The town of Inzell Germany was great. I think every ski town in North America is a rip off of the towns in the mountains of Europe. Inzell is a great town that reminds me a lot of Colorado. Or is it Colorado reminds me of Inzell? The way the trees look the way the houses look. It is also the place for the 2011 speed skating world championships. They also have the world championship for Biathlon near by. There are nice rolling hills that would be a beautiful place to go for a Cross Country ski. The house is amazing and it was very nice place to stay after a week of travel. Anita & Hans were so welcoming it was a real pleasure to be there.
Hans is a huge fan of all things Olympics. It was great to speak with someone who loves the Olympics as much as I do. We were chatting about Austria and how great a winter Olympic country it is. They usually win at least one medal for every million people that live there. If America did that we would need to win 300 medals. A huge haul of medals is anything over 30 in the Winter Olympics. America now you have a goal to achieve, one medal for every million people in 3 (2 Summers and 1 Winter) Olympics.
The other thing is the medal count. Hans and I had a good laugh on how the medal count is displayed. In America it is displayed so that the country with the most medals is on top. That way America is on top almost all of the time. In Europe it is the country with the most gold medals that is on top. So for a while Germany was on top. As Hans says, “what does it matter if you win a lot of medals, you want gold ones, correct?” He does have a point and maybe we should get on the same page so that there is no dispute on who is the winning the Olympics. More to come.
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