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Friday, February 17, 2006

Okay, I have to admit it. I can’t watch any more sliding on ice. No luge, no bobsled, no skeleton. Thanks, but I’ll pass. I’ll watch the figure skaters but I’ve gone as far as I can go with the speed skaters. If you’ll save me from the fourteenth-place Americans and just let me watch the Austrians and Swiss, I’ll still take in a little skiing down mountains. Cross country? No thanks.

How about that? I’ve dismissed the efforts of about two-thirds of the world’s Olympic athletes, and it’s only been a week since the opening ceremony. Whatever I miss now, I’ll have to wait four years to see again. It’s not as if winter sports are readily available to a U.S. audience. And frankly, it’s not as if I’d watch it, even if it were, at least not with the same dedication I watch baseball and NASCAR.

Curling, now, that’s another matter. We’re getting at least six hours a day of full curling coverage, something we’ve never had before. If they would only keep it up after the Olympics, I’d gladly watch Saturday afternoon curling all year round. I’m soaking it up during these two weeks because I know that’s not going to happen. I know it will be 2010 before I get to see this much curling on U.S. TV again. It’s sad, but it’s true.

Even a dark winter day can end with a promise.

Once the Olympic games are over, I’ll be sorry I took such a cavalier attitude. I’ll wish I’d watched more of the women’s combined slalom and the compulsory ice dancing. But not more skeleton, I think. Probably not, because unless somebody skids face first into a wall, it all looks pretty much the same to me.

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The U.S. women’s hockey team’s shootout loss to Sweden today deprives us of the most anticipated match of the games, between the U.S. and Canada for the gold. But in the long run it’s probably a good thing for international women’s hockey, to get more nations into the top level. The Swedes did not expect to be playing for a gold medal, at least not this year. But that’s what will be on the line in their next game, because of the come-from-behind effort they put forth against a heavily favored team today. They will have to settle for the silver, because Team Canada is playing as well as expected (beating Finland, 6-0, in the other semifinal).

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