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I noted in “Diplomatic Brinkmanship Upstages the Opening Ceremony” on February 9 that supervening events might limit my commentary on Olympic events. That has been the case, most notably last week with the Parkland mass shooting and the resignation of South African President Jacob Zuma, and this week with the death of Billy Graham and… Read more.
Women’s Super-G Lindsey Vonn is easily the most successful female skier in history. She racked up a record-setting 81 wins on the World Cup tour between 2002 and 2018. But, despite opportunities at five Olympic Games over that period, she has only one career-crowning gold medal. To be fair, untimely injuries, which she chronicled with… Read more.
Frankly, this is arrogant and disrespectful (to both men and women skiers). Downhill Skiing ranks among my favorite spectator sports – right behind Swimming and Track and Field. This is why I am so dismayed by the farce Lindsey Vonn is trying to make of this sport. The 33-year-old, the most successful woman in World… Read more.
Alas, Tiger is still making a spectacle of his private life … at the expense of his professional life. After tabloids exposed Tiger as a serial adulterer in November 2009, I wrote that he should let his game do the talking and limit public statements about his personal life to the minimum required to appease Nike,… Read more.
When Lindsey Vonn crashed during a Colorado training run two weeks ago, most commentators said that she had dashed all hopes of defending her Olympic downhill title at the Sochi Winter Olympics in two months. To be sure, re-injuring the same right knee she blew out at the World Championships last February does not bode… Read more.
