Bilodeau

Alexander Bilodeau won the Gold Medal in Men's Moguls at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. This is the first time Canada has won an Olympic Gold Medal on home soil.

CTV did one of those patented "inspiring stories" about him, highlighting his relationship with his brother, who has cerebral palsy. The story was done by Rick Hansen, who is a Canadian wheelchair athlete, and a segment that could have been syrupy and condescending was actually pretty good. They underlined the fact that as a child, Alex liked hockey, but switched to skiing because the sport in general was in some way more accessible to his brother and family, and he didn't want his brother excluded. Alex himself made one of those true but rather tired comments about not giving up in his sport because his brother never gives up in life, yadda, yadda. But then they told about how when Alex did poorly in the last Winter Olympics, and was upset, his brother apparently said he was really proud of Alex, saying something like, "Are you kidding? You competed in the f*cking Olympics!"

So, I was glad to see Alex win, for Canada, and for his family. Sometimes, those tearjerker Olympian stories hit just the right note.