Brief date night primers – Georgia, Nordic combined
If you’re going to find yourself out to dinner tonight in celebration of Valentine’s Day, your date is likely to bring up the tragic death of the luger from Georgia. You should know that Georgia is a country south of Russia and north of Turkey. 4.3 million people live in the country which the United States is currently engaged with in continuing an oil pipeline to Turkey.1
Georgia its independence from the former Soviet Union, but in the past few years, specific Georgian regions have developed their own desire for independence from Georgia because of lasting ties to Moscow. The conflicts have often turned bloody.
A more friendly Valentine’s Day topic might be the Nordic combined, an Olympic event that concluded today with American Johnny Spillane winning a silver medal and becoming the first U.S. competitor to win a medal in the event which has been ongoing since the inception of the Winter Olympics.
The Nordic combined is the odd pairing of the long jump with a 10k cross country skiing race. The best scoring jumper starts the cross country portion first, and the rest follow behind, penalized with a specific amount of seconds depending on how far behind the jump was. This way, the first to cross the finish line in the cross country race wins the gold.
Read on:
NBCSports.com – Spillane makes U.S. history in Nordic combined
(image above taken from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1102477.stm)
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