Toby Dawson Fever Heats Up in Korea

It looks like Toby Dawson may become Hines Ward-lite after all:

South Korea discovered a new Olympic pin-up boy on Friday and it turns out he is American.

Pictures of South Korea-born Toby Dawson, who took bronze in the men’s freestyle skiing moguls, were in almost all South Korean newspapers on Friday, while scant mention was made of the two people who finished ahead of Dawson in the event.

Even though he competes for the red, white and blue of the United States, Dawson shot to celebrity status half a world away because of his birth in South Korea, where his biological Korean parents abandoned him on a doorstep.

Dawson was adopted at the age of three by a pair of ski instructors in Colorado, where he quickly shared his adopted parents’ passion for the snow-covered hills.

Papers and TV broadcasts in South Korea prominently showed two images of Dawson: the first was of his triumph in Italy and the second was a mug-shot photo of him as a toddler used by an adoption agency.

At least their hasn’t been any stories yet about bringing “Glory to Korea” or the “Motherland”. Could you imagine the media lovefest if Hines Ward and Toby Dawson took a trip to Korea together? Edit this Post | Delete this Post