> I missed the biathalon, which is my favorite weird sport. Skiing and sharpshooting. What an odd combination. Why not skiing and, oh, juggling? You'd see cross-country skiers swish around with three bowling pins strapped to their backs rush into the first station where three flaming olympic torches await them. Then you could do team biathalon -- two skiers from the same nation must arrive at the stations and do juggling passes between each other. At the last station they'd get a volunteer from the stands and throw flaming torches around them, just like at RenFair.
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Ooh. Fire. Hehe. :)


> The bobsled (bobsleigh) event fascinates me. Everyone but the driver contributes nothing but weight to the team. Heck, I could win an olympic medal. The athletes train in expensive facilities, all sorts of research is done to create the fastest runners, the lightest and most aerodynamic sled, to determine the fastest line to take in the course. Then they steer by pulling on a rope. The high-tech/low-tech dichotomy makes me laugh.

Bobsled (Bobsleigh) is actually my favorite Olympic sport. I suppose it's that whole "race down an ice-covered track at breakneck speed without actually breaking one's neck" thing that gets me. And the U.S. actually MEDALED this year! WOOHOO!


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> Luge used to be the coolest sporting event at the olympics, but it's been surpassed by Skeleton. The only way luge could be cooler is if they put a pole right in the middle of the track somewhere past the finish line. You've got to luge fast enough to win, but be able to stop before you rack yourself.

LOL! That would RULE!

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> Skeleton looked so cool. I want to go to one of the nations that didn't send any athletes to the winter games (like Freedonia) and be their skeleton entrant. If I was about 24, I'd say something here about how hot Tristan Gale is, but I'm not, so I won't. Anyway, it's about time they reintroduced sledding to the olympics. I mean, they've had "ice dancing" for how many years? Yeah, right. Like that's a sport. Anyway again, the only way skeleton could be even cooler is if the athletes were on fire. Or they had ramps and had to shoot through hoops. While they were on fire. Then it would be cooler than Rack'em Luge.


Okay, you would officially make the Olympics WAY cooler. I nominate you for the IOC in Italy in four.


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> The best part about speed skating was when Australia's Stephen Bradbury won the gold medal for being the only one who didn't fall down. That was great! The only reason he qualified for the medal round was he didn't fall down in the earlier race, despite being five laps behind everyone else. Technically, he should have finished twelfth. That guy was fanastic. Australia should make a statue of that guy.


Speed skating is rapidly becoming my number two favorite Winter Olympic sport. The whole Australian thing did rock. And though I live in the US, after we broke over 20+ medals, I started rooting for other teams just so we wouldn't hog them all. The U.S. could stand a little humility from time to time, after all...


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> Never was it more evident that Second Place is really a nice way of saying First Loser than in the hockey competitions. Every other sport, when the silver medalists won, they were all "Yippee!" and "Yay!". Not in hockey. It's got to be because this was the only sport where two -- and only two -- sides were competing against each other. Every other sport had multiple athletes competing against a clock or were judged by people ranking things like "technical merit", "performance", and "air". Despite being from south of the border, I was glad to see Canada win the gold in both women's and men's ice hockey. Heck, I just happy to see Modano and Hull play for the same team again.


See my above post. This occured after we broke the 30+ mark. Go Canada!


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