Wow! There's a link to my page at www.Rusty-Smith.com. Rusty is a short track speed skater, who won a bronze medal at the 2002 Olympic games (and who is also VERY cute). For those of you that don't know what short track skating is, it's a much more energetic little brother of long track speedskating, made popular by Dan Jansen and Bonnie Blair. There was a lot publicity for the sport surrounding the controversial (yet also very cute) Apolo Anton Ohno. Think of it as the X-Games version of long track speed skating. 4 or 5 people skating at 35mph on one millimeter blades. There's falls. People hit the boards really hard. Sometimes there's blood. First one to the finish line wins. Unless you're disqualified. It's a lot of fast paced action. Really great to watch. It'll be on ABC on the 13th, check it out!

Posted by Yano at April 9, 2002 03:42 PM