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Olympics a cold shot
to big American egos
FROM THE
SIDELINES
HESaEZZSI
The Winn r Olympus
an* over
Personally. ! don't know
how to rc.ii t to th.it
Th.' Winter Ols ;:•!■. S .ire
about .is interesting to rt.ie its.
oli. I -don't know , that r. Ng.m.s
ihule who preaches his g ispei
ami holds tip his signs, on i am
pus
However, that's not in sa\
c erlain aspects of the Olympics
were not interesting
l.el me start with someone I
used to be proud of knowing
Tonya Harding
1 wetit to junior high s. bool
vs ith !larding W e wet'en I great
friends, hut we w ere a. .plain
lain es I remember tuns hard
we all used lo laugh ai her
when she would sav she would
he m the Olympic s somedav
W ell. she proved us V\ !. a
1 don't quite understand Hat
ding hveryone knows about
her showing up m i ranee a
couple oi days before her per
lor Illum e while the pust id the
An a .fir .m skaters arrived weeks
in advance it seems as though
Harding just doesn’t want to do
the vs. :k to get lo tile next lev
id She is obviously not the
easiest person to get along with,
as her rotating trainers will at
test to
It's no ai indent that Nani \
Kerrigan ami Kristi N .,u,.ig... in
were the ones w ho came home
with the medals
Women's ligure skating is tia
i: 11 on all v the pi.de ■1 the
Olympics The elegance arid
puin- these young women pro
dune on the ite is the most cap
t., at mg of all the ev ents
This visit I would have :.11ti ■ r
.. , ■ : ..,1 Vli m- M.mtti.i i r.'
■ i\ block liric Lind: s into
1 ■ -,s all .eld get a sti. k it! t!:• •
i ruli h Al least that would bo
11,.11«■ elegant and grat >• IuI than
ti. • t.sjlla V til’- liitun- sk iters
put till
! think ri rrs > it . bit till
ha: I t. at la i-.i < r. e ;u ' '-i-i
inji , ullipelttion It was (lilt a
pretty sight
; In- I ’ S hut key t-- .m !• k
— of us ha k t ■ I nan !. .
pin of da Vs before lulling it) tin'
Unified Team
I'm not .i big I’.t-- k-. t (an. but
every lour \tars I find myself
relearning tlif ruh-s ol htxkey.
answering questions like
\\ hat the hoi I IS n mgT' and
'What oxac tls is grounds tor
sending a player to 11.• - penaltv
box
The United St.ites did show .i
lai k of ( lass after losing to the
Unified Team by blaming the
loss on the referees, they did
gel tint reputation .is the "Bud
Bovs" of the tournament, and
some Amt-m ans seem dis
turbed by that
But i:unw on. the rest of the
world hides us already 1 don t
think heaving bottli!s bank at
the Swedish fans who threw
them m the first plant! is any
lug deal
So the Americans were arro
gant I didn't set! anyone getting
nil Ad-erto Tomha s i .iso when
ho said In w .is going h> s’ii par
•|\ with live habes iip.or w inning
tin- gold
i'-umha i rat ked mr up That
It Sir ge M it li.ro! I. .t k a!ike ;s
quite a guy
The Italian wins tvs .1 gold
nro.ials a:; skiing and then says
in was glad to win a silver and
wants a hroo/e to t tnpleto ins
1 ollot tmn
I'h.it
Bonnie Blair is anything hut
"
Tho S speed skater quietly
w :i tw 0, nil-rials Ulti W as
the tin i s Ane-rii an to w in nul l
tiple medals
T'lie ( Tttli'd States did not do
ail that had Shis soar Wo an
no! a winter 1 uiintr v W e I- 1
si.allv did what Was i-\pei ti ll
id Us at the Olympics: linish to
w aid the 11:;.i 1! 11 ol tin- pat k as
tar as medals go. have some
strong porlurniant.es and some
w.-ak. pel loi mam es, and hnaI
K plovo the United States has
an attitude
Mi st Aiiii-iu ans do not 1 aro
all tli it min h ai-out t'e- Wm.;-r
()Iv mp; s hi-trauso they know
the United States -will not he
near the top ol the heap i In■ \
are lair weather Ians who could
i an- less that the Olyinpe s will
now he heli! every two years
insu-ad id lour
Americans would much rath
er watt for the summer games
when the- United States has a
chance to dominate the medal
count
It's all pis! part of the atii
tudo
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