olympics salt lake city 2002, just five months after 9/11 the games were secured by armed soldiers, the fear of follow-on terror attacks haunted us in those days out of the original security rules before september 11th, this balloon or any airplane would not be allowed to get within three miles of that site i remember athens 2004 there were genuine worries the venues wouldn t be ready, over budget and out of time, there was even early talk of whether the games would be relocated to another country. in the lead up to the 2014 sochi games in russia, security fears hung in the air. would terrorists from the north caucuses make a move? the rio games in 2016 played against the backdrop of the zika outbreak they were all serious concerns, but every single time something magical happened unbelievable.
she was hardly olympic caliber not doing any tricks and finishing dead last by a long shot. she made the team by gaming the system and exploiting loopholes in the rules. some considered her appearance harmless. others say she made a mockery of the games. by the way she a harvard grad who ran against arnold schwarzenegger for governor back in the day. martha: trace, thank you. here with more marc thiessen american enterprise corinther and scholar and good to see you tonight. good evening. good to be with you, martha. martha: can they regain their former glory? i think the olympics are still great. and, look, some of the coverage has been awful, especially the fawning over north korea. and, yes, there is corruption. the fact that the russians are even there after that doping scandal that he would discussed a few months ago at the 2014 sochi games is awful. but the reality is the olympics aren t about the commentators. they are not about the organizers. they are about the athlet
they competed for a medal in the pairs free skate competition. although the pair became the first americans to land a quad twist, they failed to medal coming in 15th. alexa tweeted that her thoughts were with the victims and prayed for the hearts and the mourners to be lifted up, however, team usa was able to add another piece of hardware to its collection, 22-year-old mikaela shiffrin won the gold medal in the giant slalom for her second career olympic title. she finished .39 faster than the second place finisher. she is out to defend her title from the 2014 sochi games this friday and shiffrin has the potential to end these olympics with five medals, even with the gold medal from shiffrin the u.s. remains in fifth overall in the medal count. norway leads with 16 overall and germany leads in the amount of gold medals with eight. thanks for that. obviously the sports world reacting even from the olympics athletes reacting to what happened here. when you see things happening
they re pumped. i m sure my brothers will be pumped. we have grown up watching the olympics. we are always like who is carrying the flag. to be that person is insane. reporter: we want to give you one athlete to watch in pyeongchang. skiing speed demon on the slopes and one at the 2014 sochi games became the youngest slalom champion at 18 years old. mikaela shiffrin. i m going into the games with the similar mind set from sochi. i have the ability of winning a medal if not multiple medals. i feel more like a veteran going into the olympic games. at the same time, i still feel like sort of a starry-eyed girl. i m still competing with girls
hearing. 28 athletes banned by the international olympic committee for violating doping rules at the 2014 sochi games were overturned. the court of arbitration for sport rules the evidences was, quote, insufficient, while cutting lifetime bans for 11 athletes to just a ban for the pyeongchang games. the 28 athletes can now seek entry in the winter olympic games which start on february 9th. some good news for them. however, it is not all good news for russian sports with a threat that can only be described as biblical. the russian officials worry a plague of locate i couldn t tells could destroy the world cup fields this year. perhaps a good thing the u.s. is missing out on playing in the world cup for the first time since 1986. any silver lining we can pull out of the u.s. that s a bit of a dis-pratt