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RE: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

From: s666@f...
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:25:14 -0700 (MST)
Subject: RE: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav



On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Derk Groeneveld wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:
> 
> > G'day,
> >
> > >> And the Germans collected medals by the dozen
> > >> :-)
> > >
> > > hey, the Dutch are still in the top 10, too! Which is not bad
> > > for a tiny country with neither mountains nor arctic climate!
> >
> > I just love the fact we got our first winter gold by waiting for
everyone
> > else to fall over... it just fits somehow ;)
> 
> Okay, I'm curious. I don't get this one, please enlighten me?

In one of the men's short track speed skating events, 4 out of 5 skaters
went down in a spill on the last corner. The Aussie, who was dead last,
calmly skated in for gold.

Of course, Australia also won a gold in women's aerials too.

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