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The Winter Olympics Turned Out to Be Entertaining and Educational
By: Eldon Ledoux
The U.S.A. Men’s Curling and Women’s Hockey teams both won gold medals defeating perennial powerhouse teams favored to have won gold along the way.
I am not a great fan of ice hockey on television. Now, live action is something else. When Baton Rouge had an East Coast Hockey League franchise, the Kingfish, Linda and I were frequent attendees. We even did a little freelance ad work for them and had press passes to the games for one season. I’ve still got a Kingfish ball cap.
In person, I could appreciate the fast pace and the fact that there is a lot going on away from the puck. It just doesn’t translate well to me on TV.
I don’t think there were too many surprises in how well we did in the acrobatic skiing and snowboarding and the insane events on the half pipe. I expected the American team to do well, since I think those sports pretty much originated and grew in the Colorado Rockies or the Sierra Madres of California. I could me mistaken.
Right or wrong, I’ve always equated those particular skills with a “Dude, I can do better than that.” one-upsmanship among friends in varying states of sobriety or sanity. Then again, I was a teenager in the late sixties and the cusp of the seventies, so in a way, I get it.
A pretty interesting thing about the men’s figure skating competition is that a Canadian former world champion who won silver in the 1988 Olympics, losing to Brian Boitano, is now a world class figure skating coach. Brian Orser had numerous students from several countries in the competition. In fact, he coached the Japanese skater who took gold and the bronze medalist from Spain.
That really has to be the completed circle of a remarkable career; the talented athlete becoming a successful coach. Reminds of Jimmy Johnson who played on a national championship football team at Arkansas, and coached the Miami Hurricanes to a college championship as well as the Dallas Cowboys to a Super Bowl Victory.
Had you told me a month ago I would become a fan, albeit a fan from a distance, of Olympic Curling, I would have probably shared a good laugh with you.
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