One More Thing, Cuz Won Gold
My longtime friend and Olympics coconspirator, Bedel Saget, has the habit of calling all of us Cuz. And to be fair, when you see us all together, the family resemblances are pretty striking.
But as fate would have it, his actual cousin (or more accurately, his cousin’s son) was on the Canadian Olympic short track team. So we all grabbed our cameras for what Bedel called a “family outing” and headed to the Capital Indoor Stadium for the men’s short track 5,000-meter relay. Canada was favored. Canada, and Bedel’s our cousin, Jordan Pierre-Gilles, won gold. Family reunions will never be the same.
If you’ve seen a short track relay you know it’s mayhem: cutting off your opponents and pushing your teammates. This race was no different. It looked more like a Black Friday sale than an Olympic race.
I tried to capture some of that in the photos below. (As you’ll see, not all are from Jordan’s race. He wore 67 on his helmet).
A very special thanks to all of you for tagging along on another Olympic adventure. It makes all the subzero temperatures and food hunting worthwhile. A special thanks to those who commented, even the ones named Anonymous and Someone. It’s what breathes life into the blog.
Next stop: Paris?
Eat at Joe’s 
How exciting for Bedel (and all the family) to see his cousin win gold!! We know how busy you are on these Olympic trips so WE thank YOU for taking the time to blog.
Paris—Really???? 🙄
How cool!!! Those races were chaos! Seems like I could make a case for being related to a gold medalist 🤔
Thank you for all of the great pictures and updates! Consider this my application to be your assistant in Paris. “Official Food Finder” seems like a good title.
Welcome home – hope you can have some restorative downtime. Can’t thank you enough for treating us to so many great Olympic moments public and private.
Paris, ah oui!
Great job, Joey! And the rest of the family, too, of course. Is that Cousin Terri Ann with a camera in the stands with Cousin Bedel? And I think it should be noted that while you and Terri Ann actually did celebrate your birthdays in Beijing, I’m guessing Cousin Bedel celebrated his four or five times while you were all there, as he usually does when states-side.
Yes jimmy, that’s cousin Terri Ann. Funny story about Bedel’s birthday shenanigans. He had the uninitiated believing that one of the days there was his birthday so dozens of people wished him HB in our WhatsApp channel only to find out later that they had been duped. So when he announced that his cousin had won a gold medal, no one believed him. Serves cuz right.