It was borderline automatic. Dare I say it, but her performance is reminiscent of the 85 Bears under a certain head coach who will not be named. Now I must ask you my friend, who would win the gold medal if Janica was skiing with a piano on her back, acvanced cases of both the bubonic plague and asian bird flu, blindfolded, rubbed down with bacon fat with freaking sharks with freaking lasers instead of gates? My money's on...Janica. Shame on NBC for showing her in shorts, though.
Was without internet for the first day of our stay in STL, so I didn't get a chance to post anything, but here goes:
Thursday's competition was pretty boring. Don't even remember much.
Then Friday brought us Lindsey Jacobelis. It was worse than Leon Lett meeting Jean Van de Velde on the 18th fairway of Carnoustie wearing Chicago Cubs uniforms skating a Michelle Kwan routine. Did that girl who passed her remind anyone else of Mookie Wilson crossing the plate?
Yesterday's competition could have been the best televised Olympic days in years. I started it off by watching 4 hockey games. If anyone gets a chance to spend a day watching the hockey competition, it's worth it. The games end in two hours, the teams are playing with passion and the goaltending is off the charts.
Then there was some good biatholon-cross country skiing stuff, including the Frenchman's upset in biatholon. France could have used that guy before they rolled over for Germany in '41.
Last night's coverage had nothing but solid events, too. Two man, followed by Janica's inevitable triumph, followed by short track, followed by men's skiing, followed by long track, followed by Ohno choking again, capped off with the large hill! All great events.
Now Ohno. He quit skating. And though I personally needed his bronze, he showed no commitment to winning the gold whatsoever. Poor showing. And, his best buddy Shani Davis acted like a chump during his interview, too. Too bad, cause being from Evanston, I want to like Shani, but I just don't think I can.
Bode. Typical. I'll give Bode credit, every race is a different mistake.
TODAY'S MEDALSGold Janica. Duh.
Silver Kjetil Andre Aamodt. The baby shark adds a gold at age 34 to go with his two at 30 and one when he was 20 way back in Alberville. A win for us old folks.
Bronze Martin Gerber. He stopped something insane like 48 shots in a shutout of Canada. It was the definition of standing on one's head.