Torino!!

[dreamshark]

Richard and I have been enjoying the heck out of the Winter Olympics this year. Nobody could possibly call either of us sports fans, but the Olympics is more like watching dance performances. Especially the winter olympics, which is all about doing insane things on very slippery surfaces while wearing skin-tight spandex. For a normal person that has trouble staying upright while walking down icy steps, it is just mind-boggling to see what the human body can do. Although the skating is the most beautiful, the ski jumps are the most astounding. Essentially, these people are being shot out of a cannon with long cumbersome boards fastened to their feet, and they not only survive this nightmare once, they do it OVER and OVER and OVER again. And almost none of them die.

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[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

It is nothing short of astounding, I agree.

K.