Grange blog: The IOC likes their Olympians a certain way
It’s because the Olympic movement is flush with people like Clara Hughes; who talk about the way sports and the pursuit of excellence through sports can have a redeeming quality that transcends the mindlessness of skating in circles – and then deliver, not only by providing inspiring athletic performance in the moment, but by sharing the rewards widely.
In 2006 Hughes donated $10,000 to Right to Play; this week Hughes donated her $10,000 bonus that came with her bronze medal to Take A Hike Foundation.
Some Olympic faves to fill empty feeling
Aside from those picturesque blue fences and the three-hundred-thousand security points, my sense is we’re all missing the Olympics. To help ease the pain, here are the always numbing Monday morning musings and meditations on the world of sports.
Is anyone else having this problem? You see Duncan Keith and Jonathan Toews playing Friday and you don’t see them as members of the Chicago Blackhawks., You see them wearing Team Canada jerseys.
The 'old lady' says bye with a bronze
Give her this much: Clara Hughes knows how to make an exit.
“I didn’t do too bad for an old lady,” she said on Wednesday after capturing a bronze medal in her swansong race, as the second oldest woman to medal in speed skating. At 37, only 2.2 seconds off a personal best set eight years ago in an absolute piledriver of a distance. At sea level, yet. On slow ice.
