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...

The XXIII Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang County, South Korea were, in my opinion, one of the best Winter Olympics ever held. The South Koreans did a fantastic job of hosting the games, the Games were a major diplomatic and geopolitical victory for South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and there were plenty of surprising results and close finishes during the Games. Given that my own foreign policy views tend to be very isolationist by American standards, a lot of people reading this blog post would find it surprising that I have a strong interest in the Olympics. The Olympics are pretty much the only major exception to my isolationist foreign policy views because I view the Olympics as a sporting event instead of a diplomatic event like the World Economic Forum in Switzerland or events of that nature. Also, I take this opportunity to apologize to the Shibutani siblings and the rest of the U.S. Olympic figure skating team. I claimed in a blog post before the Games that the U.S. wasn...