Friday, February 17, 2006

Bjorn

Bjorn Bjornsen slept here. And that's not all he did here, although my lips are sealed. Surely you remember Bjorn Bjornsen. The famous Norweigen speed skater? Won gold at Nagano, silver at Lillehammer? That Bjorn Bjornsen. Well, he slept here, in this room and in this bed, one night in the summer of '99, shortly before his disappearance. Folks say he knew too much about the inner workings of the IOC. They tried to pin a steroid rap on him but it wouldn't stick, so it was off to Davy Jones's Locker for him. If the stories are to be believed, his remains lie under fifty feet of permanently frozen arctic tundra. Not even global warming will thaw out his ass. Poor Bjorn. Never made it to Salt Lake. But then neither did a bunch of the committee memebers he'd had dealings with.

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