Loving the ‘Lympics
The world has come to Vancouver as the Winter Olympics are under way.
I usually just sit back and cheer for the Americans, but I have a different rooting interest this time around.
I traveled to Vancouver for work last November and shared a plane back with a bunch of athletes from around the world who will compete in bobsled, luge and skeleton over the next few weeks. In fact, I was one of the few people on the plane who did not voluntarily hurtle themselves down a sheet of ice for a living.
About five years ago, as we prepared for the last Winter Olympics, I wrote a column about how I thought I would fit in perfectly on the bobsled team. The only problem was that the guys who usually did that sort of thing were world-class athletes.