January 2010
61 posts
Johnny Klister Media Files: Newell in the NYT →
Ready Start!...just kidding.
Garrott Kuzzy gets in fist fight with Olympic...
“She had not been caught doping - she had been expelled from the team for being...”
– Russian National head coach Yury Charkovsky on the expulsion of Alena Sidko from the Russian Olympic team. She has since been caught doping. (classy coach, classy athlete)
Coaches Meetings: A Review
1. Serve food and / or drinks.
2. Have an agenda ahead of time. Follow it.
3. Don’t repeat yourself. Seriously, don’t repeat yourself.
4. Thank your staff. (Once.) Thank your sponsors. (Once.)
5. Answer every question regardless of how obvious.
6. Print out copies of start lists, weather reports and course maps ahead of time.
7. If you need a microphone, use it.
8. “There’s no skiing...
170 Additional Spots Given to US for Olympic...
PARK CITY, UT - In an unexpected turn of events, nearly every team ahead of the US on the quota selection declined to use any of their allotted spots for the Vancouver Games, allowing a glut of one hundred seventy (170) positions to be afforded to the US. Spirits are high in Park City. “We’re taking the athletes we feel have a chance at success.” Described John Farra in a...
Games On.
“Waiting to hear if you made the Olympic team is just like those three
weeks...”
– -via Stinson’s phone conversation with a skier very much in the mix.
“Nice to see people in Park City still rockin’ the 2002 Roots beret....”
– AJ (via Twitter)
“The next 18 days include 9 race days, plus travel to Bozeman, Munich, Zurich,...”
– Abi Holt on her travel schedule. (via Facebook)
(click here) Nordic skiing as its very own overt... →
All New. The Johnny Klister CS Index
The Johnny Klister Compartment Syndrome Index measures the national intensity of cross country skiing though the number of untreated cases of compartment syndrome.
The current index through January 2010 is: 7.5
Email johnnyklister@gmail.com if the heat of the season (remember Cologna’s fart poster) is too much for your shins to handle.
“I’m pretty sure it’s going to be one of those shaved Polar Bears in...”
– The last overheard at US Nationals, in response to the question “Who’s gonna win today?”
“If you are going to Alaska you should just go on penicillin
immediately. Get...”
– Overheard at Carr’s grocery store
“Holly eats you girls for breakfast.”
– Fan at yesterday’s race. (classy.)
“I spent the whole race wanting to vomit but not because I would have had...”
– Overheard at US Nationals.
