it from a different perspective. The feedback that we received directly from the IOC is that our Anti-Doping program has been the best of all of the previous 19 Olympics. There has not been 1 formal complaint from not a single athlete about the anti-doping control process or program at the Winter games and it has beem without any major doping scandal. It has been so satisfying to know that our efforts in the anti-doping program has been effective and has made a difference. The 30 athletes that had anti-doping program violations and were "sent home" were as a result of the pre-competition testing program to detect doping prior to the Olympics. The word on the street that most of the 30 athletes were Russian athletes and that was one of the reasons they did not do so well because they had their "B" team so to speak.

As of today, of all of the ~1,500 tests done at the Olympics, there has not been 1 positive test (that we know of). I really hope there will not be any Olympic medalists stripped of their medals because of positive doping control tests but we shall see over the next month.

I guess the best way to summarize my Olympic experience, i will leave everyone with my top 10 list and memories of the Vancouver Winter Olympics...

10. How great leadership (and poor leadership) on a world stage can be so good and so bad...

9. Thinking that a blue smurf outfit was cool to wear in public after wearing it 28 days out of the last 30...

8. All you can eat cookies, hot chocolate, juice and pop!

7. A new appreciation for Norway from Ragnhild Mjoen. Getting to work with unbelievable elite athletes and more importantly, great people such as Marit Bjoergen (3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze in cross-country skiing) and Petter Northug (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze in cross country skiing).

6. A new appreciation for Ski Jumping. Meeting and talking with Simon Amman who's record jump in ski flying is 250m! He had won 2 gold medals in Ski jumping. 1 Gold on the Normal hill and 1 Gold on the Large Hill for Switzerland.

5. Going for a run with an Olympic athlete on a busy road and getting in trouble for it but the athlete really appreciating it and then remembering me for it. (I would do it again).

4. The medals plaza. I went to watch the medals ceremony for the Russian cross country skier that I went for a run with and got to know quite well. He was really happy about winning a medal. I also wanted to go see Petra Majcic (see #1)

3. The great people I have had to work with and I have met from all over the world. (Except the media. They are all parasites). The picture I posted are all of the vehicles, reporters and photographers waiting just outside our doping control station for the medal winners to interview them. They wait like vultures...

2. Sidney Crosby and Team Canada Hockey! I've never felt so proud and excited to be Canadian. Our testing finished at WOP at about 2:00 pm and the only people left were all of the police officers (about 100 of them) and just the workforce workers (another 100 or so) so they put the game up on the huge jumbotron screens for everyone to watch the game. When Sidney scored, everyone went crazy. It was great because I wasn't watching at a bar or in a hotel room.

1. Petra Majdic. An unbelievable example of determination and will. She won the gold medal after fracturing her ribs and puncturing her lung. She could barely move after her Bronze medal win and she never gave up to win the first skiing medal for Slovenia. What is amazing is she did 2 races after crash to qualify and win the womens sprint. A really nice woman.

I know I missed some things like Jennifer Heils interview and some other golden moments but this has been a great experience.

GO CANADA GO!

Thanks for your interest and support. I am looking forward to being home.

Tim