- Ivanka Trump, heading the Closing Ceremonies USA contingent, DID stand and clap for the unified Korean presence when they entered in the Parade of Athletes.
- Final Medal Count: Norway wins the table with more silvers, and breaks the record for total from USA in Vancouver with a total of 39. However, Germany coming a hair's-breadth short in the men's hockey means Canada from Vancouver now stands tied with Norway and Germany in PyeongChang with 14 golds in a single Olympics.
- Germany's run in the sliding events got them second in the total with 31. Canada was third with 11 gold and 29 total. USA found itself fourth with a gigantic second week, 9 gold and 23 total. Netherlands fifth with 8 gold and 20 total.
- The OAR was sixth total, tied with the hosts! 17. Only two gold, the two expected, for OAR.
- Very youth-oriented high-tech Closing Ceremonies, even with the Beijing presentation, making me wonder if this might be more like a League of Legends championship than the more traditional 2008 Opening...
- Thank you, once again, to the even-handed coverage of both the Olympic Broadcasting System, as well as Inside the Games -- as the latter now heads toward the Paralympics and the Commonwealth Games.
- After the OAR narrowly avoided the German "Miracle On Ice" (the Germans scored with 3:16 to go to seize a 3-2 lead, and it took a shorthanded goal in the last minute to gain overtime before the power-play victor), both OAR players and fans loudly sang the Russian National Anthem over the top of the Olympic Hymn, as a final show of defiance/
- The head of the committee overseeing the OAR sanctions admits that she had to change her Report of Findings so as not to implicate the disqualified Russian Olympic Committee in the two known doping cases already found by OAR in PyeongChang. (Inside the Games)
The truth is not what actually happened. It's what you can ENFORCE happened. It's ALL enforcement.
Sunday, February 25, 2018
The Nuclear Winter Olympics, Aftermath, Day +1
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