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It's 5:35 am Thursday morning in Torino, getting ready for my live shot in your Wednesday night "Eyewitness News" at 10:30...running part 2 of my interview with NBC Olympics Host Bob Costas. I spent about a half-hour with him over at NBC"s main studio in Torino. I've known Bob for several years...not friends but we have a rapport, he's very funny and opinionated (surprise!)and does have a fond memory of his time in Utah during the 2002 Olympics!
Sleep!!?? there's a funny thought. Anytime anyone signs up for an Olympics assignment you pretty much know you'll deal for many days and nights in a state of sleep-deprivation. You just have to make sure you don't walk in front of buses,trains...try not to fall out your window...don't slit your through shaving...don't order food to go at an automotive shop! Basic things like that. There's little we can do here...working and covering events in Italy, but putting our stories and updates on tv for you back in Utahn, 8 hour time difference so we all go through cycles of little or no sleep for a couple of days a week...so if it sounds like I"m babbling during a liveshot...do not adjust you tv's...I am babbling!! DON'T THINK FOR A MOMENT I'M COMPLAINING 'CAUSE I MOST CERTAINLY AM NOT! Covering the Olympics is always a career highlight (I've been fortunate enough to cover 6 of them...Albertville and Lillehammer with CNN and the last 4, Sydney,SLC,Athens and now Torino with KSL and they never get old but I do enjoy the occassional "rem" moment!
--other loose bloggerisms...My new and good friend Corrado, one of our f-1 Italian drivers is up for my really great Olympic ideas...a quick drive to Monte Carlo for lunch and some sightseeing. It's just a 6 hour jaunt roundtrip,less if I can force him to go about 100MPH, there are no HP's in Italy...I"m thinkin'we go Saturday...I think I'd have a better chance of getting an ok from my boss here if this Olympics thing wasn't going on here.
WE just got word bus drivers went on strike...half-hour later...report refuted...bus drivers 'rockin' on' here in Torino.
Gelato is NOT overrated....very much underrated...I was going to pack away several gallons in my dufflebag, kids would love me for it...I'd be a huge hero upon my return but then I realized it might...melt in transit!
I've got to go work some more...I'll blog some more when I'm not working...Oh...great Oly moment. Went to tonight's USA/Finland Hockey Q-final...USA lost but I had my picture taken with Kelly Stephens ( USA Women's Team) her Bronze Medal was front and center in our picture...then I jumped into a pack of elderly, celebrating Fins...they seemed happy I joined them even if it was just for about 15 seconds for another picture...I looked out of place! I also had my picture taken with these OLympic "cheerleaders"... photo opps like that are few and far between...I can scratch "get a picture with Olympic cheerleaders" off my career 'to do' list.
I really am leaving now!
