We start out bright and early….
- ...when Matt Lauer broke the self-imposed Peacock rule—No Spoilers.
- He announced that Julia Mancuso was the winner of an event within the first 10 seconds of the Today show, 14 hours before the event would actually be broadcast. Thanks NBC—I can skip watching that tonight.
- Luge is a sport where you do 99% of the work at the start, and the rest is basically gravity. It’s the Pinewood Derby of winter sports.
- Mogul Skiing is the preferred sport for chiropractors. I would think that athletes in this sport are in wheelchairs by age 40.
- You know curling is boring when they spend more time on the wacky pants the “athletes” wear than the actual competition.
- Mogul skier Alex Bilodeau has a readymade “up close and personal story” designed to tear at the heartstrings—a brother with cerebral palsy—who ends up winning Canada’s first gold medal in Vancouver.
- Short track skating, especially at the longer distances, looks ridiculous. They all skate like senior citizens until the very end of the race, when it’s a frantic dash for the finish. Apollo Anton Ohno does a good job in front of the mike, though.
More to come.