Kilts at the Olympics

**Bob C** · 20th February 06, 07:34 PM

There's a Scottish skier on the GB team. NBC did a short segment on him. He was wearing the kilt and playing the pipes.

I guess his dad waits wears the kilt and plays the pipes as his son skis.

**Bob C** · 20th February 06, 07:40 PM

Addendum: His name is Finlay Mickel. Here's his website. http://www.finlaymickel.com/content.php?folder=3

I haven't found any kilted pictures, yet.

**Bob C** · 20th February 06, 07:43 PM

More:

Bagpipes make skier feel at home
Reuters

SESTRIERE, Italy, Feb 18 - Above the clanging cowbells and blaring air horns, the skirling sound of Scottish bagpipes briefly filled the air at the men's Olympic Alpine skiing venue on Saturday.

"That's my dad playing the pipes. My brother plays as well and so do I. It's nice to have him out here," said Briton Finlay Mickel after racing down the Kandahar Banchetta super-G piste to finish equal 22nd.

"I've played them since school, I travel around with them, it's a nice icebreaker," added the Scot. "Meeting people and travelling the world, its nice to have something that's your own."

**Steeplechase** · 20th February 06, 07:47 PM

Yes, I saw the segment on the piper. They also stated that the orginal curling stones were hewn from a mountain in Scotland. Sorry I don't remember which mount.

**KiltedCodeWarrior** · 20th February 06, 07:57 PM

Yes, you guys beat me to it! I just saw that segment and it was great. Kilts, pipes, and Olympic athletes!

**UmAnOnion** · 20th February 06, 08:09 PM

was at dinner in a pub nearby and saw a tartan out of the corner of my eye on the TV - couldnt hear what was being said but looked good thats for sure!

**macwilkin** · 21st February 06, 04:41 AM

Originally Posted by Steeplechase

Yes, I saw the segment on the piper. They also stated that the orginal curling stones were hewn from a mountain in Scotland. Sorry I don't remember which mount.

That would be Ailsa Craig, a small rocky island in the Firth of Clyde off of Ayrshire:

For more than 240 years, they've used regulation stones weighing 42 pounds, and each one has come from Ailsa Craig Island, off the coast of Scotland. Curler Geoffrey Broadhurst explains.

"The Ailsa Craig is an old volcano, and there's nothing there except this old volcano, They quarry the rock there, and it happens to be absolutely the hardest rock you can get. There's no pores in it, and these stones can crash into each other, and there's not a chip. These stones here have been going since 1967 and they're absolutely in great shape. They don't have any pores in it, so therefore the frost doesn't get in there to chip the stones either, so it's an amazing structure."

-- http://www.pulseplanet.com/archive/Oct02/2781.html

The UK curling team is mostly Scots as well.

Cheers,

Todd

**Kiltedmusiclover** · 21st February 06, 06:22 AM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

The UK curling team is mostly Scots as well.

Cheers,

Todd

While watching curling yesterday, the announcer said if these were the
world competitions, the UK team would be the Scottish team.

**michael steinrok** · 20th February 06, 11:48 PM

Originally Posted by Bob C.

There's a Scottish skier on the GB team. NBC did a short segment on him. He was wearing the kilt and playing the pipes.

I guess his dad waits wears the kilt and plays the pipes as his son skis.

My first thought was if he wore a kilt and piped as he skied he would have to be an olympian!

**James Martin** · 21st February 06, 02:07 AM

No kilts, but an excelent show of bold and inventive skating (ice dancing) from the Scots couple, the Kerrs, on tv last night. Bagpipe music and pas de basque to boot, and just a very ittle tartan to decorate the quite sobre costume.

Don't know what the Russians had that the Scots could not do; they should have won!

Martin S.