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I watched the Winter Olympics on NBC with directtv not wanting to miss any of it. I was part of it. I had goose bumps on my arms as I felt the cold and the snow in my bones. The women’s attire was styled in ravishing bright blues, aquamarine, and black and red colors. Their movements were like dancing, especially those of gold medalist South Korean’s Kim Yu-Na. She seemed to be floating above the ice and was astonishingly dainty and graceful. Her arms were snychronized into butterfly like movements while her legs were so strong that she flipped though the air effortlessly. The silver medalist, Mao Asada, had great strength in her novel triple axles, but I thought her movements were not as graceful and slow as those of Kim Yu-Na. I sensed there was a great deal of pressure on Japanese Mao Asada because of the historic rivalry between Japan and Korea. Her own parents must have known of the Japanese invasion, annexation, and occupation of Korea for thirty five years from 1910 through 1945 and how the Japanese seemed to look down on Koreans and wanted to succeed in besting them once again.

The smile of Kim Yu-Na as she won South Korea’s fame over her Japanese opponent must have resounded as a multiple victory in her homeland while Mao Asada’s grimace reflected the pain of Japans’s World War II loss. It was not only an Olympic victory, it was an historic one delivered by the excellent direct tv packages and their wondrous capture of the moment.