Canadian Olympic Team Support - Paint the Town Red

[Calculator Jockey]

Not sure where to put this but believe it should fall within the "Home Front".

I saw this on yesterday evenings news cast and was disturbed by it (perhaps a little touchy but none the less I am).
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2009/22/c7374.html

http://paint-town-red.olympic.ca/

They (Canadian Olympic Committee) are asking all Canadian citizens to wear red, fly red, anything red to show support to the Canadian Olympic athletes. Now don't get me wrong as I do support the Canadian athletes, but the "red" was to show support to our Canadian Troops by wearing red on fridays.

The people that were discussing this were asked by the journalist what they thought of the fact that we (Canadians) were already wearing red on fridays to show support to our troops and now they (COC) are asking Canadian citizens to wear red all the time and to do various activities with the "red" to show support to the athletes.

Perhaps I am over reacting here, but believe that the COC could have come up with a different concept while respecting our Canadian Military personnel and their families.

:cdnsalute:

Calculator Jockey

 

[Roy Harding]

I understand where you're coming from, but ...

Red is the vibrant colour of our national flag - it is natural that all who wish to show support for any national agenda of any kind would be called upon to wear red.

What would you have the COC do - ask supporters of the Olympics to wear chartreuse?

Just for the record - I'm not a big fan of the Olympics (or any OTHER taxpayer funded entertainment enterprise) - but I don't see that these folks are doing anything wrong by asking their supporters to wear red in support of their chosen cause.