Reader Art of the Week: Feb 9-15

Hi readers,

Have you been watching the Sochi Olympics?

Team Canada has been winning medals all week!

Justine Dufour-Lapointe and her sister, Chloe Dufour-Lapointe, won gold and silver in Women’s Freestyle Moguls Skiing, Mark McMorris got a bronze for Men’s Slopestyle Snowboard, and Team Canada won silver in the new Team Figure Skating event.

Today, Charles Hamelin won gold in Short Track Speed Skating and Alexandre Bilodeau and Mikaël Kingsbury won gold and silver in Men’s Freestyle Moguls Skiing!

Wow! Team Canada is off to a great start. Let’s celebrate with this week’s Reader Art of the Week by Zoë, 8.

Awesome picture, Zoë! Let’s hope this inspires all the athletes to keep winning.

Do you have art to share? Send it to chickadeeblog@owlkids.com and we may post it on our blog.

Talk to you later,

Ashley, chickadeeblog@owlkids.com

Make an Olympic T-shirt Craft

Today is the opening ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympics! Show your support for Team Canada by making your very own Olympic T-shirt. Check out the video for step-by-step instructions.

Go, Canada, go!

Mandy, chickadeeblog@owlkids.com

Favourite Moments in the Olympic Winter Games

Who’s getting excited for the Olympics? In our Jan/Feb issue, we asked you to tell us your favourite part of the Winter Games in Sochi, which start on February 7. This has got us thinking about our favourite moments from the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. Mine was definitely this gold-medal winning hockey game:

I’ll never forget that goal scored in overtime by Sidney Crosby. He definitely deserves to be on the cover of our Olympic issue. Go, Team Canada!

Make sure you come back to tell us what your favourite moment is in this year’s Winter Games!

-Kendra, owlblog@owlkids.com

Olympic Fever – Brian Price

The Olympics and Paralympics are just around the corner and we can’t wait!

We want you to get to know some of the amazing Canadian athletes participating in the games this year so we’re featuring an Olympian or Paralympian every week until the events!

This week, Brian Price is our pick.

Photo: Jackie Skender, Rowing Canada Aviron

Since 2001, Brian has been the senior coxswain — the team member who steers the boat and instructs and motivates the rowers — on the Canadian men’s eight rowing team. During that time, he has earned three world championship victories, five World Cup gold medals, and a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Hometown: Belleville, Ontario

Hero: “Terry Fox. I had leukemia when I was a kid, so I looked up to him.”

Favourite food: Tacos

Favourite subject in school: Science

Favourite bands: Our Lady Peace and The Tragically Hip

Favourite inspirational quote: “The motto from Camp Oochigeas, a camp for children with cancer: ‘You’ve only failed if you fail to try. Act as if it were impossible to fail, and it will be.’”

Best advice ever received: “Never get too high on the highs, and never get too low on the lows.”

Check out this video of Brian and the men’s eight crew in training:

We can’t wait to see Brian in the 2012 Summer Olympics kicking off in London on July 27!

Want more Olympic athletes? Look inside the June issue of OWL!

-Kim, owlblog@owlkids.com