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The Olympic Pontificater - Opinions on the
Winter Games
2/28/10 Farewell to the Vancouver Olympics
The Vancouver Olympics should be credited with having the gold, silver,
and bronze medals manufactured with recycled materials and staging the
opening/closing ceremonies for less than one tenth the cost of what
China spent. There will need to be plenty more of that attitude in the
future as memories of Nodar Kumaritashvili, Bill Demong, Shaun White,
Joannie Rochette, and Bode Miller fade. Left remaining is for us to
consider what needs to be done to improve the Winter Olympics. Journalist
Sally Jenkins published an article about the wrongs of the IOC with
regard to integrity and lack of backboned leadership where it matters.
Fellow journalist Mitch Kaplan commented that the Olympics are "overly
commercial, too professional, overly embellished with pomp-and-circumstance,
have been too jingoistic, and are over-hyped."
The diagnosis of the Olympics is too expensive, too many hours, too many competitions, not enough awareness of Olympic sports in non-Olympic years, too rigid social rules, too many locations, and so on. A brief prescription to address some of these problems:
A. Pick three existing Olympic venues with one in Asia, one in North America, and one in Europe and rotate the games at these three venues. This will save substantial money, allow periodic enhancements of existing facilities rather than recreating everything from scratch and it will minimize the dirty politics associated with getting the games in different locations around the world. It would also standardize the competition venues. I love seeing new locations as much as anyone but building the required venues, analyzing the security, and so on every four years is just too costly not to mention the negative political ramifications.
B. Stage fewer events - the Winter Olympics has gone from 46 events in 1988 to 86 in 2010 (the Summer Olympics is 300 events for 200 countries). Do we need 10 separate biathlon event categories? Are new competition categories for different religions in the offing (5 km biathlon for Buddhists athlete category). Nuff said.
C. Rotate TV rights holders - Avoid the long term deals with individual TV networks. This will help to develop a larger range of media, which can remain more interested in the Olympic sports during non-Olympic years and it can spur innovation in coverage. More coverage of live events and more access on the Internet would be nice.
I was sincerely joyful for the Olympics and particularly
to see the first cross country ski gold medal for the US and a great
hockey tournament but we can strive to make the Olympics better. Thank
you Vancouver.
2/27/10 Scotty Lago Story
Admittedly, I avoided one of the juiciest stories at the Vancouver Olympics
when I chose to not write about US snowboard halfpipe bronze medalist
Scotty Lago getting caught by the camera in a compromising position
and then being given a go-home-or-else ultimatum from the US Ski Team
(and perhaps the US Olympic Committee). According to a Lago friend,
it seems that Lago was required by these organizations to lie and say
that he was leaving the Olympics on his own volition so that the incident
would blow over. The USSA did not care about Lago's apology or account
of the incident where in his words a spotlight-hungry girl duped him
into getting caught in the photo. After seeing how the Canadian Olympic
Team supported the gold medal women's hockey team after their on-ice
party, Lago got upset about the lack of support from the USSA and USOC.
Seems two-faced to ask an athlete to lie when there are plenty of Olympic
skeletons in the organizations' closets for many years in the past.
The Canadians appeared to have gotten their response right regarding
the hockey girls' party.
A Golden Opportunity Missed
Cheryl Bernard missed two chances to seize a gold medal victory for
Canada in the Women's Curling competition in the final two ends. The
Swedes' win, watched by Sweden's King Carl Gustaf was a come-from-behind
that had the stones when it counted.
Canadian Gold Medals
Canada hauled in the most gold medals (13) in Winter Olympic history
at the Vancouver Olympics. The US surpassed the all time record for
total number of medals (36) as they had 37 medals.
Ohno, Tell Us it Ain't So
Apolo Ohno took a swipe at the Canadian referee for disqualifying him
in his last individual speed skating race. It was uncalled for since
Ohno has won a number of his medals over the years due to similar rulings
against his opponents.
Winning Medals at 40
Ole Einar Bjorendalen the 36 year old Norwegian biathlon competitor
won a gold and a silver in Vancouver bringing the number of his career
medals to 11, one shy of Bjorn Daehlie, the Norwegian xc skier. Bjorendalen
says he'll be competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia
to make his claim as the winningest winter Olympic athlete.
2/26/10 First Ever US Gold Medal in a Cross Country Ski
Event
The US Nordic Combined Team competitor Bill Demong won the gold medal
in the Individual 10 km for the first ever gold medal in any Olympic
cross country ski event. The Winter Olympics were first held in 1924,
so the story is that it took 86 years to win the gold. Johnny Spillane,
won the silver in the same event making it 3 silver medals for him in
the Vancouver games. Oh yeah, after receiving the medal Demong proposed
to his long time girlfriend last night (she said yes) and also was selected
to carry the US flag during the closing ceremonies. Demong made up a
46 second deficit to pass Austrian Bernhard Gruber. The two Americans
worked together taking turns pushing the pace and relaxing in the leader
group, so the Austrian tired out. The rest of the pack was held at bay
by US teammate Todd Lodwick, who tried to maintain a slow pace to keep
the other racers from making a run at the leader group. The jumping
portion of the race was dubbed a lottery by competitors, who did not
win because of inconsistent weather. Maybe after 86 years it was just
about time the Americans had some luck in an Olympic cross country ski
event.
Article Recognizes Paul Robbins
Ski journalist Peggy Shin published an article quoting US Nordic Combined
Gold Medalist Bill Demong's Twitter comments. Paul Robbins, a ski team
writer who passed away 2 years ago had befriended the Nordic Combined
team for many years. Demong posted a photo from the medal podium with
a reference to Robbins claiming that "Paul Robbins is proud."
A fitting ceremony was conducted by Robbins' son, who brought Robbins'
ashes to the Olympics in of all things a Dunkin Donuts coffee cup. They
sprinkled the ashes under a hemlock tree in sight of the wonderful 4
medal efforts by the US Nordic Combined Team.
Too Much of a Good Thing - Three gold medals by Marit
Bjoergen the Norwegian woman star, who skied the last leg of the 4 x
5 km relay in front of Norway's King Harald V. She grabbed a Norwegian
flag and skied without using poles on the final meters of the race after
assuring her 4th medal in 4 races (3 golds).
2/25/10 Reflections from the US Nordic Combined Men
Johnny Spillane commented that the silver medal effort by "the
US Nordic Combined Men's Team was a ground breaking team event and the
culmination of a lot of years of hard work and disappointment."
The team returned to home base Park City, UT after the first individual
Nordic Combined competition to refocus on the team event. Bill Demong
said, "Fracturing my skull was the turning point in my career as
it gave me a year off to recuperate and redefine why I wanted to ski
and what I wanted to get out of it. I like to get my angry out and chase
people."
Petter Northug - the Beast from Norway
The 4 x 10 km Team Relay race showed off Norway's Petter Northug considered
to be the world's best cross country skier. He's the man that no one
wants to see in their rear view mirror and unfortunately that is exactly
the scenario that came about in this race. The racers from France and
Czechoslovakia had a 37.5 second advantage over Northug but they could
not hold on. Sweden's Marcus Hellner skied away with the gold medal
but the memorable moments were the 2nd and 3rd skiers being caught from
behind as the Norwegian stormed by them in the final leg. As Northug
passed the other racers he appeared to turn around and taunt them.
2/24/10 Taking Responsibility
Slovenia's Petra Maidic rejected the IOC position that she was responsible
for her training accident prior to the Women's 1.4 Km Sprint race when
she broke 5 ribs. She was a favorite in the event. She hit a patch of
ice on a corner and plunged down a hill into a gully. The 30 year old
Maidic defied medical advice and excruciating pain in 3 sprint races
to win the bronze medal. "Maybe it was my fault that I fell, but
it was not my fault that I crashed down a cliff and on to the rocks."
She filed a complaint saying that the track conditions were too dangerous
but after review officials found no grounds for concern. No other incidents
occurred on that trail section but event organizers acted to protect
the hole after her crash. "I don't want to sue the organizers to
get a bunch of money," said Maidic, "My wish is to show that
we are not gladiators and it was all our faults."
The Men's 10,000 meter speedskater Sven Kramer of the
Netherlands failed to switch lanes just past the midway point of his
race and was disqualified as a result. He finished in gold medal time
celebrating unaware of what he had done. Kramer's Dutch coach told him
that he was DQ'd and he reacted in disbelief, slinging his glasses in
disgust. "I changed my decision because of advice from the coach,
but at the end of the day it is my responsibility."
Heart Felt Performance
Joannie Rochette, the 24 year old Canadian figure skater became one
of the biggest stories at the Olympics following the sad passing of
her mother by a heart attack only 48 hours prior to her Olympic skating
competition. Joannie and her father had to overcome emotion as she courageously
delivered a personal best performance on the ice. Rochette is currently
in third place after the short program and will participate in the long
program on Thursday. She honored the sacrifices of her mother by fulfilling
their goal of participating in the Olympics. Rochette wept at the end
of her program as heart wrenching cheers filled the stadium.
2/23/10 Nordic Combined Team Faceoff
After the ski jumping portion of today's Nordic Combined Team competition,
Finland led by a very slim margin and got to start two seconds earlier
than the Americans followed by the Austrians and Japanese. There was
a snow storm looming for the relay race portion of the Nordic Combined,
which featured 4 team competitors, who must each ski 5 kilometers leg
of the race. Despite the varying snow and weather conditions, the men
of the US Nordic Combined stood where no others have ever stood for
the USA - winners of the silver medal in the Nordic Combined Team 5
kilometer competition in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Todd Lodwick came
out of retirement after two years. Bill Demong, who won the 2009 World
Championships came back from a swimming pool accident the year before
that resulted in a 7 inch crack in his skull. Johnny Spillane had taken
the silver medal in the earlier individual Nordic Combined race and
Brett Camerota was the junior member of the team, who pulled through.
The team had grown very tight as Spillane commented, "I've spent
more nights with Bill Demong than with my wife." Prior to the race
Demong thought there "was more pressure because we want to do well
by our teammates." They were bested by the Austrians for the gold
medal by only 5.2 seconds as Demong was passed in the final corner by
faster skis. The Germans took the bronze and all the other teams trailed
behind. The American team had made a statement for cross country skiing
in the USA.
Value of Olympic TV Rights Declines
NBC paid $2.1 billion to the IOC for the rights to broadcast the Olympic
games in Vancouver (current winter) and London (summer 2012) and reportedly
will lose about $200 million from the Vancouver Olympics alone. Production
costs are additional to the airing fees. The bidding for the 2014 winter
games and 2016 summer games will soon be open but it is unknown whether
any of the major American broadcast television companies will participate
in the bidding. Rupert Murdock of Fox was quoted saying, "No one's
ever made any money out of the Olympics." It was reported that
Fox, ESPN, and Turner are interested in procuring the rights to the
Olympic games but there is a desire to pay less for the rights fees.
Cross Country Team Sprint Races
The Men's Team Sprint Freestyle is a cross country ski race in a 2-man
relay where each skier takes turns going 3 laps around a 1.6 km course.
The Norwegians won the race. Congratulations to the Canadians who took
fourth place. The USA was 9th out of 20 teams but looking at the bright
side, they were ahead of 2 Scandinavian teams, a bunch of teams from
the old Soviet Union, and China.
The Women's Team Sprint Freestyle medal winners were Germany, Sweden, and Russia and the 2-woman team from the USA was 6th besting the Canadians who were 7th. I guess that makes the USA women the queens of North America. While we would have loved for our teams to be on the podium, these were good showings by both the Americans and the Canadians.
Everyone Loves a Parade
If you wondered about what happens with the Olympic medal winners after
the games (just the most famous get on Regis Philbin's show) here in
the Upper Valley we will celebrate Hannah Kearney (Women's Moguls Gold
Medalist) with a parade this Friday. She will start at Hanover High
School in the middle of the day and make her way across the Connecticut
River to Norwich (her home town) to be welcomed by Vermont's Governor
Douglas. She'll make a speech and thank everyone for their support.
2/22/10 TV Ups and Downs
NBC has done an incredible job showing the action at the Winter Olympics.
The close-ups and vantage points have been excellent. The last second
photo finishes at the cross country ski events are very exciting and
the snowboarding and hockey slow motion action is simply amazing. But
I've heard and agree with much ballyhoo about the NBC decision to air
Sunday evening's prime time event (Canada vs. USA hockey game) on MSNBC
rather than on the broadcast network where ice dancing and the super
combined were shown. The hockey game was incredibly exciting and many
viewers, who do not have access to MSNBC were unable to watch. The common
explanation is that women comprise the largest segment of viewers and
they traditionally want to see ice skating. I think anyone watching
that hockey game would have been caught up in the excitement…but
I imagine that NBC has statistical evidence for their decision making.
2/21/10 Flying with Errol
Say the name Errol and most of us think of Errol Flynn the actor in
black and white films. Some New Englanders might think of Errol as the
town in NH in the Umbagog area of the White Mountains, but I've received
two press releases since the start of the Olympics about Errol Kerr,
born in New York and participating in the Olympic SkiCross competition
under the Jamaican flag. In fact, he is the entire Jamaican Ski Team.
Kerr is sponsored by some ski-related companies and the National Brotherhood
of Skiers club, which all got in on a PR sweepstakes for easy press
coverage about the 23 year old anomaly nicknamed the Usain Bolt of SkiCross.
But Errol Kerr will have a long way to go to win hearts like in the
1988 Winter Olympics when Eddie the Eagle from Britain became a household
name and favorite ski jumper without the PR support. Kerr made
it to the quarterfinals and that is saying something.
Bode Miller, the skiing quote machine is one of the most real of American athletes to ever come along. He won the gold in the combined and now has one medal of each color at Vancouver. After how Miller was fried for his performances in the last Olympics, we now must call his Vancouver medals as one of the greatest comebacks in American sports. But he may be without a butt for a few days after saying, "I skied my ass off." Bode said he'll be proud of the way he executed in his gold medal efforts (GS and slalom aspects to the race) for the rest of his life and that he "skied with 100 percent of his heart." Right On!
Snowboarder Shaun White gets my vote for the coolest American
winter competitor for playing ghost guitar during the national anthem
while on the podium in celebration of his gold medal in the halfpipe.
Apollo Ohno gets the nod for the most famous after taking his 7th medal
in two Olympics and winning the Dance with the Stars TV show.
2/19/10 Norwegians Winning Again
The xc ski racers from Norway are making me regret the premature celebration
for their lack of medals in earlier cross country ski races. Marit Bjoergen
won the gold medal for Norway when she took the sprint classic. And
for good measure she took the 15 km pursuit gold medal two days later.
Sonja Henie, the Norwegian ice skater and actress in 15 films including
Sun Valley Serenade was the last Norwegian to win two golds in the same
Olympics back in the late1920's. A couple of days ago, Tora Berger's
gold medal in the 15 km individual biathlon was Norway's 100th Winter
Olympic gold medal in history!
Ugly Patriotism
I dislike when after winning the athletes drape their flag over their
shoulders about as much as everyone else dislikes Americans chanting
USA USA. But there has been some patriotic and personal public sniping
at the Vancouver Olympics. Russian skater Plushenko says the US gold
medal winner in men's figure skating is not worthy of the gold because
he did not try a quadruple jump. The US Skeleton team accused the British
woman leader of using a helmet that has illegal aerodynamic features.
And the Austrians complained about bindings used by the gold medal Swiss
ski jumper. Can't we all just get along?
Ode to Bode
Congratulations to Bode Miller, American all time leader of Winter Olympic
alpine skiing medals (4), who has won a bronze and a silver medal in
his first two races in Vancouver. Now that Bode is piling up hardware
at the Vancouver Olympics, isn't it time for him to rip all the media
that piled on after his having fun and a lack of medals at the Torino
Olympics?
2/18/10 Women's Downhill - The Americans must feel that it was worth the wait to see Vonn and Mancuso take gold and silver in the Women's Downhill. But with 6 crashes and one nearly 200 foot flight, it was hairy and dangerous. Vonn showed how strong she is as she limited the weight on her injured right shin. Vonn is the only women on the circuit who skis on men's skis and it helped her handle the frozen bumps. The race officials decide to address the course after the race by lowering the jumps and shortening the course length to decrease the speed.
White is the Best
Shaun White, America's snowboarding king proved again that he is clearly
the best in the halfpipe as he took the gold with no questions. After
his first of two runs, he had secured the gold but he decided to put
a bow on it in his second run by uncorking his epic Double McTwist 1260
just to entertain the audience (that's billions watching around the
world). Congrats to American Scotty Lago for taking the bronze and it
was nice to hear Louie Vito shout out to Kevin Pearce, the popular rider
from Norwich, VT, who suffered a serious concussion in January.
2/17/10 Cross Country Skiing's Hatfields and McCoys Revisited
The Norwegians and Swedes did battle at the cross country ski sprints
in both the men's and women's qualifying sprint events and it was the
Norwegians, who regained their position atop the cross country ski world
(also Russian men took gold and silver). Many photo finishes, mad dashes,
falls, and last second tension made for hours of real cutthroat excitement
in the one mile elimination rounds at the Whistler Olympic Park.
Hail to US Women's Hockey
You got to say hats off to the US Women's Hockey team for beating the
Russians 13-0. All eyes look toward the upcoming match-up with the Canadian
women's team.
Ticket Refunds for the Glitch Games
The tally of misfortune and miscalculation continues to mount for the
Olympic Organizing Committee as the Vancouver Olympics will be forever
known as the Glitch Games. There were problems with the speed skating
ice resulted in some competitors quitting (USA's Shani Davis). And tickets
for events to be held at Cypress Mountain were being refunded for snowboarding
competitions to the tune of $1.44 million. It seems that fans at Cypress
were falling between hay bales under melting layers of trucked-in snow.
The outdoor Olympic cauldron is protected by a controversial chain link
fence that prevents people from getting close to the famous symbol.
With too little snow at Cypress, too warm and then too much snow at
Whistler, and the changing weather at the cross country venue…oy
vey. But the Olympics will persevere. At least the curling events reported
that the interest is so high that tickets were being scalped to get
in. What a country.
Low Expectations in Cross Country Ski Competition
It gets a bit frustrating to continue hearing the results of the US
cross country skiers in the face of US Nordic Combined team success.
Sara Studebacker finished 45th in the women's 7.5 km sprint and then
46th in the 10 km pursuit and she commented, "I felt pretty relaxed.
I don't feel like there's any pressure on me, and I really enjoyed the
experience." With regard to her next race in the 15 km she said,
"If everything goes well, a top 30 place should be in reach."
I imagine these comments are in context of a program that has promised
to mature for decades but it seems that we have been crawling before
we walk for the last 86 years and the low expectations are getting really
old. Yeah, it is about good sportsmanship and the spirit of competing
but we're pulling for Kikkan Randall to raise the US perspective in
women's cross country skiing.
The Saga of Lindsey Jacobellis
Rather than focusing on leading woman snowboarder Jacobellis flubbing
in the snowboardcross event, we could recognize her for dominating a
sport for so many years. She is only known across the world for having
the gold medal sewn up in the Torino games before blowing a landing
after a method grab in the last jump causing her to settle for the silver.
The media billed the Vancouver Olympics as Jacobellis' redemption. It
wasn't to be as she went out in the semifinals. Kudos to Canadian Maelle
Ricker for winning the snowboardcross gold. It was disappointing that
we did not get to see the battle between Ricker and Jacobellis in the
final.
2/16/10 Web Sites for Olympic Coverage
I get the news from various Olympic Web sites and I have been having problems with NBCOlympics, so I am using Yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/morenews and Vancouver2010.com/
The juicer info is on Yahoo Olympic Blog such as a piece about biathlon rifles (what with guns and bullets it is comforting to know that there has never been a fatality in biathlon competition) and "Biathlon is the sweatiest sport at the Winter Olympics. A 2002 study showed that athletes competing in the 20-kilometer race produce approximately five pounds of sweat during the event."
2/15/10 Women's Moguls
Congratulations to Upper Valley (home of XCSkiResorts.com) resident
Hannah Kearney, winner of gold in the women's freestyle moguls. Sports
reporter Dan Patrick had the story all wrong as he kept harping on the
expectations for the first Canadian gold medal on Canadian soil. He
called Jennifer Heil the current Olympic champion (from the Torino games
4 years ago) but it was Kearney, who is the current world cup point
leader and was the favorite, who pulled it out on the last run. The
story should have been about Kearney's redemption after her 22nd finish
in Torino and torn ACL. Oh, and Kearney is lobbying for Ben & Jerry's
to name an ice cream flavor after her recommending "Hannah's Helicopter"
(she suggests coffee and Oreos). Ben & Jerrys has refuted that this
will happen...oh well.
Cross Country Skiing and Nordic Combined
The big news in the cross country ski events are the many first time
winners. This means that Norway, usually the dominating athletes in
cross country skiing (and their 22 wax technicians) are biting the big
one in Whistler Park. About time!
And among the first time winners was a silver medal in the Nordic Combined for Johnny Spillane of the USA, who appeared to have the gold when he was caught from behind by a Frenchman with only 4 tenths of one second remaining to the finish line. The French guy was born in the USA and lives in Missoula, MT. Tough luck to American Todd Lodwick, who led the race for 95 percent of the time and then ended up in 4th. His comment, "Fourth place sucks." American Bill Demong, who started in 24 position after his jump made it back to finish in sixth place. Add it all up and the Americans had three finishers in the top six and things bode well for the team competition in Nordic Combined later in the week.
The USA Nordic Combined team was expected to do well. The three players have previously won world championships (Demong in 2009) and are currently 8th, 10th, and 13th in the World Cup rankings. Together they have competed in 12 Olympics. The other side of the coin is that these three stars may be in their last Olympics so who knows what the team fortunes will be in the future. Lodwick is 33 years old and Demong and Spillane are both 29.
Biathlon
Tim Burke, the top American contender in Biathlon had bad luck from
the weather, which has been at the center of the Vancouver Olympics
story for months. The snow had to be trucked in to Cypress Mountain
for the moguls and snowboard events. During the biathlon, there was
rain, new wet snow, and sunshine which resulted in advantages and disadvantages
for the racers. Burke, who was among the disadvantaged finished 47th
and another American hopeful Jay Hakkinen finished 54th. Did you ever
try to ski in wet snow? It's slow. Oh, and Burke missed three shots
with the rifle, which didn't help his chances.
Canadian Gold
The Canadians did win their first gold medal with Alexander Bilodeau
taking the men's freestyle mogul competition. It might have been fitting
taking the top of the podium away from a Canadian named Dale Begg-Smith,
who skied for Australia. It was reported that the Australian team officials
whined about the judging for the event feeling that their racer should
have won.
Television
Regarding the television coverage, us Nords have the weather Gods to
thank for the extensive coverage of cross country ski events early in
the Olympics because the weather was responsible for all of the alpine
ski events postponements and NBC had to fill the airtime with something.
NBC needs a primer about covering biathlon from the Germans, where it
is a big thing on TV. I had no idea what was going on. Perhaps the competitors
could have shot paintballs at the TV producers to make it more interesting.
On the other hand, the coverage of the Nordic Combined 10 km race was excellent. The Whistler Park venue is perfectly suited to TV and the race ended with eight competitors vying for medals in the last hundred yards (meters for you nonAmericans). It was truly something special for anyone who enjoys watching any kind of competition.
Short Track
How about the Apolo Ohno race in short track speed skating? Those South
Koreans had a sweep of the medals in the bag on the last turn when the
guy in third place took out the guy in second place allowing Americans
Ohno and Selski to win silver and bronze. The fallen South Korean skater
might want someone to taste his canine cutlets before he takes a bite,
in case his teammate has any revenge in mind.
Catastrophe on the Track
Finally, a comment about the luge catastrophe…there were complaints
about the Whistler sliding track as a design that was too fast and dangerous.
The Canadian Olympic Organizing Committee host and the IOC parlayed
with their lawyers to cover their ass claiming that the crash was the
athlete's fault. One could only imagine if the luger had been American
and the bloody murder that US fans would be calling it. I had a bobsled
ride on wheels in Lake Placid last summer and I've got to say…it
was scary at 50 MPH so I don't know where these competitors get the
cahones to go 90 MPH. It is a sad state of affairs for track designers
to believe that metal support poles can be so close to the track. And
NBC should be admonished for showing the crash so many times on TV.
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