It’s no secret that Mother Nature clearly hasn’t taken her
meds in months. She’s a crazy, bipolar mess. How is it that the current
temperature in Sochi Russia, the host of the2014 winter Olympics, is 60 degrees
and I am snowed in my apartment in Washington, DC where it’s a freezing 30
degrees?
Maybe all my sports excitement has been frozen because I’m
just not as into these winter Olympic games. And I don’t think I’m the only
American sports fan who feels this way.
Going into the winter games I was excited to watch three
athletes; Shaun White, Lindsey Vonn, and Lolo Jones. White placed 4th,
FOURTH! And was unable to make a three-peat for gold in the men’s halfpipe event.
Vonn announced a week before the games started that she would not be able to
compete do to a reoccurring knee issue.
Jones doesn’t compete until the 19th.
Let’s be honest, we’ve heard more coverage on how
embarrassing the facilities and overall operations of Sochi have been less than
impressive than we’ve heard on the actual games. How does a host city and the
Olympic committee let this happen?
I’m starting to wonder if Sochi was a real place before or
did Russia just make it up to host the Olympics? Seriously, according to my
1998 World Atlas, Sochi doesn’t exist.
You don’t need a Russian Spy to find out that snow is
required for most of the winter events. American snowboarder, Hannah Teter
described Sochi as “the worst pipe I’d ever ridden in my life.” Mark Adams, a
spokesman for the International Olympic Committee insisted that on last
Wednesday it was "a little bit premature" to be worrying about the
weather conditions. "It doesn't seem to be an issue.” Isn’t it the IOC’s
job to worry about weather conditions?
There have been numerous reports of the massive amount of
stray dogs that are just roaming around the city of Sochi. Athletes are even
trying to rescue the canines from being killed by city contractors. American
slopestyle skier, Gus Kenworthy, is bringing home a silver medal and four stray
puppies!
The five Olympic rings were supposed to transform from
snowflakes to the Olympic rings and then into fireworks. However, the top right
snowflake never altered into a ring, and the pyrotechnics never happened. The
man responsible for technical issues, Boris Avdeyev, was found dead in his
hotel room with multiple stab wounds the next day. But, in typical Vladimir
Putin fashion the mistake was not shown on Russian television and the cause of
death has been listed as “accidental.”
I have no idea how much it cost to host the Olympics, or if
it is really a financial gain to host the games, but when I see counting
mistakes in basic math like this, (see image below) I have major concerns for
the accuracy of those in Russia’s accounting and treasury departments.
But at the end of the day, I love a country that serves vodka as the soup of the day!
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