Adequate. They got it done, but nothing spectacular. No ambience, but no major problems. |
I think this is a final decision for London. I imagine there could be some whining and complaining, but this was so definitive. The fact that they wouldn't even take a second vote at all is, I would say, a bad indication. |
In these two sports in particular, anything can happen on any given day. |
The day after the opening ceremony, when suddenly you have people competing for medals in every event. ... It's like real reality TV. We're not going to be talking about skeleton coaches the day after the opening ceremony. |
The U.S., in most sports, has a pure system for its Olympic selection process. First across the line, you're on the team. This is another story. Any time a sport or a federation chooses to choose its team with people voting — something other than a competition — that opens a lot of problems. |
When you do a team event at an Olympics, it's beyond the individuals involved. It's the whole country. |
Yes, you can, though. That's the point. If she had come up and said, 'Oh, gosh, I was doing what I always did and I really shouldn't have done that, oops,' it would have been over. |