The Olympics are Over

My friend Derek has posted a great wrap-up on the Turino Winter Olympics. As he points out, this was a tough games to get drawn into… but there were some great moments. There were heros and zeros.

Athletes crash and fall. Some spectacularly, some on the verge of glory, some because of the elements. Like the old ABC montage said, the agony of defeat is part of the competition. In a strange and perverse way, this is why they are there. They are there to pick themselves up, and in the tradition of athletes before them and as will be followed by those who come after them, they pick themselves up and FINISH. [Read the rest]