Bouquets & Brick-bats
Bouquet To the USA Winter Olympic team, which won its most gold medals (12) in the past 76 years while coming in second to Norway. But we don’t actually care about losing to a country of 5.65 million people where all it ever does is snow. Instead, we are proud of great individual performances by athletes like Alysa Liu, Breezy Johnson, and Jordan Stolz, who radiated pride in being Americans and joy in being themselves before the eyes of a very large portion of the planet. The most memorable part of the Winter Olympics for us, though, was not any of the individual performances, as spectacular and heart-stopping as they were. It was a scene that unfolded immediately after the USA men’s team’s thrilling victory over Canada for the gold medal in hockey. After winning 3-2 in overtime, USA forward Dylan Larkin and defenseman Zach Werenski skated back towards the stands to pick up the children of their late Olympic teammate Johnny Gaudreau, and then brought them onto the ice. Noa Gaudreau, …