captain of the luge team<\/a>, explained to press after the event how he came to win the first ever Olympic medal for the tiny country of South Canada.<\/p>\n“First off, I thought we’d be better at luging,” Hickory said. “It’s actually a ton harder than it looks like on the TV. I did my slide, and then I went upta the top again for another try, but I guess you don’t get another try, or at least they said I hadta wait till tomorrow, but I’d lugged my sled up the whole dang hill, so I was kinda pissed at ’em, and they told me to leave. So’s I left. Took my sled, which got all busted up on the luge track anyway, nice sled, got it at the Aubuchon in Enosburg Falls, and now it’s this scrap of a sled, and I was trynta get outta there, and I tripped over I don’t even know what, and I fell face first onta my busted sled, and before I knew it I was flying down some other hill. I was a bit scared at first, but actually I enjoyed the ride. Got the ol’ adrenaline going.”<\/p>\n
Hickory had fallen into the skeleton track just as the Dominic Parsons, the Great Britain competitor, was about to start a run, and the rest is Olympic history. The timers started, Hickory flew forward on a thin piece of plastic, and 50.37 seconds later he was a bronze medalist. Parsons has no hard feelings for Hickory, and in fact the two shared a few drinks after the competition. Asked whether he will return to skeleton in four years in Beijing or stick with luge, Hickory told press, “I had a good time all around, and I might be a better forward slider, but no matter what event I end up in I’ll always be a big luger.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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