The Olympics are almost 3/4 of the way through, and I definitely got a bit more sucked into watching this year than I thought I would. Last night was the ice dancing competition, with gold & silver taken by two couples who train in Canton, Michigan.
They both appeared so genuinely happy for each other. Quite the contrast from last week's men's competition when the Russian looked mighty peeved that Evan Lysacek "stole" the gold from him. And of course, it is so nice the Americans were natives of Michigan, too!
This past week also marked the thirtieth anniversary of the 1980 USA Gold winning game. And you forget, they beat the Soviets in the second-from-last game. They had to beat the Finns to take the gold. The advice was to win that gold, because not winning it would define them and they'd never live it down. Will the Americans take the gold again this year? It's a different kind of team, since it's not a bunch of nobodies, but NHL stars...but wouldn't it still be nice?
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