Goodbye Letter to Sochi

Dear Sochi,

Most of us never really met you. But in this age of Internet romance, does that even matter?

We had our thing together — an affair as intense as it was abbreviated — but the Winter Olympics are all over now. It's time to briefly look back, to take measure of these several weeks and months that we spent together

You were never perfect. We knew that going in; you were what some would call no good. But it's not your fault they built a winter sporting palace in a coastal resort region so balmy that only a last-second shipment of salt may have saved the games' snowy slopes Read more...