Better know an Olympian

With the Olympics coming up, we were interested in finding out some more about some of the Americans going to the games. So we will be doing some brief bios on some Olympians who you should be keeping an eye out for come February.

Curling:

Before we get started, I think its important to note that the US Men's Olympic Curling team qualified for Sochi a month ago with a big win at a competition in Germany, apparently it was a winner goes to the Olympics final where our boys beat the Czech Republic, proving they have the grit to win in big games. So thankfully we have a team at the games, whose honorary captain is Vernon Davis which is just awesome. 

The team is a real hodge-podge of characters, a brief bio was found at olympictalk.nbc.com

"John Shuster, the 31-year-old is the manager of Pickwick Restaurant & Pub in Duluth, Minn. He’ll be joined in Sochi by his vice skip, two-time Olympian Jeff Isaacson, a science teacher from Gilbert, Minn. The team also includes first-time Olympians John Landsteiner, a 23-year-old engineer from Duluth, and Jared Zezel, a 22-year-old Bemidji State student."

They've got wily veterans, young guns bringing that first Olympics enthusiasm, all of their name's begin with J they've got the makings of legends. For our bio we'll take age before beauty and have a look at the youngest team member, Jared Zezel:

J-Z at first glance seems like a pretty standard guy, his twitter @JaredZezel04 has a similar look to that of Colin Kaepernicks (when he was still a backup), some pictures of kittens, some pictures with his girlfriend (sorry ladies), and some tweets about his geographical location. He seems to have the self confidence of a much older curler, which should serve him well in Sochi.

Strengths: Granite jaw, has more followers on Twitter and people he's following (a true sign of celebrity), and he follows John Daly on Twitter.

Weaknesses: We all know that the Russians have a history of using beautiful women to seduce powerful foreigners, and that coupled with the revelations at the London games for the amount of sex that happens in the Olympic village, I think J-Z is a likely target for sexual espionage. Being a young gun on the big stage for the first time (with high expectations), he'll be an easy target for a honeypot trap. Is he strong enough to tell his girlfriend he just had a five-way with four Russian supermodel spies in the morning, and still land the clinching stone to take gold from the Soviets in the gold medal game? I'm sure we'll find out.

Overall: He's the spark-plug that this team needs to go all the way, he hasn't been beaten down by the curling buracracy for as long as the captains, so if they start to lose faith, J-Z along with John Landsteiner (Jamie Lanister) will remind them why they fell in love with the game in the first place.