Feb 28 2010
Sunday afternoon would have been a great time to shop as virtually every Canadian and every TV was tuned to the biggest game in the history of hockey: Canada vs. USA. This one game was worth the millions spent by Canada on the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Since the announcement of Vancouver in July, 2003, [...]
Feb 25 2010
Billy Demong leads Johnny Spillane into the stadium on the bell lap (Tom Kelly) The Olympics both creates memories for the future and evokes flashbacks to the past. Thursday was a veritable stream of touchpoints as the most remarkable medals of the Games were earned when Team USA took complete control over the nordic combined [...]
Feb 24 2010
Tom, DC and Peter Two years ago yesterday, our friend Paul Robbins passed away. The day before, in one of his proudest moments, he conducted the Lindsey Vonn media teleconference when she won her first Audi FIS World Cup title the day before on the Olympic course at Whistler Creekside. Paul would have loved these [...]
Feb 24 2010
Japan has always been one of my favorite places – such a unique culture. While you might not think of it, the Japanese are rabid fans of winter sport. I had seen that in 1985 when I took a group from my Worldwide Nordic USA adventure travel company to Sapporo and attending the 1993 World [...]
Feb 23 2010
Olympic silver for Billy Demong, Johnny Spillane, Todd Lodwick and Brett Camerota. There have been many historic medals in the last 11 days. Hannah Kearney kicked it all off on Day 1. Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn etched their names into the history books with Olympic gold, and Seth Wescott became the first American skier [...]
Feb 21 2010
A happy Bode Miller celebrates one of his best performances ever. (U.S. Ski Team/Tom Kelly) Minutes after crossing the finish line, Bode Miller chatted with Olympic silver medalist Christin Cooper on NBC. “When I passed the (finish) line, I stood for a second and I was like ‘That was unbelievable, I can’t ask for anything [...]
Feb 21 2010
There was a daily ritual in Lillehammer during the 1994 Olympic Winter Games. At the small ski resort of Hafjell, just a few clicks north of the village, each day in late afternoon the chairlifts would fill with cross country skiers. At the same time, it was one of the more convenient ways for us [...]
Feb 20 2010
Tonight was the night we learned there are more than two words to the Canadian national anthem. Tonight was the medals ceremony for John Montgomery, the toast of Canada. Friday night in skeleton at the Whistler Sliding Centre he became the third Canadian to win gold but first in Whistler. You couldn’t even get close [...]
Feb 19 2010
On a rainy night in Cypress, 18 years after her own gold in Albertville, Donna Weinbrecht poses with gold medalist Hannah Kearney. Few people had heard of Albertville. But everyone knew Jean-Claude Killy, who swept all three alpine skiing gold medals in 1968 at Grenoble. Just a short distance away in France’s Savoie was a [...]
Feb 14 2010
I’ve been privileged to be in the finish area for some amazing athletic moments in my life. Some of those images are forever etched in my mind. The past few weeks have brought many of them to the forefront – more in the nordic sports than any other. Like the day in December, 1995 when [...]