martinimade

"I stopped feeling jaded from the moment we approached the ski jump and I spotted a tiny dot sliding down a huge ramp. The dot separated from the end of the ramp and floated out over the mountain. Floated and floated, and each time I thought that surely it must come down it just kept on floating. I've watched ski jumps on TV, but the footage somehow doesn't capture the utter defiance of physics taking place. Put it this way: I involuntarily held my breath for the duration of each ski jump I witnessed in person. I do not hold my breath when I watch a ski jump on TV."

-- From Seth Stevenson's dispatch from the Vancouver games. (His dispatch on the snowboard cross and curling (two of my favorite winter sports) is equally awesome. Also awesome were the Danish curling women's uniforms. I want to live a life where I can wear that everyday.)