finale in a scandal that is consumed olympic skating. 15 year old russian figure skater, a heavy favorite to win gold in the competition, didn t even make it to the podium, after an uncharacteristically performance. even as or teammates took gold and silver, the anguish in turmoil was clearly evident on all of the skaters. as washington post columnist put it, failure and misery are more prevalent in sports than we care to acknowledge, but this was another level. this was torture on ice consider it happen to a teenager, when experiencing vilification for possible doping plot, that she couldn t have possibly devised on our own. her agonizing for a minute free
chivalry projects and he couldn t find any. that s because in order to get a project done from the germ of an idea to completion, you need approvals from so many different people. and if one person says know no, 13 people have a veto, one veto means you can t get the project done. it used to be in a city like new york, there could be one power broker. his name from the 20s to 60s was robert moses. if he said yes, he could do anything he wanted no one could veto him. now we ve gone to the another extreme where environmental, zoning, sometimes just raw politics, that s how mayor michael bloomberg s olympic skating was killed by a reform and by some mechanism why amazon didn t land in queens. on all of these issues, often the project is good, sometimes it s bad. but we ve made it so that rather than being able to be not other we stopping bad projects,
here. this massive event cost about $2 million with the city picking up most of the tab. that includes the cost of two tons of sha he hadredded confetti. let me take you back for all of you keeping score on history here. look at these pictures. this tradition started with the dedication of the statue of liberty back in 1886 and it was stockbrokers who tossed rolls and rolls of ticker tape out of their windows in lower manhattan. this is olympic skating gold medalist carol jenkins being honored in 1960. by the way, that was the last time new york threw a parade for someone. carol jenkins is joining me from cleveland and also michelle akers. i m surrounded by some amazing