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...have the best view ever. The big bay windows are massive." Jenna McCorkell, another skater, chimes in, "It's strange, coming into the Olympics, you don't know what to expect. The rooms are everything and better." Rave reviews from the Olympians, for sure. But the taxpayers of Vancouver may sharply disagree...
With just two days before the Winter Olympics are set to get under way in Vancouver, NBC officials should be celebrating the onset of a much needed prime-time-ratings boost. But now they may be cursing their continuing bad luck. That's because American skier Lindsey Vonn, the blond speed beauty whose quest for five medals over the two weeks of the Olympics was supposed to boost ratings to Michael Phelps-ian levels, might be forced to sit out these Games. (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...became a cultural pariah. Vonn is the anti-Bode, happily married to her skier husband and coach, dedicated to not disappointing all the mainstream sports fans who give skiing a quadrennial peek. In a strange twist, if Vonn drops out or drastically cuts back her schedule, the Olympic audience may have to turn to Miller for its violin-tinged tale of redemption. He came out of retirement this season to give the Olympics another shot and prove to the world he's not that...
...Unfortunately, her first scheduled event, the Feb. 14 super combined, mixes speed-heavy downhill racing, which won't require many twists and turns on a bruised lower leg, and slalom, which will. The injury may not cost her as much in the two races in which she is the heavy favorite, the Feb. 17 downhill and the Feb. 20 super-G. But if her shin is still sore after those races, she can almost forget about medals in the slalom and giant slalom, which are held during the second week of the Olympics. Yet another heartbreaking aspect of this story...
...make it feel better," she says. "And so far, it seems to be working pretty well. It seems to be getting progressively better every day." NBC would surely rather not have the fate of skiing golds riding on a magic slice of cheese, but at this point it may be the best they can hope...