Comments on: Column: Winners & Losers of the Olympics

By: Rici

Rici — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:51:31 +0000

all distance sports should be reduced to a short run, a long run, and a relay

Would you recommend the same for the summer olympics, in track? Let’s say: 100m, 10K, and the 4×400 relay? That should suffice. After all, it’s just the same motion to get you around the track…

By: Ove

Ove — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:48:32 +0000

Skiing behind the targets.. Brilliant! :)

By: David K

David K — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:25:51 +0000

For the record, I believe only one ice dancing pair trains at the Cube, but the gold (Virtue/Moir)and silver medalists (Davis/White) in ice dancing train in Canton, Michigan. Curling got popular because they got some steak instead of hamburger. Argyle pants, and better looking competitors didn't hurt, like popular Cheryl Bernard, who looks like a saint: [Link] Regarding biathlon, it is difficult to aim when your heart is racing from a max cardio workout as XC skiing produces. It has long been part of the Winter Olympics, as a demonstration sport and adopted formerly in 1960 at Squaw Valley. [Link] Biathlon has Nordic roots, but also is important in the history of WWII. Just wiki 10th Mountain division for the details of how 4,000 soldiers were trained to shoot and ski and help beat back the German troops. Collectively, the Nordic events are also important to certain regions, such as the Adirondack hometown of Bill Demong, Saranac Lake, where an Olympian tribute parade was held yesterday. Lake Placid, 9 miles down the road from Saranac Lake, produced a bronze winner in Alpine downhill, Andy Weibrecht: [Link] In fact Lake Placid and ORDA (Olympic Regional Development Authority) spent a significant investment with a hospitality center in Vancouver, getting lots of TV and print/web media exposure as well (thanks Al Michaels too).

By: Liz Nowland-Margolis

Liz Nowland-Margolis — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:30:11 +0000

Stephen Colbert won the gold for actual fireplace sitting inside the fireplace to demonstrate NBC’s no holds bar on expense with a fake fireplace!

By: Steve Borgsdorf

Steve Borgsdorf — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:17:52 +0000

I think Bob Costas took the gold medal in fireplace-sitting (again), with Tom Brokaw narrowly edging Al Michaels for the silver, largely on the strength of the small town Canada 9-11 retrospective.