The Olympic Show: A Look Forward to Salt Lake
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A special edition of the weekly CNBC series about Olympic-related topics. Host Dan Hicks interviews Mitt Romney, President and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee from Salt Lake on the preparations for the Games and how recent tragedies in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania have affected the preparations. Hicks also interviews Bonny Warner from a U.S. Olympic Committee athletes' meeting in Chicago. Warner, a three-time Olympian in luge, is a United Airlines pilot on sabbatical training for the Salt Lake Games. She voluntarily returned to work to reposition 737s and renew service to Western cities isolated when U.S. air traffic was halted. Warner's husband, Tony Simi, is a firefighter/paramedic in California and Bill Tavares, the head coach of the women's bobsled national team, is an infantry specialist in the Army reserves in New York. The program also features four of the USA's medal contenders for the Salt Lake Games: Daron Rahlves, the reigning World Champion in skiing's Super-G; Apolo Anton Ohno, the reigning World Cup Champion in short track speed skating; figure skating contender Sarah Hughes; and Jonny Moseley, the 1998 Olympic gold medalist in moguls skiing.
