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You may have missed.... USA's first gold

posted by LHiggs, a Women Talk Sports blogger
Monday, February 15, 2010 at 10:52am PST

About LHiggs:

Former competitive fast-pitch softball player and dancer turned steeplechaser with a best finish of 2nd in the NCAA mile and a finalist in the 2008 Olympic Trials 3000m steeplechase...more

A friend of mine (male) gathered a relatively large group of friends in his relatively small studio on Saturday night with one purpose in mind: to watch the Women's moguls be contested at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. This is exciting, right? This is what we want, a group of people sitting down in front of the TV together to watch women's sports.

They watched the qualifing run, where the object of their attention, Hannah Kearney, safely qualified for the final competition. The party then eagerly awaited the ultimate point of the competition - the run for gold - to see how the actual medal contest rounded out.

And they waited.

Well, it turns out that due to the recent fatal accident on the luge course, the luge is now much more interesting to the general public. So, the luge won.

And we missed live coverage of the USA's first gold medal.

So, if you missed reading about it on the back page of the sports section (which is where I first noticed it, in a Seattle newspaper that my fellow passenger on Virgin America loaned to me), you watch it HERE.

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Olympics, Winter Games

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AnnGaff

Dang. Moguls are amazing to watch. Thanks for the link, Higgs.

Monday, February 15, 2010 at 11:25pm PST

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