Well, the Winter Olympics are over, and I can't help but feel a bit sad. I didn't get to watch as much as I would have liked. If you only had the basic NBC coverage, you had to make do with the crumbs that were tossed to you. Apparently, the best coverage for US viewers was on Peacock, which we don't have. Never mind, I would pick up my phone and type in "Medal count" and it would display the countries and show the medals won by each country! In my last post, I said it looked as if Great Britain would win a gold medal, and they did! In fact, they ended up winning five medals- three gold, one silver and one bronze. Did you see that Tom Daley, a fellow British Olympian knitted Matt Weston a little pouch for his gold medals? (Tom Daley is an Olympic gold medalist in Diving AND a fantastic knitter/crocheter!) It tickled me that in the video that I saw, Matt Weston had his gold medals in a sock inside his pocket! Ha! That sounds just like a typical Brit to me!
Since I am from Georgia, I am very pleased to show you a video of Elena Meyers Taylor. I hope you can see it! (She and her family live in Douglasville, Georgia!) She won a gold medal at the age of 41! She is the mother of two little boys, and I hope you have seen some coverage of her with her husband and sons. I find her story not only admirable but very inspiring.
Alysa Liu won a gold medal in figure skating for the USA in a fantastic performance! You can easily see that on YouTube, but you might not have seen her throw out the first pitch at a baseball game in 2025! I have that for you above! Hey, she put her own special "spin" on it. I love it! Her life story is also pretty interesting. Her father is Chinese and came to this country after organizing and participating in the student protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. You may read more about her just here.
No gold medals here but I am happy to say that we do have pine warblers that visit us. This bird is gold enough for me!
Hope you are all doing well. There is a blizzard in the northeast just now in this country. I am grateful to be in the South. It is cold today (after last week having two days with the temps at 80 degrees!) but with bright sunshine, we consider ourselves lucky.
See if you can click on the link below! It is a cover of a Coldplay song. From our son! I love it, I can't stop singing it.
Golden!
The Hardest Part by Chris Guest
It was a good Olympics like you I caught bits and pieces.
ReplyDeleteI am far enough north we just got a dusting. Very fine by me Friday we got 6 inches.
Cathy
We had extensive coverage daily so I had to cherry pick the best bits. I was envious of the ability of the cross country skiers. I used to do that on club trips up north in winter but I was nowhere near that level of skill. The UK and Scotland did well for a country with very little real snow falling in winter to practice on these days.
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