I was born in 1955. I remember watching my first Olympics in 1960. In grade school we dove under our desks and watched movies about how to know when a nuke went off and what to do. As a young man in the military I looked across a fence at several million Soviets and East Germans who were just waiting to run me over. Even as a small boy I recognized that the 2 weeks of the Winter Olympics was a time when I could take a deep breath and not worry about dying at any moment in a flash of light and heat. The world gathered to play in the snow. It had an innocence, a willful naivete, about it. Even if it was pretend, it was important to the world that we made that pretense. For my entire life I felt that the true spirit of the Olympics was that it is a time when people set aside their political, cultural and religious differences and, through sports, celebrated their common humanity, until this year. Vonn, Rippon, Kenworthy, and Davis chose to use the honor of being on the US Olympic Team as a platform for their political views. It is certainly their right as Americans. In exercising their right, they have dishonored the Olympic Spirit. They have dishonored the handshake between North and South Korea. They have dishonored their teammates. They have dishonored their country. They have dishonored the thousands of other athletes who have gathered there in the true Olympic Spirit. They have dishonored the 33,471 American men and women who died in Korea so they can have a free and prosperous place to play. But most importantly, they have dishonored themselves. And that may be the most lasting damage of all. As for me, they have forever stained mankind's one, last refuge.
Mikael Kingsbury, Justine & Chloe Dufour-Lapointe... Why doesn't this channel ever mention Canadians even when they are major contenders for gold, world record holders etc.?
it's hilarious. The channel is "Olympic" not "Olympic USA" They should be showing the best of every even evenly instead of showing 4 Americans in every video and piecemealing the rest from random countries lol.
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I was born in 1955. I remember watching my first Olympics in 1960. In grade school we dove under our desks and watched movies about how to know when a nuke went off and what to do.
As a young man in the military I looked across a fence at several million Soviets and East Germans who were just waiting to run me over.
Even as a small boy I recognized that the 2 weeks of the Winter Olympics was a time when I could take a deep breath and not worry about dying at any moment in a flash of light and heat. The world gathered to play in the snow. It had an innocence, a willful naivete, about it. Even if it was pretend, it was important to the world that we made that pretense.
For my entire life I felt that the true spirit of the Olympics was that it is a time when people set aside their political, cultural and religious differences and, through sports, celebrated their common humanity, until this year.
Vonn, Rippon, Kenworthy, and Davis chose to use the honor of being on the US Olympic Team as a platform for their political views. It is certainly their right as Americans.
In exercising their right, they have dishonored the Olympic Spirit. They have dishonored the handshake between North and South Korea. They have dishonored their teammates. They have dishonored their country. They have dishonored the thousands of other athletes who have gathered there in the true Olympic Spirit. They have dishonored the 33,471 American men and women who died in Korea so they can have a free and prosperous place to play.
But most importantly, they have dishonored themselves. And that may be the most lasting damage of all.
As for me, they have forever stained mankind's one, last refuge.
Mikael Kingsbury, Justine & Chloe Dufour-Lapointe... Why doesn't this channel ever mention Canadians even when they are major contenders for gold, world record holders etc.?
Because its an American run channel and they are bitter than we have a chance against them in the winter games
it's hilarious. The channel is "Olympic" not "Olympic USA" They should be showing the best of every even evenly instead of showing 4 Americans in every video and piecemealing the rest from random countries lol.
Not to mention the only Olympic team channel they have on their friends list is team USA. How more obvious can you be with your favoritism
Nice video
Um, where's Mikael Kingsbury who has the most world cup golds in moguls skiing and came in 2nd in Sochi in moguls?
TBH I didn't expect Australia to be in 3rd place in the ranking. Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!
Here bfore 100
Come on, Gus and Brittany!
HI
It is not Russian subtitles
in sochi 2014 chinese aerials skiers were just destroyed by Belarus and Australia lol :)
today, 16.02 Hanna Huskova of Belarus won gold medal in freestyle skiing
EARLY!!!
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