The Olympics Are Not Weird Enough |
The Olympics Are Not Weird Enough
The Olympics Are Not Weird Enough
Mr. Handy is the author of “Hollywood High,” a history of teen movies, and “Balloon,” a picture book illustrated by Julie Kwon.
The Winter Olympics are a two-week ratings spectacle of patriotic hockey battles and figure skating kiss-and-cries, but in between, it’s nice that less glamorous, less sponsor-luring sports — whether biathlon or bobsled, skeleton or luge — finally have their moment too. Many of the competitors in these events train just as hard as Mikaela Shiffrin and Chloe Kim, but with only a fraction of the glory. Believe it or not, people curl........