Posted on 02/15/2014 10:54:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The snow in the Caucasus Mountains is dissolving, the white patches shrinking, and many athletes on Team USA seem to be melting down with them. Some Americans are drained, and others are dragging. When they ski or they skate, they think they went fast, but then they look up at the clock and are stunned to find they were a second slow, and finish eighth. Team USA’s self-esteem is leaking away, and it’s triggering anxious super-secret coaching meetings and conspiracy theories. What’s in the Russian water table — and why are those Swiss timers so suspiciously slow?
It must be a plot — some foreign machination, causing this massive slippage. Four years ago in Vancouver, the Americans won more medals than anyone, with 37, but halfway through Sochi, the 13 medals they have won somehow don’t feel quite as memorable as the ones they let get away. They can’t win so much as a foiled chocolate in speedskating, where they’ve yet to finish any better than seventh. U.S. speedskating coach Ryan Shimabukuro said: “The fact that we’re that far out, something’s up.”
“It’s a mystery to me,” skater Brian Hansen said. “I think it’s a mystery to a lot of people.”
A mystery! At least that’s something for the American television audience to grab on to, because there is precious little suspense otherwise, save for the matter of when Bob Costas will return from his eye infection, and that’s a dodgy matter too. Who or what is poisoning us?
What accounts for this? Ted Ligety was the gold medal favorite in Friday’s super combined, yet he finished 12th, while Bode Miller was sixth, both of them shooting up huge rooster-tails of snow, futilely.
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Her story is interesting. 3rd Olympic, first medal. She had retired, had two children, pregnant with her third, when she miscarried. Her husband worried about her and insisted she try again. He felt she needed it to heal. Looks like she healed and finally medaled. Gotta love her spunk.
And PHHHTTTT to woman’s lib. She did this with a family and children.
We loved watching that, too. Her climbing over the rails to hug hubby and babies was priceless. I also enjoyed watching her entire family cheer the other American racer, just as enthusiastically as they’d cheered for Nicole. What a treat to see her win and to see her family enjoying every second of it with her :)
Amazing what one can accomplish when they don’t waste their life propping up liberal delusions. Sounds like she earned every bit of her success.
The same American brain washed Team that felt it necessary to sign some UN Global warming declaration? fluck them.
This would make an awesome inspirational story.
Im proud my President is on vacation
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