Another exciting day in Sochi! Stacey worked in the morning at COH and Mikaela was at the MPC. With Patrick Chan winning another silver the night before, it meant a busy day of press conferences and interviews at the MPC. Patrick came in for a press conference in the afternoon and is a great guy. He is so down to earth and sincere and Mikaela even got a picture with him! Then men's hockey team coaches also had a press conference in the morning. Babcock is a pretty funny guy and was able to have a good time with the media. There was also a frenzy around the office with media needing tickets for the USA vs Russia hockey game. And what a game it was, Russian fans weren't the happiest after that event.
After our shifts, we headed up to the mountains to watch some skeleton finals. Doug and Lisa were working in the evening so it was just Mikaela and Stacey who went. We got up to the mountains easily and had some time to walk around before the event. We ran into the wife of the Canadian ski jumping coach who we met at the men's moguls. We hung around with them for dinner and even visited the Canada house located in the mountains. Its a different vibe than the one in the main park and is much quieter and more serene.
We got up to the sliding center by the gondola, which is much more fun than taking the bus. However it was pretty dark and we were unable to get any pictures of the view. The competition itself was interesting. Skeleton isn't the easiest sport to watch and a lot of it is watching the screens but the atmosphere was enough! We decided that if we had to be a winter Olympic athlete we would be a skeleton athletes because the sport seems the most intense. And who wouldn't want to slide head first down a winding track going about 130km/h???
The Russian athlete (or skeletor as we called them), won gold and the entire stadium exploded. Since it wasn't a Canadian who won we were glad it was Russia and it was awesome seeing the way they reacted and how proud they were. Its what we imagined Vancouver to be.
After the ride back to the costal cluster we met up with Lika as it was her last night before heading home. It was terrific meeting someone so kind and also a weird feeling knowing we could never see her again. Fingers crossed we met again soon (and in the world of sport).
No comments:
Post a Comment