Great moments in placards
Leave it to the Brits to boil a word down to its diminutive essence and then take their shirts off. "Shelly on her belly winning gold in the skelly," read one sign, held aloft by a no-doubt hard-nippled group of cold English youngsters, a tribute to the sledding excellence of the UK’s Shelley Rudman. Rudman is seventh in the race after her third heat. "Skelly" and "belly," meanwhile, will soon become part of the lexicon at Masters and Johnson.
Nicholas Köhler is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Maclean’s, the South China Morning Post and The Christian Science Monitor, among other places. He has reported from around the world, including New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, northeast Japan after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, and more recently from Myanmar as it lurched toward democracy. You can reach him at nick@nicholaskohler.com.
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