Sports At Politics

Now, that the 2018 Winter Olympics, which was held last month, and 2018 Winter Paralympics, which was held earlier this month, are over, I'll wrap up the final part of this three-part review of Pyeongchang 2018 with some closing thoughts. For the second time ever, the Americans led the Paralympic medal count by both most total medals and most gold medals. In the Pyeongchang Paralympics, American athletes won 13 gold medals, 15 silver medals, and eight bronze medals, for a total of 35 total medals. Unusually for the Americans, a lot of the American Paralympic medals that were earned in Pyeongchang were earned in the sports of cross-country skiing and biathlon. A major highlight of the Paralympics for the Americans was when the American sled hockey team won its third consecutive Paralympic gold medal in an overtime thriller of a game against the Canadian team. While nearly all of NBC's television coverage of the Pyeongchang Paralympics aired on cable channels NBCSN and the Ol...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is the second blog post of a seven-part series of blog posts previewing the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea.

Let me make it inherently clear that Kim Jong-un is a brutal dictator who has repeatedly threatened global armageddon by threatening to use nuclear weapons against the United States, has killed his own relatives, and leads a brazenly corrupt and completely undemocratic regime. I am absolutely not, in any way, a supporter of Kim or his political philosophy, and Kim should never be, in any way, a role model for current or future leaders of our great country. In fact, there are some similarities between Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump. For example, Trump is probably the most authoritarian-minded person to ever be president in our great country, and Trump is already one of the most corrupt presidents in U.S. history. A pair of North Korean athletes qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics in pairs figure skating, although the North Korean Olympic committee did not officially enter the athletes prior to December 21, 2017, so any North Korean entry into the Olympics would be via...