Olympic Fever

I’ve been watching the Olympics, and I have decided I love the snow-board kids. Well, the boys at least. They are, like, way cool, man!
These kids can take their snow-boards and fly up and down the sides of the half-pipe as though they are weightless. They flex, they turn, they twist and then land, with the greatest of ease. I wonder why the snow-boarders at Waterville and Loon Mountains don’t handle themselves the same way. The only thing I have seen those kids fly over was my back after they knocked me down…but I digress.
I watched “The Flying Red Tomato“, Shawn White on Saturday. He was poetry in motion. He’s made me actually enjoy watching the snow-boarding! And when he was done with his run and had a microphone shoved in his face he was humble and nice and emotional and he liked his parents. That was great to see.

I’ve also enjoyed the USA Women’s Hockey Team. These women are really something. Their hustle, their stick handling, their spirit, puts a lot of the NHL teams I’ve seen lately to shame. I’m pretty proud when I watch these women representing our country. Their victory over Finland was breathtaking! I hope they do for women’s hockey what The USA Women’s Soccer Team did for women’s soccer!

Bode Miller is proving to be a real disappointment. It seems that when it really has mattered how he skied, he has skied poorly. Too bad. He has the talent, and the opportunity that you and I will never have, and he is blowing it.

I’m looking forward to more skiing, more skating, (both figure and hockey) and, yes, even more snow-boarding. (If only they’d stay in their half-pipes!)