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A few other random notes:
• Korean speed skaters won both the men’s and women’s 500-meter sprints (only one non-Asian medaled in those events). Quite an achievement for a country that was a basket case before it was awarded the 1988 Summer Olympics. I still don’t think Pyongyang should be awarded the games any time soon, however, even if the NoKos throw a good party for their Crazy Tyrant Dear Leader…
• The trendy part of Vancouver is a neighborhood called Yaletown. Yaletown? As a Princeton alum, I take more offense at this than anything else I’ve seen here, including both zambonis somehow having broken down at the Richmond Olympic “Slowval” the other day…
• The athletic highlight of the games thus far has to be Johnny Spillane’s silver medal in the Nordic combined—that’s ski jumping plus cross-country skiing for those of you who aren’t Scandinavian. This is the sporting equivalent of Finland coming second in the Baseball World Cup. A close second is today’s 1-2 finish in the women’s downhill by Americans Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso. The next time my shins are sore, I certainly won’t be complaining.
Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, wrote his master’s thesis at the London School of Economics on the transformation of the Olympics in the post-Cold War era. He is filing periodic dispatches for The Daily Caller from and about the 2010 Winter Games.
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