Column: US drops the coin on flag bearer at Winter Olympics
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — Shani Davis would've been a fitting choice to carry the American flag into the Olympic opening ceremony, a superb athlete who helped break racial barriers at the Winter Games.
Someone sure dropped the coin on this one.
The U.S. Olympic Committee, an organization that never passes up a chance to shoot itself in the foot, came up with a voting process that could quite plausibly end in a tie.
It did, of course.
And how was the deadlock broken?
With the flip of a coin.
Whether it was heads or tails, we may never know. But the call went in favor of Erin Hamlin, so the luger will have the honor of carrying the stars and stripes into the stadium on Friday night .