Hugh McCutcheon looks back on Beijing Games

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Times columnist Bill Dwyre reports on how U.S. men’s indoor volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon has balanced the incredible high associated with winning a gold medal during the Beijing Games and the hard reality of the shocking murder of his father-in-law at a popular tourist attraction in Beijing.

As Dwyre writes, ‘McCutcheon was thrust onto a stage where the bright lights usually blind and paralyze even the best-prepared. Not McCutcheon, who just kept doing the right thing, right to the end.’

‘There is no page in the book of life that tells you how to be a gold-medal winner and have your father-in-law murdered,’ said McCutcheon, who recently was named head coach of the women’s volleyball squad.

-- Greg Johnson