Jeremy Bloom Fails to Medal

Jeremy Bloom, an Olympic Moguls skier failed to medal in the Winter Olympics in Torino. To me this is a sad story, because this past year Bloom gave up the possibility to play college football at the University of Colorado to pursue Olympic success. The NCAA forced Bloom to choose between the two sports when they said he could not accept endorsment deals from his ski career while playing football for Colorado. I always thought that Bloom would have success when he chose to go with the ski career, and it is tough to stomach as a spectator when something like this happens to an athlete. I have never been put in a situation like this one, but it must be killing Bloom to now be thinking of what could have been in his college football career. I don't know what is in store for Bloom after these Olympics, but I hope he has the opportunity to go back to the winter games in 2010, even though that seems like a long-shot at this point.

Publish Date: February 16 in the Missourian.