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Keith McCord Reporting At the Salt Lake games four years ago today, the FBI got involved in a sporting event when death threats were made against an American Speed skater.
Short track Speed Skater Apolo Ohno turned over threatening e-mails to the FBI on this day. Most of the 16-thousand messages came from sources in South Korea. Ohno had been awarded a gold medal the previous night when a judge disqualified a South Korean skater for cutting off Ohno in the final lap. South Korea's Olympic officials would file a complaint about the disqualification.
We also learned that the American athletes were remembering some of the 9-11 victims in a special way. Prior to the games, each of the athletes received a bracelet with the name of a New York firefighter killed in the attacks.
"When I first got the bracelet. I was so worried. I'm like, 'I hope that David would be okay about me having his name on it.' I thought maybe he would want someone cooler or something."
Some of the athletes said they will never take them off.
Some of the busiest non-athletes of the games were the volunteers manning the information booths scattered throughout downtown. They heard every question imaginable, mostly about how to get here or there.
"The one we had that we couldn't answer was where's the closest Laundromat?"
And the question asked most of all, of course, 'where's the nearest restroom?'
