Everyone's a critic.

THE 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS. A TIME TO REJOICE. A TIME FOR DEFEAT.

But everyone thinks they can make the calls. No matter what sport or racing event that takes place in Vancouver this year, people have this thought that if they are in possession of a remote, they have the power to determine whether the racers or bobsledding teams or cross-country skiers are justified to receive that gold medal they've been working their butts off for.

Hold up. Who gave you the power to decide who gets a medal or not? Obviously, we all know that Apolo Ohno deserves a medal. But who are we to decide if the Yugoslavian from all the way across the world has the perfect ski-flying technique? Or if the Chinese skier, nicknamed "princess" has flawless form? Who are we to rescind the judge's decision?

We're not in the jury room and we need to get over ourselves.

Too many people think that they have the medals in their hands. They think they have the power to decide who gets what award. And do they? Well, just take a look look at them: the choleric viewers are sitting on their leather sofas staring at their flat screen tv's eating cheese puffs and screaming at the tv. Tell me frankly, how does this compare to an actual Olympic judge, with years and years of training and a keen eye for rigid form and slight ?

It doesn't.

The laconic arguments people make to justify why Shaun White should not have won the gold medal this year don't stand a chance against the judges' official marks. He justifiably won that medal, not because viewers with cheese breath were sitting at home cheering for him but because he spent years and years diligently training for these seventeen or so days.

I may sound malcontent, but I think everyone should stop screaming at their tv's and start respecting the judges.

**And congrats to the parvenu who won the silver medal this morning in the biathlon (cross-country skiing and shooting). He was the first Yugoslavian to ever win a silver medal. And he won it because the judges made the call, not anyone else.**