Posted by Tina
The New York Times reports:
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — The snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg is not someone to hold big ambitions or make grand plans. Before winning a qualifying event last month that helped send him to the Winter Olympics in slopestyle, he had not won a snowboarding competition since he was 11.
“A megadrought,” he called it.
And when he stood at the top of the course at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park on Saturday, he was not sure which tricks he would attempt. The one that mattered was one he had never attempted.
“I just kind of make things up,” he explained.
It was just another way that Kotsenburg, 20, is playfully different than most of his competitors, who have spent all winter perfecting runs that they imagined for months. And now Kotsenburg, from Park City, Utah, stands apart from the rest for the most unexpected of reasons. He has a gold medal, the first of these Games and the first in the debut of snowboard slopestyle in the Olympics.
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“Coming here and winning, I can’t even describe the feeling,” he said.
The photo’s at the NYT’s link are totally RAD!
Way to go, Sage!
And in other Sochi news, US bobsled team member Johnny Quinn has won the gold medal in the shower competition.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2014/02/08/US-bobsleigh-star-smashes-door-to-escape-Sochi-shower
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I had a feeling when I posted this it might turn funny!
This is what we have to look forward to if Obama’s transformation of the US is completed.
http://thechive.com/2014/02/06/conditions-at-the-sochi-olympics-are-badhilarious-32-photos/
Peggy the failure of big bureaucracy and bad leadership is evident. Bathrooms and infrastructure feature prominently.
I do have to congratulate the artisans and craftsmen that have completed work. The buildings are beautiful, tile and stonework very nice.
Haven’t seen pictures of their craftsmanship up close. The structural designs though are impressive.
With all of the alleged corruption talk going on I do hope the workers were paid and it didn’t line the pockets of just the elites and politicians.
Sochi cost $51B, $49B more than Salt Lake City Olympics:
http://nypost.com/2014/01/27/sochi-olympics-to-cost-51b-49b-more-than-salt-lake-city-games/
The American Conservative shares a relevant perspective. It’s the bureaucracy not the people of russia…it’s the long years of Marxism and tyranny…not the people.
Some of our journalists have been incredibly crass, insensitive and unthinking.
Isn’t that how they always attempt to portray the right in America?