The 2026 Winter Olympics have been very exciting to watch. My home state of Michigan has been well represented.
A great example of this is Megan Keller. She scored on a backhand 4:07 into overtime, giving the United States a 2-1 victory against Canada. She’s from Farmington Hills, MI. Kirstin Simms was also on that team and she is from Plymouth/Livonia.
Iron Mountain, Michigan was represented by Nick Baumgartner who won a gold medal in the snowboarding mixed team event. Elizabeth Lemley also has a Michigan connection and she won gold in women’s freestyle skiing.
What you may not know is that because the Olympics are in Italy, some of the events might be a tad bit different. Not to worry though, I have trained, competed and did extremely well.
I took the gold in the downhill lasagna run. It’s not easy skiing on ricotta…
Of course, because the games are in Italy, curling wasn’t as difficult as I thought. You just gotta get used to the change in weight…
Ice Hockey is also a little different, and messy. It’s important to use a frozen meatball!
USA! USA!!
Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian 