First two golds awarded

And they both go to the traditional winter powerhouse of Germany. Michael Greis won gold in the men's 20k individual biathlon with silver and bronze going to Norway. Jay Hakkinen of the U.S. finished 10th, Lowell Bailey 27th, Jeremy Teela 51st and Tim Burke 58th.

Meanwhile, Germany's Georg Hettich won the men's gold in Nordic combined individual competition. Silver went to Austria and bronze to Norway. Top American finisher was Todd Lodwick in 8th. Bill Demong was 15th and Johnny Spillane 30th and Brett Camerota 38th.

Clearly, we're not a Nordic combined powerhouse. To my knowledge, the USA has never medaled in Nordic combined.

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#2 Comment from montsea
2/11/06 1:05 PM | Permalink

What time to the Olympics really start? Last night in New York City, we had to sit through training runs from 8 to 9:20 before anything significant began on NBC.

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#1 Comment from montsea
2/11/06 1:00 PM | Permalink

The coverage of the Olympics last night on NBC in New York City was atrocious. We had a party gathered together to watch the opening ceremonies. The coverage was supposed to start at 8 p.m., but all there was from 8 to 9:20 was the most boring series of repetitive training runs I ever saw. NBC was just exploiting us to sell ads to a big nothing. Then, finally, we got to see the parade of nations, which was all we wanted to see in the first place. But it was preceded and followed by the absolute worst "opening ceremonies" I have ever seen! Good grief, what ever happened to "the grandeur that was Rome"? The Italian performers were simply embarrassingly bad. (Except, of course, for Pavaratti.) Bottom line: Tell us the time when the real competitions start, not when the exploitative NBC coverage starts in New York.

Please, tell us what time the competitions really start, with the real competitors! Now theaters have to tell us the "real starting time" of the feature attraction, but there the previews aren't nearly as long as one hour, 20 minutes, with no commentary, and sometimes they show you previews of films you want to see. What is NBC trying to do except sell ads and bore us out of our skulls?

A. E. Graham
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