I’m rejoined by my travel partners from this 2-week Olympic journey through Italy, my wife, Carol, friend, Tim, and his wife, Tracey.
After spending the first several days of our trip in Dolomites for a pair of events (Men’s Singles Luge and Mixed-Doubles Curling Semifinals) we made our way to Milano – Italy’s second largest city – for four more events (Ice Dancing Free Dance and medal ceremony, Canada-Czechia men’s hockey, Short Track Speedskating, and Women’s Ice Hockey Semifinals).
As one might expect in a city whose metropolitan area population totals close to 6.5 million, there was a distinctly different vibe for the events in this area than what we experienced in Cortina (year-round population of about 5,500).
Of note, I’ve been placed in Meta jail by the bots that overlook the Zuckerburg family of social media (Facebook, Insta, and Threads) thanks to a 20-second clip I posted Monday from the USA-Sweden Women’s Hockey Semifinal. (Apparently, the International Olympic Committee considered that Copyright Infringement. With that, I’ll still post on Twitter/X (gulp:-( and BlueSky.