austria

The day, February 11, 2002 started with an morning drive to Park City to park, at this point we were getting familiar to the routine of hopping shuttle bus, wait in security lines, waiting more... but i was getting a little irked cause the eyelets on my boots always chirping the metal detectors so i'd get moved over to the secondary line to get wanded down by some 19-year National Guardsman. 

Cops from all over the US had come to help out and provide reinforcements and while I won't rant on this topic, I did find it a "bit* distracting but post 9/11 etc .... you know the routine.

(Note: This is part three of the SLC Winter Olympics Flashback series from Dave Thorvald and Dan Funboy)

Just when I thought we'd arrived a week too early, the crowds poured in from around the world, everywhere folks seemed to be hustling elsewhere - I noticed various recognizable media folks and tried to guess where people were from. Safe to say, a predominantly northern/eastern European (read=white) crowd but, cool hearing all sorts of languages as we cruised around downtown Salt Lake.