Don't you just love the olympics?! I love, love, love the winter olympics! Maybe it is because I am from the North, and have an affinity for anything that makes winter more tolerable! :-) They just seem so much more exciting and dangerous than the summer olympics.
It seems to me that more American Olympians than usual have a New England tie as well! The brakeman on the two man bob sled is from Melrose Ma. Don't you just wonder how someone from Melrose, Ma, gets involved with bobsledding? Skating- I get, after all it is just a stone's throw from the Boston Skating Club, but bobsledding? Of course, there's NH's own Bode Miller, and Vt has a few men and women representing it, as well.
Watching JR Celski come back (in short track speed skating) from a nearly death defying injury - almost cutting his femoral atery and bleeding to death, by his own skate blade. What determination, and attitude. I am so glad he at least won one medal. I was very sad to see him knocked out in last nights semi-finals, especially since it was the first time his older brother, an active army lieutenant, was able to see him compete in person. It would have been so nice to see JR on the podium receiving a medal, in his brother's presence.
And I LOVE watching Apolo Ohno overtaking his opponents! It always amazes me how he is just able to find the perfect moment to squeeze inside or out, and pass one or two of the leaders. If only, he had not slipped last night - would he finally have gotten the gold medal that has alluded him his entire career, in this particular event??
Watching these men & women fly down the mountain on skis, going 92 miles an hour. I do not even do that in my car on the highway. I can't imagine doing that with just a helmet on for protection! THe luge, the bob sled - everything seems to be going 92 miles an hour.
How about the height they get in the ski jump, or the snow board park. Watching Shaun White do a 1260, or is it 1280? _ Upside down, twisted around, How many feet in the air? Oh, and did you see when he hit the lip of the half pipe, last year with his cheek? How do those competitors ever get back on the horse again, after wipe outs like that? These olympics are NOT for the faint of heart. Heck, it even takes a strong heart just to cheer them on! LOL
Watching the ski and snow board motorcrosses - doesn't that just make you want to get out there and try it? I tell you, I have been stuck in my "Long Ski's" and this has moved me to convert to those shaped ski's - and I'll make darn sure i get the ones w/ the tips on the back too, so I can start hitting the snow parks. All this time, I thought the parks were still just for snow boarders - little did I know, how much fun you can have in the parks w/ these skis. WEll . . . maybe I should be more realistic - after all, I am not eighteen anymore. Oh well, I can dream anyway!
Enjoy the rest of the Olympics! They are half way through :-(
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