The 22nd-Largest Team at the Olympics: Zamboni Drivers

[elleng]

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — The Winter Olympics are a global competition, with athletes representing 92 countries. But one event is dominated by Americans and Canadians like no other: Zamboni driving.

It is conspicuous, this army of 37 mostly imported Zamboni drivers, doing their quiet, mesmerizing work of resurfacing the ice, back and forth on their big machines, when the action pauses and the cameras turn away.

“I have really good American drivers,” said Remy Boehler, an ice expert from France in charge of the surfaces for the figure skating and short-track speedskating arena and practice rinks. “For me, it is a dream team.”

Ice is hardly a foreign substance in South Korea, especially when it’s this cold, yet when it comes to making it and resurfacing it, the Pyeongchang Olympics organizing committee outsourced it to foreign experts.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/sports/olympics/zamboni-drivers-hockey-speedskating-figure-skating.html

[longship]

1. Gotta love the Zambonis!!!

[IcyPeas]

2. Lettermans Top 10 list of rejected Olympic Sports included 4-Man Zamboni

David Letterman Zamboni race on 53rd Street.

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[diva77]

3. Here's an interesting bit of trivia- Frank Zamboni's grandson wrote hit tunes for Elvis

Mark James aka Francis Zambon wrote "Suspicious Minds" - Elvis's comeback tune; co-wrote "You Were Always On My Mind," "Hooked on a Feeling," etc.

Such talent & creativity in that family!!