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Column: US drops the coin on flag bearer at Winter Olympics

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — Shani Davis would've been a fitting choice to carry the American flag into the Olympic opening ceremony, a superb athlete who helped break racial barriers at the Winter Games.

Someone sure dropped the coin on this one.

The U.S. Olympic Committee, an organization that never passes up a chance to shoot itself in the foot, came up with a voting process that could quite plausibly end in a tie.

It did, of course.

And how was the deadlock broken?

With the flip of a coin.

Whether it was heads or tails, we may never know.