Spare me the analyses and comparisons. Are we going to relegate ourselves to playing never-good-enough, little brother to our square-jawed, over-achieving, all-star, older sibling forever?? My opinion: the Olympic opening ceremonies were as Canadian as it gets.

Gretsky's long truck ride in the rain to light the outside cauldron? It may have made for bad tv but for the fans who ran alongside the truck cheering and waving, it was an unprecedented opportunity to be part of an Olympic Games opening ceremony (not to mention brush with greatness!!)

Anyway, here's one of the guys I can't wait to watch. Yeah, he makes something like 7.5 mil a year but he clearly isn't some overpaid, mtv prima donna. Here's his winning performance from the X Games last month. Look at the way he comes back from an unintentional spinal realignment...