What to Do When It Rains on the Winter Games

New York’s freshly chosen guv, Kathy Hochul, stood center-ice on the legendary Lake Placid hockey rink on Thursday evening, inviting fourteen hundred professional athletes from about the globe to the thirty-first World University Games–Olympics for university children– winter version. Flags of the countries had actually been displayed on bobsleds, aerialists had actually come down on cords from the rafters, and also currently the Governor was beaming in the limelight. (I’m a long time citizen of the Adirondacks, and also obtained to see close as an honorary holder of the– electrical, renewable-powered– lantern.) The Governor paid tribute to the Miracle on Ice, from the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, when the startup American hockey group had actually beat the Soviet Union; she praised the neighborhood authorities that had actually assisted win greater than 5 hundred million bucks in federal government financing to recondition the community’s ski tracks and also bobsled runs; …