A Korean girl shot across the figure skating universe like a comet over the weekend.
And while she certainly could blaze another such trail in the future, it may seem for a while that You Young is on a path like Halley’s Comet, which comes around about every 75 years.
Read MoreAn injury kept Jason Brown from having a rinkside seat for the first of Yuzuru Hanyu’s two history-making performances last fall.
Even from afar, though, the reigning U.S. champion was blown away by what the reigning Olympic champion from Japan did at November’s NHK Trophy and, astonishingly, improved upon at December’s Grand Prix Final.
Read MoreIt won’t stir a relatively widespread public reaction like the one that followed the selection of the U.S. women’s singles figure skating team for the 2014 Olympics.
But defending champion Jason Brown’s injury withdrawal from the upcoming U.S. Championships in St. Paul may lead to hot debates within the sport’s ever-shrinking fan base about the choices of the U.S. men’s team for the March World Championships in Boston.
Read MoreWhat better way to unveil my new website than with a column that has become a tradition in my three-plus decades of Globetrotting coverage focused on Olympic and international sports?
Thus, my 29th annual international sports awards.
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The Godfather of soccer
If there were a tone poem composed about the past year in sports, it would have a recurring theme with discordant sibilance to express sporting scandals, from silly to scurrilous to sordid, that resounded across the globe in 2015.
Implicated were presidents of the world’s two most far-reaching sports federations, Sepp Blatter of FIFA and Lamine Diack of the IAAF.
(A Swiss and a Senegalese. More sibilance.)
My Op-Ed for Around The Rings.
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Philip Hersh, formerly Olympic specialist for the Chicago Tribune, has covered 20 Olympic Games. He often uses sport as a way to write about the culture of a country or athlete. READ FULL BIO
