Word: ohno
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...world is spared 10,000 more "Oh No!" headlines. (I fear 10,000 "Oh Yes!" variations are being inked even now.) The better news is, justice was done and as fine a 19-year-old sportsman as the world knows was awarded his rightful prize. Apolo Anton Ohno, speed skater, dude, fun kid, icon, superstar of the highest water, was escorted to the top step of the podium thanks to a DQ, it is true. But if you were there in the arena - and even if you didn't understand short track - it was evident in the last lap: Ohno...
...hear the howls from Korea even now, carrying across the Pacific and swooping low over Northern California before resounding off the Wasatch range. Spare me, and spare young master Ohno. "I feel bad for the Korean," said my neighbor in the press section. "He was already taking his victory...
...love Ohno so? It is, only in small part, because of all that we read in the Olympic run-up stories. His dad - his parent - put him on a plane to a speed skating camp, but Ohno didn't make the trip, hanging instead with his buddies in Seattle. His dad, Yuki, put him on the plane again - sitting in the next seat, this time - and this time Ohno got to the camp, and to the coach, that would change his life...
...before the Games, no matter what we read, few of us knew Ohno. Now, we feel, we know him like a brother/son/pal. It's because of that 1,000-meter race last week, when the great sprawling crash in the last lap took everyone out, Ohno included, and allowed Steven Bradbury of Australia to cruise home free. Everything Ohno did and has done after falling has revealed him as a great athlete and wonderful competitor and sportsman...
...skated his heat and semifinal, finishing second in each, barely taking his hands off his back. He skated an Ohno final, pushing, teasing, waiting, stalking, moving. And then he couldn't move; everyone saw it. It was all the Korean could do to . . . finish first. If not to win, at least to feel first...