Steve Dilbeck: I know that
Now what happens?
It’s a question a respectable journalist is never supposed to admit to asking, but after one week of freezin’ our patoodies off, we get weak.
The horrid truth: We don’t know everything about every sport in the Winter Games. We may not know half of it.
The trouble is we’re covering a lot of events most of us report once every four years. Yeah, we really are experts at freestyle aerials and the biathlon.
Watch the moguls and find the difference between the sliver- and bronze-medal winners. Uh, think that second guy struggled a tad on
his landing but the first guy did an extra spin.
You learn as much as you can, try not to fake too much, and hope it all works out at the end.
Then there are moments when the unexpected happens. Like you’re watching Bode Miller lead the combined after his second run, only to see an asterisk go up by his name.
That means … what? His run is being reviewed?
``I think in the last two minutes, it can only be reviewed by the official in the booth,’’ cracked one scribe.
Does that mean somebody else have filed a protest? Are the Koreans in this thing?
Next minute, Bode’s name disappears from the leader board. He’s been disqualified. He’s out.
Can he protest?
We’re all looking at each other, like one of us might actually know the answer. Sometimes we learn as we go. Sometimes it’s just a matter of time until we get enough for the day.
And sometimes we ask, now what?
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