I'm finding that the older I get, the more I realize I don't really like the Winter Olympics. Maybe I don't even like the Olympics, period.
At least for the summer, the sports seem more pure to me. You line guys up to run the 100, it's man against man. Same track, same conditions. It seems like every Winter event I watch - I can find fault with.
I watch the bobsledding and luge events and see that 37 teams all finish within 2 seconds of each other. I would love....love.....to strap two crash test dummies into a sled and send it down the track. I'm pretty sure they could get on the podium. In fact, I'm willing to bet that if had data dating back 50 years as to the combined weight of the sledders and sleds - we would begin to see a pattern for these small differences in time. Still A Fan and his one bad cat and one good cat take Bronze in 1 Human 2 Animals Bobsledding!
Ski Jump looks the same to me. Strap some skis on me which I have never done in my life and let me on that hill. I think I can beat at least one person from a warm country. Seriously! What if I'm the lucky bastard who gets a big lift from the wind at the precise time of takeoff? During one of the alpine events the first skier had perfect vision and it was a downright blizzard halfway in. How is that fair? Also, aren't there advantages, disadvantages just from the condition of the course as more skiers go?
Don't even get me started about skating. I like the racing, especially the short track but I wonder where it originated. Most likely a poor country. It's like 4 guys racing in my frozen hot tub. Just think if they did that with summer track. Cool. I just hate the judged events. Hate them. I like clear winners. That little cry baby Nancy boy sissy from Russia...Plushenko or something? I'm pretty sure my 10 year old girl can kick his whiny ass. I am so tired of him.
I'm tired of this guy Dick Buttons who has to weigh in on everything skating. Who cares? I'm tired of the opening and closing ceremonies. Does anybody remember such drama and waste from the 70's or 80's? They said Canada spent $300 million dollars on the opening ceremony and that it was a fraction of what China spent. People want me to send $ to Haiti and even donate to our starving American kids yet nobody has an issue with a 3 hour "show" costing $300 million dollars to produce? And what's with the natives dancing the ENTIRE TIME the teams were walking out? I would have killed somebody, seriously.
The Olympics have become too big for their own britches. You win a bronze medal and the first thing you are asked seconds later is if it hurts not to get the gold. For F's sake buddy....I'm the 3rd best person in the world at LUGE.....LUGE!.....let me enjoy it before this angry guy from Pennsylvania super glues a bowling ball into my...luge?....in an attempt to take my medal away from me.
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My take is that 90% of the world has never even tried any of those sports, so whose to say I'm not the best luger ever? Maybe you would be the best short track speed skater. Only the few people who live in Manitoba, South Dakota, and Norway do these sports. It's like saying you were the tallest midget on The Wizard of Oz. (Too far?)
Well at least you two guys are better lugers than that dude from the former Soviet state of Georgia who met his fate after smacking into a steel support beam at 92mph.
Pardon the pun but, these Olympics have been all downhill from there.
I'll let Bluzdude comment on whether his crash was just a random event, or if God needed him upstairs.
I'm still waiting for topless womens curling. That would draw ratings!
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