I have landed

March 3, 2014 • 7:46 pm

I am back from Boston, with more tales and holidays snaps, but those must wait. I have to share one experience, though: shortly after I landed at Midway Airport, a group of people with balloons and American flags were waiting outside the security barrier—waiting for someone who shared my name:

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Quite a coincidence! It turns out that Kendall Coyne was a forward on the U.S. National women’s hockey team that won a silver medal in Sochi, and was also on the team that won the world championship in Switzerland in 2011.

I waited around to see who he/she was (I had no idea until I just looked up the name), and she finally showed up to loud applause and a local news team:

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The star forward was tiny, and looked about 12 years old, but she’s really 21 (still so young!) According to Wikipedia, she’s 5’2″ (1.57 m) and weighs 130 pounds (59 kg). At least I got to see what is probably the only Coyne to ever win an Olympic medal. Congrats to her and her team!

21 thoughts on “I have landed”

  2. She’s being greeted by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, it appears.

    Women hockey players always seem to still have all their teeth.

    So, she’s a silver Coyne?

    Sorry…I’m bored.

    1. On the other hand, apparently they have a higher rate of concussion than male players. This also holds true for women’s basketball and soccer, both in high school and college.

      reference: Tucker Center for Girls & Women in Sport documentary.

    2. Probably because they don’t play in the NHL where it seems they are more interested in violence than the game.

    3. That is probably one of the best/worst ( delete according to preference) I have heard in a long time ….

        1. How terrible! You’re brain robbed you of the punchline. Next it will violently wake you up, just as you’re falling asleep!

          1. Ah brains, what would we do without them. They are ultimately responsible for all of our mistakes and embarrassment.

          2. I dunno. Most creationists make all kinds of mistrakes, and I’ve yet to see any evidence of brain activity from them….

            b&

  3. She’s about my size. It was a really good game. Everyone was watching it at work as I could hear the cheering. Then everyone got silent & I thought Canada lost but we didn’t, thank goodness because we’d never hear the end of it!

    1. I was surprised by her size. I thought you had to be big to excel at hockey. I love it when the little people win, presumably thanks to speed, agility, fitness and brains. I (a little person) used to play tennis where being big and strong was not an advantage.

  4. She looks happier now than she did after the gold-medal game. They say it’s better to win bronze than silver and the teams at the medal ceremony exemplified that idea 110%.

    2. Maybe 1900’s Henri Cohen, the noted Belgian water polo player, might have spelled his name differently in another time or country.

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