party_pants said:

Divine Angel said:

party_pants said:

I know a bit more than that about it. But I don’t follow any of it these days. Snow and ice are just not a part of the local climate here, and mountains are not a part of the local geography. It is not the sort of sports that I can participate in.

I do know Steven Bradbury trained at my local skate rink. I think he’s a trainer or something there now.

I do know this about him. He was in his third winter olympics when he won that gold medal. At the two previous events he was one of the unlucky ones that knocked over in a crash and never won a medal. So third time lucky. Crashing and falling is common in the sport, so it takes a bit of luck sometimes to win a medal. Rather than just dumb luck, I think his medal is payoff for persistence and hard work over a decade, and probably thoroughly deserved, even if people mock him for the way he won it.

Yes.

Apparently it was all he wanted to do from when he was a little kid and his father took him to the rink. He wanted to be a speed skater.