Wednesday, February 18, 1998

Can Utah top this?

The legacy of the 1998 Winter Olympics is shaping up as an odd collection of offbeat happenings.

Major snow sports had to be postponed because of, well, snow.

A new health hazard was discovered: second-hand marijuana smoke.

The members of the U.S. men’s hockey team will return to lucrative careers in professional hockey while the gold medalists of the much more successful U.S. women’s hockey team will return to obscurity.

And the games answered the question: When is a Swede named Ulf Samuelsson not a Swede? When he carries two passports, one of them American.

The daughter of hippie parents belted out the "Star Spangled Banner" at the awarding of her gold medal in the super giant slalom, thus guaranteeing that at least some baby girls of Generation Xers will grow up named "Picabo."

Salt Lake City will have a lot to live up to in 2002.