‘Skin Orgasms for Everyone’: Highlights of the Winter Olympics So Far
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I am Steve Stromberg, an editor in New York Times Opinion and a huge Olympics fan. I'm joined today by two fellow Olympics devotees, the Times contributing writer Issam Akali and writer and podcast host Kelly Corrigan. And also with us is Olympics royalty. We've got Sasha Cohen, a figure skater who won silver in the 2006 Winter Olympics. Thank you for being here.
Oh, thanks for having us. Thank you for having us. Yeah. Great to be here. Thank you.
The games aren't over, but I want to hear some of your superlatives of the Winter Olympics so far. What has been your favorite, most outrageous, most inspiring, or most unexpected moment of the games? And I should note that we were recording this on Wednesday morning, and it's probable that some amazing new things will happen by the time people hear this. We already heard this morning that Michaela Schifrin won gold in the slalom, so her drought is over. Esau, why don't you start?
My favorite story for this Olympics so far has been Frederica, I think it's Brignone, I guess that's how you say her name. She's an Italian skier, and she broke her tibia, fibula, and she had a complete knee disc location 10 months ago. And she just returned to gentle skiing in November, and she won two gold medals. She talked about how she thought that she may never ski or walk normally again. For her to come back and to win two gold medals, that's been my favorite story from the Olympics so far.
It really makes you think about the times that you complain about your occasional shoulder pain.
Listen, I hurt my back in November during a snowstorm.
You should have a gold medal around your neck by now.
I'm not back to shoveling the snow here in Chicago yet.
You're such a slacker.
Oh, my goodness. Kelly, give us a superlative.
Francesca Lola Brigida and her two-year-old son, Tomasa.
She is the first Italian woman to ever win a speed skating gold and has Italy's first speed skating gold since Torino 20 years ago.
She is away from this kid 250 days a year. And then there he was. And, you know, like as a mom, I can't even imagine what it would do for me for my kid to see me excel at my thing. So the way that the husband and the kid were jumping up and down like lunatic, it was like a gonzo moment. I loved Ilya coming off the ice after that really hard moment with such composure and using the words grateful.
The back-flipping skating sensation known as the quad god had one of his worst performances and failed to medal in the free skate finals.
Was it something physical or do you think it was more mental out there?
I think it was definitely mental. I mean, like just now finally experiencing that Olympic atmosphere, it's crazy. It's not like any other competition. It's really different and it's just such, I'm still so grateful that I was able to, you know, put in this work and effort to get to where I am. But of course, that was not the skate that I wanted.
And I love the insane arguments I've been getting into with my husband over, like, all the equipment stuff. Like, penis gate. And somebody had to bring it up. But also about, like, you know, the brooms they use and curling and whether a blue suit moves you faster than a red suit. Like, all that kind of seeming minutia to a layperson has been kind of fun to engage in.
Yeah.
Just to add a little context, Penisgate is, of course, about ski jumping and whether there was too much fabric in the sensitive areas of some of the competitors, which would give them a little bit of extra lift. Sasha, do you have any superlatives for us?
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