Dual Authorship

My blog now has "two" authors.

Don't be fooled.

They're both me.

Last year, in the wake of the LMC fiasco, I moved my old blog, "Waldorf Like You" here, renamed it, and created a new account to post with. Now, I'd like to think that wee phase of my life is over, and it is just SO much easier for me to post out of my original account. At any rate, it's the internet. Anyone can find anything they want. I kind of learnt this the hard way recently, when some guy I hardly know managed to unearth a particularly poorly-written article about me from the Waikato Times last year and sent it to me via Twitter.

I love the internet machine.

Something I don't love? Sarah Jarvis' non-selection for the New Zealand Winter Olympic team. Anyone care to explain?

Sarah is New Zealand's most successful alpine ski racer since Annelise Coberger, who became the first and only person from this country to win an Olympic Winter medal when she earnt silver in the women's slalom in 1992. Sarah is 23, like me, and was bidding for her first Olympic berth this year in Vancouver. Her accolades include a host of top-ten finishes at FIS events, as well as Nor-Am cups. She was the only female in contention for our alpine ski team and her exclusion seems well, a bit stupid. It's likely that by 2014 Sarah will be enormously more successful, and her non-selection means she's missing out on a valuable Olympic experience that would undoubtedly serve her well, should she make Sochi.

To be completely fair, no New Zealand athletes are real medal contenders at this Olympics. This begs the question why more "seasoned" (or older) athletes like Tionette Stoddard and Ben Sandford have been selected and Sarah hasn't.

Eeek, political.