Day 6 of Milano Cortina 2026 was about legacy pressure and Olympic symmetry. Chloe Kim settled for silver as a 17 year old stole the halfpipe gold, Italy reshuffled its internal hierarchy with historic wins in speed skating and super G, and short track once again proved that chaos is the point. Read my iPINIONS… Read more.
Short Track
PyeongChang Olympics: Day 1 – What Shall I Watch, What Shall I Say?
Athletes will be competing in 102 events covering 15 sports over 16 days. Even though I will be very indiscriminate in my viewing (on TV and the Internet), I will be very discriminating in my commenting. For example, Curling is one of my favorite sports to watch, but it’s hardly worthy of commentary. Women’s 15km… Read more.
Sochi Olympics: Day 3
Women’s Super Combined I got a lot of fatuous, politically correct flak for declaring that it’s more exciting to watch men compete in Slopestyle than it is to watch women. Flak, incidentally, that made about as much sense as getting flak for declaring that it’s more exciting to watch men race down a regular slope… Read more.


