Overnight (Iowa time), Team USA won the women’s hockey gold medal for the first time since the first time it was featured in the Olympics, in 1998. It took hockey’s overtime, a shootout, and then an extra shootout. NPR ran a live-blog here.
Heard during the coverage: “led by a goaltender who was seven and a half months old the last time the USA won gold…”
Woof. But I’m still young enough to pretend I could be an Olympian, right? Right?
Kikkan Randall Wins Her 1st Medal In Cross-Country — A Gold — After 18 Tries
With plans firmly in place to retire and make a new home with her family after the 2018 Games, it seemed possible that Randall, 35, might see her career end without an Olympic medal.
*shakes fist at young athletes*