You are so lucky

Everybody says how lucky I am to attend the Olympics. I must admit that I’ve had some amazing good fortune at previous Games.

At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics I saw the U.S. women’s basketball team rout South Korea for the gold medal and Carl Lewis lead a 1-2-3 sweep in the 200-meter-dash.

At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics I saw Lewis win his fourth gold medal in the long jump, and Michael Johnson set a world record in the 200-meter-dash that no one has since come remotely close to.

At the 2000 Sydney Olympics I saw wrestler Rulon Gardner pull off one of the greatest upsets in Olympic history when he beat the “invincible”? Alexander Karelin.

At the 2004 Olympics I saw swimmer Michael Phelps win six gold medals and Justin Gatlin emerge as the youngest man ever to win the 100-meter-dash.

It appears, however, that my string of good luck has finally ended.

So far at these Olympics I’ve covered two events where Americans were strong medal contenders: the women’s freestyle moguls and the men’s luge. And in both events, the Americans were shut out.

Monday and Tuesday I’m covering the women’s luge. It would be a huge upset if American medaled in this event, which has long been dominated by the Germans.

On Wednesday I am scheduled to cover the women’s downhill skiing race. But I just heard that American’s top medal hopeful, Lindsey Kildow, crashed this morning during a training run and was airlifted by helicopter to a hospital.

The ways things are going, I think the U.S. Olympic Committee may want to revoke my press credentials.