The Winter Olympics have been filled with thrilling moments for Team USA — from the lads’s and girls’s hockey groups profitable gold to Alysa Liu gorgeous followers each time she took the ice. And one man was there to witness all of it: Jason Kelce.
The former Eagles heart joined his spouse, Kylie Kelce, who attended on behalf of NBC and YouTube. While Kylie was there on enterprise, Jason loved his time as a spectator and had no downside with CBC Olympics labeling him as Kylie Kelce’s husband.
“I really was just there to have fun and enjoy the Olympics,” Kelce stated on the most recent episode of New Heights. “So, I was 100% — this was the correct way to say it. I wanted to tell them I prefer ‘ball and chain.’”
During his time in Milan, Kelce bought some bobsledding expertise and attended 4 Olympic hockey video games, the brief program for determine skating and short-track speedskating. Here’s all the things he needed to say about his expertise on the Winter Olympics:
Bobsledding expertise
Ahead of the video games, Kelce had the possibility to get some hands-on expertise with Team USA’s bobsledding group at their headquarters in Park City, Utah, the place he discovered about their coaching and bought to see what it looks like taking place the observe with Team USA member Frank Del Duca.
“The ride itself, way more intense than I imagined,” Kelce stated. “Like I thought it would be like a roller coaster. I really did. The energy that you are moving down this thing at over 80 mph. And when you go into these bank turns, it pushes you into the bottom of this thing.
“And on the bottom of the sled, there’s like these metal rails and my [expletive] is so [expletive] wide, they’re sitting on those metal rails. I’m being pinched down onto these metal beams. I’m trying to keep my head up so I can see. [Expletive] is flying by. I have no [expletive] idea how [Frank] was even knowing when to do the turns and everything. Like, you have to memorize it.”
‘The most fun sport to watch on the planet’
After the lads’s U.S. hockey group made historical past, profitable the gold medal for the primary time in 46 years, Kelce went to social media to specific his emotions with a easy, “Let’s [expletive] go!”
“There is just something about hockey, whether it’s playoff hockey or national hockey,” Kelce stated. “When guys are like going all out, it’s just the most fun sport to watch on the planet. USA, hockey capital of the world. Men’s and women’s gold medal. Best country on the planet in hockey. I don’t want to hear any arguments.”
Kelce supported each groups in Milan, attending two ladies’s hockey video games and two males’s video games — together with the lads’s dominant 6-2 win over Slovakia within the semifinals, and the ladies’s gold medal victory over Canada.
“Canada got out to a quick lead and it made it very stressful,” Kelce stated. “It was an electric game and then obviously we got to see USA men’s dismantle Slovakia. And I was sitting with the Tkachuk family. Keith Tkachuk was over there on the end of it. Got to shake the hand of a [expletive] legend … We were right by the Hughes family, too. Jack Hughes, who had the golden goal for the U.S. in the gold medal game.”
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After each groups’ wins, Kelce was in a position to meet the whole ladies’s hockey group — together with Laila Edwards, one other Cleveland Heights native whose household was helped to Milan by a donation from the Kelce brothers.
“After talking to her, you realize she is from the Heights,” Kelce stated. “There’s just like this humbleness but also she’s a great person and it comes across very apparent when you speak to her. … They’re a great team, man. They’re tightknit. They’re playing jokes on one another. Just so proud for all of them. It’s an incredible moment to win a gold medal, especially in a team sport like that.”
Speed skating vs. determine skating
Kelce attended the brief program for determine skating and he had only one advice in relation to watching within the enviornment.
“I would have liked to have heard Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir announcing it live,” Kelce stated. “When you don’t have that, especially for someone newer to the sport, you like to hear the excitement in the announcer’s voice that they just did something difficult or they just nailed a routine or they just missed something.”
But when it got here to hurry skating, Kelce had no notes.
“In speed skating, it is a [expletive] party in that speed skating arena,” Kelce stated. “There’s DJ’s playing music. It’s fast paced, there’s bells ringing, it is high-stakes action in the speed skating short track.”
Kelce even had the possibility to fulfill Apolo Ohno, a pace skating legend and eight-time medalist.
“Apolo, we watched him all growing up,” Kelce stated. “Unbelievable speed skater. … Speed skating was electric as [expletive]. … These things were fast paced, they were moving. They’re doing Tush Pushes because we saw the relay version where they get in there and push the [expletive] of the guy in front of them.”