Thursday, February 22, 2018

More 2018 Miscellaneous Winter Olympic Musings

Updates!
The U.S. women's hockey team beat its arch rival Canada in the gold-medal game at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics . . . just after their male counterparts were eliminated by the Czech Republic.
Before you start talking about girls ruling and boys drooling, let me remind you that the National Hockey League's refusal to let its best players compete in the Olympics hindered the U.S. men's team, and the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) men's hockey team - medal favorites - should never have been allowed to play.  Since the Russians are such obvious cheats - and the women's OAR team prove that cheaters never prosper - I'd rather see the American men lose to the Czechs than to the Russians.  (Funny how the U.S. men's team beat the Slovaks and not the Czechs - if Czechoslovakia were still one country, I wonder what the dynamic would have been in these Games.)
Lindsey Vonn was first in the downhill run of the woman'e super combined . . .but made a mistake in the slalom run when sh missed a gate and did not finish.  (I saw the former run but missed the latter.) Vonn still gets credit for being one of the toughest and most durable skiers in the history of the sport, having come back from so many injuries.  Mikeala Shiffrin win the silver in this event, behind gold medalist Michelle Gisin of Switzerland.  Breitbart News couldn't be happier; now Vonn can't refuse a White House invitation she obviously isn't going to get, because she's not a gold medalist this time (and we all know how much Trump loves gold).   It's now up to the women's hockey team to refuse an invitation to the White House.
And, while all of that was going on, American bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor and her partner Lauren Gibbs won the two-woman bobsledding silver medal, edged out for gold by Mariama Jamanka and Lisa Buckwitz.  Too bad Meyers Taylor, a star at these Games, and Gibbs didn't win gold; they could have refused Trump's invitation too!
Four-man bobsled coming up.  Go Latvia! Praise Janis Kipurs! :-D

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