winter woe-lympics

In case you missed it, and props to you if you did: US speedskaters Shani Davis and Chad Hedrick didnt hug after their 1,500-meter final... at the winter olympics, this amounts to high drama... hugging ... Lacking sport -- or at least what most of us recognize as sport -- the winter games go for theatre... who's hugging? Who's not? Is he. . .crying? What lame excuse did Bode Miller offer today? Let's watch the Italian skating couple, to see if they hug. After their stumbling the other night, they didnt speak to each other. Let's see tonight if they. . . cry. While Bryant Gumbel did make a fool of himself the other night -- Shani Davis, winner of a gold and a silver, is very much a black athlete -- Gumbel was on the mark with the rest of it. I don't know how my colleagues in Turin do it, but they manage to write with authority and apparent passion about activities they know little about and, as a rule, care less about... maybe that's why the summer games are more about sports and the winters are more about hugs... everyone understands hugging.