The Post’s Olympic blogger has finally written about the story I mentioned a few days ago concerning Norway’s coach helping the Canadian skiier. He finally wrote about it because someone followed the trackback link I posted about the skating controversy back to my blog and then read it and mentioned it in the comments on his blog and then their blogger did a post which I am now trackbacking to again. Boy, that is confusing.]]>
dipped his toe into the Shani-Chad controversy and was surprised to find it nearly bitten off. He published a piece yesterday that ran only pro-Shani e-mails, and was deluged with e-mails from Chad supporters. I think like a lot of the reporters in Tornio he didn’t see Shani’s interview with NBC after he won the games and doesn’t quite understand where many Americans are coming from (not the first time with a reporter by the way). Anyway–I’m done with this subject, unless one goes postal in the team village or something. Let’s talk about something more interesting, like the Norway skiing coach helping the Canadian or the Korean-American looking for his birth parents.]]>
Maybe Washington should have stuck with Senators instead of Nationals as it appears a name squatter is fighting for the rights to the Washington National’s name. God I hate IP law…]]>
Shauna Rohbock won the silver today in the women’s bobsled, despite a torn rotator cuff that kept her out of duty in Iraq. Shauna Rohbock’s phone rang one afternoon in December 2003 at the bobsled training center in Lake Placid, N.Y. She doesn’t remember the caller’s name, only that he was a sergeant. But she’ll never forget the words. Her Utah National Guard unit had been deployed. She needed to be on an airplane immediately. more….]]>
DanActive, though I’m not sure what good it will do. ]]>
If you haven’t seen the video of the Canadian ice dancer biting it hard then you need to check out that link. It was just painful to watch–you could feel the pain as she slammed into the ice. She got up to get off the ice, but they dropped out of tonight’s competition.]]>
If you think NBC’s coverage is lame, you should see the Korean TV stations. They have all decided that short track is such a massive event that each will show coverage of the games at the same time. Blanket coverage–wall-to-wall on every channel. In fact, each network even has its own commentators doing play-by-play. And because they were so excited that Ohno didn’t make it in one of his races, they decided not to show the gold medal performance of the figure skating. Do you think this will hurt the 2014 Olympic bid by Pyeongchang?]]>
The BBC is reporting that the birth father of Toby Dawson, American bronze medalist in skiing, has been located in Korea after the medalists photo was splashed in the media there.
Dawson, 27, was adopted by US parents in 1982, from an orphanage in Seoul who did not know who his parents were.
Kim Jae-su, 52, said his lost son went missing during a shopping trip with his mother near a market in the South Korean city of Busan, in 1981.
Dawson was found near the same market, South Korean’s Yonhap news agency said.
I guess it will come down to the DNA testing. I hope it isn’t some guy who just lost his kid and is searching for an answer, but I guess we’ll see.
Dawson and the man claiming to be his father.]]>
A tip-off that disgraced Austrian nordic coach Walter Mayer was in contact with the team in Turin led to a late night drug raid and testing for the Austrian cross country team. Seems they were on to something. Two tested positive and a slew of doping-like material was found on the scene. But then things got weird. Mayer was found sleeping in his car near the border. He was involved in a bizarre chase in Austria on Sunday when he tried to evade police and ended up crashing his car into a roadblock they had set up. He’s now in jail.]]>
I fell asleep during the game and awoke in the 3rd period. I glanced at the scoreboard on the screen and said “Hey, US up by 2-1” but the US was in a frantic attack mode which didn’t figure. Why weren’t the Swedes on the offense? It was like they were holding on to a 1 goal deficit for some reason. About 2 minutes from the end I realized “hey, we’re losing.” Of course it doesn’t really matter as everyone advances basically (Kazakstan needs to win by 14 or something) but our next match is against the goal machine of the Russian team. I watch the games during the week at a bar called the Exchange just down from the White House. Perhaps in a throwback to the Cold War spy days, the bar staff seems to be all Russian. It will be fun Tuesday to watch and listen to them (the other day they were chanting ‘Lat-vi-a, Lat-vi-a” when we were playing them.]]>