I've been hearing stories on Shelter Island of Amanda Clark and her sailing ways for years.   It was big news when she made the Olympic Team I'll bet someone will organize a parade if she medals.  It is certainly much easier to get excited about the Olympics when you know of, even through a community, someone competing.  

I remember the Olympics being a big deal to me when I was a kid, and lately I've heard things like, "we'll probably turn off cable after the olympics" and "when are the opening ceremonies".   I think I got turned off from the Olympics in 1996 when NBC was telling Yahoo! not to publish the results from the Olympics until after they aired them on TV,  and the obviously edited programming went on masquerading as live sports.   It does appear that NBC has finally embraced the Internet.  NBC Olympics not only has that great Bio of Amanda including pictures and videos, but an easy to navigate calendar of all the events.   They may have even enticed me to download a Microsoft Plugin to my Mac Book Pro so that I can watch the events I'm interested in, not the 100s of hours of drama and back story.  

Sail Amanda sail, Shelter Island and the world is watching.