The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/olympics/)
“That year at Cornell gave me so much perspective in my life, both academically and athletically,” Chen said. “I think I grew the most in that one year at Cornell. Just being in that unfamiliar situation helped me grow as a person, and therefore as an athlete and a skater.”
Seven Cornellians – six athletes and a coach – will compete in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
While five Cornellians represented the United States at this year’s Summer Olympic Games, Taylor Knibb ’20 and Kyle Dake ’13 each managed to find their way onto the podium.
Five Cornellians will join Team USA at the Tokyo Olympics this month.
Karen Chen ’23 isn’t letting the pandemic slow her down. After placing 4th at the World Figure Skating Championships, she is training for a spot on the U.S. women’s Olympic team.
Dear Mayor Myrick,
I hope your February break has been going well. It’s been a few weeks since I saw you driving through the Commons. I waved at you, but you pretended not to notice. I’m going to act like that never happened, because I have bigger issues that I want to address today. Since the last time we’ve met, I’ve been watching a lot of this Winter Olympics — dozens of sports that I never knew existed two weeks ago have now consumed my entire life.
As we speak, college students worldwide pull out their shotskis and ice luge molds in celebration of the most riveting quadrennial exercise in patriotism, team spirit, and demolition of self-worth—the Winter Olympics. This year’s games are being held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, a city of 40,000, of which only 35.6% were interested in the Winter Olympics, according to a survey taken last April by the South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. While the Games have proceeded swimmingly and the drone light show/technical precision/flagbearers (I’m looking at you, Tongan flag man) of the opening ceremony were spectacular, the potential $13 billion price tag for this year’s Olympics has raised some questions, particularly as Rio, host of the 2016 Summer Olympics, still faces $40 million in debt. Between Rio and Montreal, which took 30 years to pay off debt from its 1976 Olympic Games, a valid question can be raised: why do countries even want to host the Olympics? And when they do, how does it work out for them economically?
All five players were teammates on the 2011-2012 Cornell team, which took a 30-5 season all the way to the national semifinals.
“I obviously realized I was representing the U.S., but I had no idea the meaning that it meant to the Jewish community, so it was really, really special.”
Jon Anderson ’71 reflects on winning the Boston Marathon and competing in the 1972 Olympics.