The Games are here. Where’d the winter go?
The weather atop Blackcomb has been a tad schizophrenic today—ice rain at noon followed by temperatures so balmy that a quartet of American fans at The Whistler Sliding Centre has basically stripped to nothing but face paint and bras as they lean over the luge track. Nice visibility, but terrible prospects for tomorrow, when the men’s downhill is scheduled.
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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