I haven’t watched that much of the Torino Winter Olympics, but my favorite medalists so far are:
- Coloradan Toby Dawson and his overabundance of newfound Korean relatives
- Jamaican-born bobsledder Lascelles Brown, now competing for Canada
- Chinese freestyle skier Han Xiaopeng, a first for China on snow
- Shizuka Arakawa, the Japanese figure skater with a face that looks Chinese and a name that sounds Okinawan to Hawai‘i residents (but it’s not)
Far Outliers 