Gross Olympic Update

Ok I know you all want to hear about Istanbul and my 24th birthday, but guess what? I feel like blogging about my favourite German biathlete and then I might even blog about belting divas and the already-long-passed Grammy awards. SO THERE!

(all my photos of Istanbul are on my phone, and I can't load them onto my PC until I get back to Cairo, so you can wait until then for me to give you the WHOLE picture, literally, of my Turkey trip)

Just wanted to say the while it might SEEM as though Gross is not having a very successful Olympics, as the first two races were one by Germans and neither of those Germans was my Ricco, but I'd like to point something out to his doubters (who totally don't read my blog, in fact I've never read negative press about him, so he might not even *have* doubters, but LISTEN UP anyway!!):

In the first race, he finished 11th, while the German who would win the second race finished a pathetic 17th, and missed THREE targets (to Gross's one), and in the pursuit race today missed FOUR targets (the winner only missed two, although I should qualify my bashing of this guy -- Fischer is his name -- that he is skiing with INCREDIBLE pace, as he still won bronze, today, missing four targets and finished less than 16 seconds out of gold, so he skated A LOT faster than the gold medal winner...BUT THIS IS BIATHLON -- if you want to ski fast then go to cross-country...this is about skills...like...for hunting bears and stuff...and Gross can totally hunt bears and Fischer can't -- he can just ski really fast AWAY from the bears!). As for the German who won the first race, he didn't even compete in the second one (or didn't place in the top 30, which are the only results I have).

When I spoke to Ricco on the phone (I came to Istanbul, rather than spending my birthday with him in Italy, because he has to stay with the German team and they don't like me very much because some of the things I've said about Gross's teammate-competitors on my blog...) I told him just to focus on the 7.5km relay, since I think he can win another gold there, and the 15km mass start is just bonus, and if his back hurts just don't even bother with it.

So that's it for my update about Ricco! Take if from me: the man is a consistent performer who knows how to use a rifle :)

VC