I saw this article about how Mexico City is trying to have a world record recognized for the longest conga line of skaters. They only managed 225 skaters, which is rather embarrassing. Their rink is also shamefully teeny, only twice the size of a regular hockey rink. I’m thinking this is a record that Ottawa could smash easily and forever, after all we do have the longest skating rink in the world. How’s this for a rink (sourced from Wikipedia)?
The cleared length is 7.8 kilometres (4.8 miles) and has the equivalent surface area of 90 Olympic hockey rinks.
Those are Olympic sized rinks, folks, not regular rinks. We could probably manage about oh I don’t know maybe 15000 people in our conga line? That’s if the conga line was a straight one, imagine how many people we could get if it zigzagged….
The NCC should set their sights on this one, it would be lots of fun I bet. And we could put those Mexico City people in their place. Who skates in Mexico?
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Just when I had forgotten all about the slanderous blog post regarding Winnipeg’s outdoor rink I stumble upon this exasperating entry that targets Mexico. Both Winnipeg and Mexico are disadvantaged in so many ways. It is nothing short of bullying, the way you attack our piddly assets. In addition, you seem to be utterly obsessed with the size of rinks. Why is it so important that yours be the biggest rink? Are you worried that you will be deemed less of a man if your rink doesn’t measure up? As all Canadians know, it isn’t the size of the rink that matters. It’s what you do with it.
You are right Paula. This is rink bullying of the worst kind. I should stop, or get help. But I’m better now, and not so obsessed with rinks now that I no longer have one of my own. Strangely liberating to not worry so….