Moments after calling the Canadian women’s soccer team loss to Germany in the Olympic quarterfinal, Signa Butler was eating out of a candy cup in Toronto.

No hum of the crowd exiting the stands or the smell of empty beer cans. Just her and a candy cup in a quiet studio, 6,000 kilometres away from the stadium.

“When the game was over, it was just over, and it kind of felt like our Olympics were over,” Butler, one of CBC’s colour commentators at the Paris Olympics, said in an interview. “It was a really unsettling feeling.”

Moments after calling the Canadian women’s soccer team loss to Germany in the Olympic quarterfinal, Signa Butler was eating out of a candy cup in Toronto{ai:summary}<p>In the dim light of a Toronto studio, Signa Butler dug into a candy cup, the disappointment of Canada’s women’s soccer team lingering in the air like stale smoke. A quarterfinal loss to Germany left her with an empty echo where the cheers should have been.  </p><p>The Olympics had slipped through their fingers, leaving a bittersweet taste and an eerie silence in its wake. #sports</p>

As an Olympic broadcaster, how do you call a thrilling event from thousands of kilometres away?

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