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Friday, January 10, 2014

Hello Everybody, and Hail to the Olympics!

     First off, I'd just like to say welcome to the Flaming Torch!  You may or may not know this, but I actually have another blog as well.  If you knew that, great!  If not, here's the Reader's Digest version.  My other blog, which is called Chicago 365, revolves around the great city of Chicago, giving historical tidbits, reviews of various goings-on, as well as amusing vignettes that you never knew(for example, did you know that on two separate occasions in the 1950s, Chicago's beaches were stormed by military equipment?)  However, in the interest of branching out, I'm trying something new.  The purpose of this blog(in case you guys haven't gotten the hint already) will be to do a day-by-day profiling of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. (and heck, if I get really ambitious, maybe even Rio 2016.  But let's worry about that one in two years)

     If this is the only entry that you see, then consider yourselves lucky, cause you've clearly gotten in on the ground floor of this enterprise.  The Games kick off on February 6, so this blog will be getting more active the closer we get to the Opening Ceremonies.  And once the cauldron is lit, I'm gonna hit the ground running and start putting up new content during all 17 days of the Games.  So there you have it.  Read this post.  Tell you friends about it.  Tell your enemies about it.  Tell the person who cuts your hair about it.  Tell everybody you know about it, so that when this blog goes live, it gets an audience.  So make sure to talk this page up, and until next time...
 

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