la dolce vita
Summing Up Day 5
China's Zhang Dan, with her injured knee wrapped, is given a lift by her partner Zhang Hao.
(By Kevork Djansezian -- Associated Press)
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It's a dangerous place, Turin. It's no Armstrong Ranch, but still. They've been dropping like flies around here.
First and most famous was Michelle Kwan, who came with a groin injury and apparently acquired another one. Buy one, get one free, maybe? We'll never know.
That started an avalanche of ambulance rides and helicopter trips to various hospitals in the area. We who ride the media buses believe it's all an elaborate ruse to avoid the traffic, and we admire the heck out of that.
On Monday, four women hit the deck in the downhill, including American Lindsey Kildow, who may try to ski today nonetheless. U.S. luger Samantha Retrosi took a tumble -- when the sled is riding you, that's not good -- as did several others, both Monday and yesterday. Grandma Luge broke her wrist -- though thankfully, not her hip. Come on, with a name like Grandma Luge, you gotta expect that thought to occur to people.
Chinese pairs skater Zhang Dan hit the boards hard Monday night but got up and started skating again. We thought she might hoist her leg onto the judges' table and begin caterwauling about the unfairness of it all, but no dice. Ah, how we miss Tonya.
U.S. snowboarder Jason Hale messed up his knee in training on a jump called Wu-Tang; another Olympic dream cut tragically short by rap.
Janica Kostelic, one of the very best in the world, is under the weather for today's women's downhill. Defending aerials champ Ales Valenta of the Czech Republic also was injured in practice yesterday. Russian hockey player Olga Permyakova was carried off the ice with a head injury.
Norway's Nordic combined team -- Isn't that a little redundant? Shouldn't they just be THE Nordic combined team? It's their world, people, we're just livin' in it -- pulled out of today's team event because four of them are sick. Four Norwegians who are too sick to strap on a pair of skis and go for a stroll? Those are some sick Norwegians.
Even the sweet life was somewhat disrupted when we began oozing blood from a keyboard-related finger cut while browsing the Media Center newsstand, but a quick-thinking tourniquet from a clever clerk saved our favorite lime fleece.
That was close! Grazie, signorina !
Two guys who didn't crash, or fall, or tip over, or come down with the vapors, were Ted Ligety and Johnny Weir.
Surprise, NBC! Maybe that will help the ratings, which we understand are also crashing.
MARIE REINE'S DAY: Began hand-lettering her campaign signs for her run at the presidency of the French figure skating association later this year.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I think this will live with me for the rest of my life."
U.S. biathlete Jay Hakkinen , who missed five straight targets in the 10km event yesterday, a first, and finished 80th.
