We’re over the halfway point of the Olympics, and we’ve settled into the rhythms of this event. The Dutch are dominating speed skating, the Germans have seen cracks in their rule of the sliding sports, Canada is competitive everywhere, and Norway has added alpine skiing to their usual fiefdom of Nordic skiing.
However, the Olympics season is turning to fall, and as the sliding center has moved from luge to skeleton and now to bobsled, it signals the end is near. There is talk that the US is having a disappointing Olympics, which is true, but it misses the context of these Games.