Run, Karla, Run!

The Winter Olympics in Vancouver are over. It’s been a week now and I’m going through withdrawal. And it’s no wonder. The games were 17 days of adrenaline pumped action, jaw-dropping performances and perhaps the best climax in Olympic history.

I think Graham Watanabe, who competed for the U.S. in Snowboard Cross, summed up the excitement of the games best:

“Try to imagine Pegasus mating with a unicorn and the creature that they birth. I somehow tame it and ride it into the sky in the clouds and sunshine and rainbows. That’s what it feels like.”

I honestly couldn’t have said it better myself. Read the rest of this entry →

WHISTLER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — 1:20 pm: It’s Day 2 of competition and I’m coming to you from the Whistler Sliding Center. The second and final day of men’s singles luge competition has just gotten underway.

It’s rainy and dank here in Whistler. But the show must go on. So I’m coming to you from the Sliding Center’s Media Center. There are no tables out on the course and the viewing areas are standing room only and covered. While—unlike me—my computer is not made of sugar, it is made of many electrical bits that don’t like to get wet.

So unlike yesterday, I won’t be bringing you play by plays from the luge competition. But I hope I’ll be bringing you something just as good.

Welcome to my backstage media tour. Read the rest of this entry →