He might not have given the results that many Americans were looking for, like a gold medal, but one thing Apolo Ohno did do was make himself the Michael Phelps of the Winter Olympics.
Saturday night, the Seattle-born 27 year old speedskater skated to his seventh Olympic medal and while it may have been a bronze, he surpassed long track speedskater Bonnie Blair as the most decorated American winter Olympic athlete. Taking the backseat to two Koreans, Lee Jung-Su and Lee Ho-Suk and coming in before Canada's Hamelin brothers in the 1,000 metres, Ohno did not look entirely settled.
In a quick interview with NBC after the skate, Ohno said that he would do the race again if he could. What he probably would do over was the footing "mistake" he made which caused him to appear to trail the pack for a few gruelling seconds and lose his momentum.
Ohno has a silver from this Olympics already, in the 1,500 metre where another American, 19 year old J.R Celski capture a bronze. And this was not the last event for the soul-patch sporting speedskater. Ohno fans do not fret - he still has two more events coming up, the 500 metre and the 5,000 metre final relay.
Having been an Ohno fan since he hit the Olympic scene in 2002, I would be thrilled to see him bring home the gold in his two final events.
Seven's a lucky number, we'll see what fate has in store for him.
V.K.L
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