Back to May 9th!

[cerealjoe]

When I wrote my original entry about France's victory over Russia at the World Championships, it was a few hours after witnessing it and I think a lot of people were full of hope that maybe France would qualify for the quarterfinals afterwards… we all know that they didn't and they played some spectacularly terrible hockey in a few games, but for me being to say that I actually was there when that victory happened, it's still something. Heck, it's like that time I actually was at the Tour de France stage where Voeckler took over for the first time in his career the yellow jersey (it was in Chartres in 2004 and I took the train there from Paris where my sister was taking her post-prépa exams, Stuey had won the stage). Maybe at the time I didn't really give a care about it, I was just happy I had seen Stuey win and I had spotted Matt Wilson and Brad McGee… but now I consider the fact that I had been there at that stage as one of the more awesome things I've had the chance to live through. Enough blabbing though, while going through the photos again I saw that I actually had taken photos of the jumbotron at what I had considered as awesome moments at the time: - "Man, we've managed to hold off Russia for almost the whole first period! That's amazing!" - "Woah… what's happening? They scored and then we score? Almost half of the second period is over and we're not being decimated yet?" - "Right. It's been already three minutes, three whole minutes!!!, in the third period and they haven't destroyed us yet to take the lead? OMFG what is air?" The last photo of that series was posted already last time with the grumpy Russian dude and the final score.