Feb 26, 2006
Sweden’s best winter olympics ever
The Winter Olympics in Turin turned out to be the best ever for Sweden, with fourteen medals won with seven gold, two silver, and five bronze. All gold-medals are of course amazing in and of themselves but I would think that many Swedes especially appreciate the gold in ice hockey from yesterday. Sweden managed to beat Finland 3-2.
I’ve been much less interested than usual in the olympics this time. One reason is probably being out here “in the desert”, so to speak, doesn’t exactly lend itself very well to getting excited about winter sports. Sure there’s an indoor ski slope in Dubai, but still… Another reason is that the Turin olympics have not been broadcast here, well, at least not on any channel we get. We have some expanded cable package with some 120 channels or so and it’s not on any of those. So all we’ve been able to see are snippets online. I don’t know if this is the case with summer olympics as well, but I would think not, since there are nationals that compete there.
Update: Crystal found a nice article from Sports Illustrated.
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