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Men’s Speedskating 1000 (long track) Shani Davis is one of the most accomplished athletes competing at these Olympic Games – highlighted by his gold-medal wins in this event at the 2006 Torino Olympics and 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Therefore, he could be forgiven a little chip on his shoulder watching far less accomplished athletes get lucrative commercial endorsements that… Read more.
Women’s Ski Jumping In my Day 1 commentary below, I mocked the way the International Olympic Committee was “gilding the lily” by adding so many redundant events (like Team Figure Skating) to the Winter Olympics this year. This is why I feel so incredulous that the (mostly male) members of the IOC forced women ski… Read more.
Men’s Downhill This is easily the premier event at the Winter Olympics, much as the Men’s 100m is at the Summer Olympics. A better analogy, though, might be to assert that the Downhill is to ski racing what Formula One is to car racing. This clearly makes the former inherently more dangerous, but it also looks… Read more.
The irony seems completely lost on American media that they’re the ones terrorizing us by featuring so many politicians and security experts stoking mundane fears about Russia’s ability to prevent terrorist attacks during next month’s Winter Olympics. Not to mention their hysterical reporting on a cell of black-widow suicide bombers now allegedly lying in wait… 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.
This week, in an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron, acclaimed renaissance man Stephen Fry added his voice to those calling for a boycott of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia to protest that country’s new anti-gay laws. In his inimitably dramatic fashion, Fry suggested that attending the Games in homophobic Russia today… Read more.
