Winter Olympics, The Equator, and That Feel-Good Underdog Sports-Movie

A side-step...

If you happen to live in a country situated near the Equator you probably don't give a rat's ass about the Winter Olympics that is currently being held in Torino, Italy.. With headline events such as down-hill skiing and ice hockey it's no surprise why the sun-tanned could care less.
It's also no surprise that warm weather countries are at least represented, in spite of the so-called inherent racism found in these games.

We've seen "Cool Runnings", and some of us have gone ice skating at one time or another in an SM rink, so we know anything is possible with man-made snow. Producing a world-class ice skater from a warm-weather nation isn't the underdog story it once was. What makes news are injured down-hill female skiers (four to be exact) who crashed while training on hazardous slick artificial snow (assembled due to diminished snow fall this year). Some of them bravely "returned to the slopes that ate them up". Also, glorified figure skater, Michelle Kwan makes the headline now that she's near the end of her storied career.