Good morning.
Whitewater will have heavy snow today, with an accumulation of about four to six inches. We’ll have a high temperature of twenty-five.
On this day in 1972, Nixon goes to China.
On this day, twelve years ago, a Wisconsinite strikes gold at Salt Lake City:
2002 – Wisconsin Skater Takes Gold
On this date West Allis native Chris Witty won a gold medal in speed skating’s 1000 meter at the Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games. She broke the world record with a time of 1:13.82, even though she was recovering from mononucleosis. Before Witty competed in ice staking, she was a professional bicyclist. [Source: US Olympic Team]
Puzzability begins a new weekly series, with a Winter Olympics theme. Here’s Monday’s game:
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This Week’s Game — February 17-21
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Cities of Gold
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Here’s our inside track at the Olympics. For each day this week, we started with the name of a city in which the Winter Olympics have been held. Then we hid it in a sentence, with spaces added as necessary. The answer spans at least two words in the sentence and starts and ends in the middle of words. The day’s clue gives the sentence with a torch in place of the city name.
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Example:
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I didn’t qualify for the luge finals after my qualifying time was to
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Answer:
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Oslo (too slow)
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What to Submit:
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Submit the city (as “Oslo” in the example) for your answer.
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Monday, February 17
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