John sent this video to me yesterday, and ever since I’ve been trying to figure out how it relates to eventing so I could post it here. Conclusion: It has nothing do with eventing except for the fact that it’s awesome. Watch Mary Carillo, a longtime NBC Olympics reporter, rant about the tricky game of badminton during a 2004 Athens Olympics broadcast. The video has been on YouTube for a long time, but Deadspin resurrected it this week thanks to Sochi. Mary is also covering the Winter Olympics, and she was most recently spotted doing a vodka shot on air with a very pink-eyed Bob Costas. Today, we salute you, Mary. It takes a true comedic genius to make badminton interesting.
And for good measure, here’s Bob Costas after that vodka shot:
