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FAIL or Pass - Olympic athelete - Kasai (jump) - back to school
At work (school) I got to see one of the iron horses of ski jumping. Noriaki Kasai
This guy is going on his 6th Olympic!
The kids were happy as hell to have a class off and I walked away disappointed and like WTF!
I got to stand around for half an hour to hear everybody else talk and got to hear the main coach of the jump team blab blab on about this guy (I was busy cracking my mouth about that I could read this on wikipedia ;-) ).
Finally, Mr. Kasai gets a bunch of flowers and cash gifts in ceremonial enevolopes (probably over $500) and then says he'll do his best to show us a great jump.
End ....
Afterwards he's answering the
local rags questions.
Nice enough guy but IMHO -- fail!
He graduated from from this school and so have others like the Mogal Queen Satoya.
I caught the ex-team coach during his interview and blurted out about having atheletes do more for schools and the idea of seminars or what not --- official comment: I was told that they can go to the "official ski schools" for that. Of course, I come back with but I really want to see
more athletes and more kinds with dreams -- official comment: we aren't considering that at the present.
I shook my head and replied, "maybe in the future" meaning I'll die before that happens :-(
I totally felt like my bubble was burst and that the kids got only a goof off period.
I wonder if I expected too much :-(
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