Of all the several new Olympic sports approved by the International Olympic Committee for the 2014 Olympics, none is more interesting or has drawn bigger crowds than the Bierathlon—a rigorous sport that contains the best elements of Nordic ski touring, American marksmanship and German beer drinking.
And, in what has been dubbed one of the Cinderella performances of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Stoos Views’ own Hugh Betcha—Chief of the International Sports Desk of the Stoos Views media conglomerate—took the first ever gold medal for the American team this week with a sterling performance that awed the thousands who lined the venue to witness this fledgling sport.
Hugh, whose exclusive reports on international affairs have graced the pages of the mighty Canada Free Press and many other powerful international news outlets, departed from his role as news reporter to become newsmaker as he handily won the event over his competitors. A native of Wynstone, South Dakota, Hugh’s years of cross country skiing, beer can plinking and beer drinking paid off with an accomplishment destined to land the reporter several commercial endorsements and a place on the Wheaties boxes of a generation of admiring young boys.
“I am amazed and thrilled,” Hugh told a packed crowd of international reporters. “All these years of skiing, shooting at random objects and swilling Bud Light has paid off. When I heard about this new sport I thought ‘what the heck’, why not? I just want to thank God, Bud Light, and the NRA for their backing throughout my past four years of training. Without their encouragement I could not have made it.”
“His newest book, The Wind and the Spirit (Stories of Faith and Inspiration)” was released in 2011 with all the author’s royalties go to support the Carmelite sisters.”