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Farewell (for now) to PyeongChang

Experts will tell you that the high-pressured setting of the Olympics’ global stage is like no other. It can make the favorites fall and rise again and the dark horses surge to the front of the finish line.

That was certainly the case of the magical two weeks in PyeongChang, whose motto might’ve been “Expect the unexpected.”

It was a time when America lost its record for most medals in the Winter Games (37, Vancouver) to Norway (brilliant with 39) while setting a new record for medaling in the greatest number of different events (11). So what Team USA sometimes lacked in depth, particularly in the glamour sports of alpine skiing and figure skating, it made up for in breadth ...

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Patriot Games

Boy, nothing says gesture politics – if I were less Jane Austenian, I would say F--- you politics – quite like skipping a major event, and when the event is the Olympics, well, the gesture is big-time.

So President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will not be going to Sochi in a diss to anti-gay Russian prez Vladimir “Rootin’ Tootin’” Putin. Obama has also appointed Billie Jean King and two-time ice hockey Olympian Caitlin Cahow, both openly gay, as U.S. representatives to the games to underscore his point.

Some say there’s no place for politics in sports. Perhaps, but it’s there… Read more

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