Winter Olympics 2006, Torino, Italy — Here is one of the closing songs featuring Hayley Westenra & Andrea Bocelli, singing Time to Say Goodbye. The Italians know how to put on a show.
Winter Olympics 2002, Salt Lake City, Utah — Dorothy Hamil the 1976 Olympic Games Gold Medalist chosen for the gold by all nine judges, skates to Somewhere Over the Rainbow sung by Harry Connick, Jr.
This is the best compilation of the 1980 Winter Olympics Miracle on Ice USA vs. USSR hockey game in Lake Placid, NY, that I could find. It is still one of the great upsets in international sports.
Charlie Leocha is the President of Travelers United. He has been working in Washington, DC, for the past 14 years with Congress, the Department of Transportation, and industry stakeholders on travel issues. He was the first consumer representative to the Advisory Committee for Aviation Consumer Protections appointed by the Secretary of Transportation from 2012 through 2018.