“In one of the most emotional victories of the Games, American Jim Shea won the men�s skeleton Wednesday. The third generation Olympian carried in his helmet the funeral card of his grandfather, a gold medalist in speed skating 70 years ago, who died four weeks before the Games.”
I don’t know about all these behind-the-scenes “emotional” stories that supposedly add drama to the Olympics. Speedskater Dan Jansen and his dying sister really set the stage for it several Games’ ago, and this year, NBC is looking under every rock for something similar.
Are they all variations of “Win one for the Gipper“? Or, as a friend of mine contests, are the networks aiming it the female viewership?