LA Times Winter Olympics
July 7th, 2009 | Published in Travel
A good friend invited me to Torino for the Winter Olympics in 2006, to hang out with her family. Her little sister dates Joey Cheek, the speedskater, who won gold the second night we were there. Whooee! Whirlwind introduction to fame ensued. I pitched this story to some small regional papers before Kirsten’s mom said, What are you doing starting at the bottom? Start at the TOP and work your way down. So I pitched to the LA Times, and they accepted it. Lesson learned!
It’s slightly distorted because this is a scan of the copy printed on-site in Torino (each paper prints a local edition during special events). I also blew it out huge so you can actually read it, even at 1000pixels wide it was migraine inducing.
Here’s the cover, with a teammate:
