On the Plane
9/22/00
Friday 2:25 PM
Bela Karolyi
I’m in love. In love once again with the Olympic experience. Here I am, at the end of my epic experience, waiting to taxi down the runway, and I have been infected once again. Although I’ve spent a week in the Olympic City, surrounded by the sights and sounds of the Games, only now does the experience hit home. I can make no more of a poignant example than the fact that the world famous women’s gymnastics coach Bela-What’s his name [Editor: Béla Károlyi] is sitting 5 rows in front of me. Why he’s in economy class, I do not know. For 10 minutes I gawked in awe as a triathlete conversed one row over. My trip may now be over, but the Dream is Alive.
KC