Vancouver Olympics : Time for a patriotic flashback

As we prepare to celebrate Canada Day, thoughts about what to barbecue brings up some long-dormant memories of the Vancouver Olympics. (Remember them? Huge!)

Head to theprovince. com/gobig, where sports editor Jonathan McDonald remembers the wonderful, unscripted, 40 or so seconds when double-medallist Marianne St-Gelais cheered on boyfriend Charles Hamelin in his own short-track final. While reading it, share your own favourite memories. Canada Day seems like the right time to do it.

Meanwhile, our World Cup player poster series starts Tuesday in The Province. You voted for the top 11 players at theprovince. com/2010worldcup (follow Kyle Benning's Inside the 18 blog, and vote in our World Cup of Women contest, while you're there). We'll deliver a player a day until the July 11 final, starting with Spain's Fernando Torres -- appropriate, since he's got a do-or-die match Tuesday against Portugal -- and continuing Wednesday with Brazil keeper Julio Cesar.

Finally, at theprovince. com/mmablog, E. Spencer Kyte's Keyboard Kimura blog celebrates Fabricio Werdum's Strikeforce win Saturday night.