Just saw Valentino Rossi in the Olympic opening ceremonies! First Ago, now Vale! Loving it.
One of my friends that was basically an intern mechanic on a formula car team I worked with for 8 years is now a mechanic on the US men's Olympic bobsled team. He's been doing bobsled stuff for 6 years. It's fun following his socials. He's been in Italy for three weeks already. He does a fair amount of carbon work on the sled. Which is kind of funny because we always made him clean under floors and diffusers, which is the really crappy part that usually precedes carbon repair as those are high wear areas. I guess the training worked out. It doesn't hurt that he's a great dude
Anyways, outside of my aunt being an Olympic marathoner this about as close to the Olympics as I have been.