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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[barondave.livejournal.com]

The problem with the Winter Olympics is that so much of it doesn't seem like "sport". Luge, skeleton and the like just don't interest me at all. I agree that the jumps are "mind-boggling", but that also doesn't seem like a sport in the "fastest, strongest" sense. Heck, it looks stupid and not useful in combat; compare James Bond with XXX. The skating is beautiful, but this year was pretty disappointing. Not that I watched a lot. The games were boring enough to make me care about curling... but not a lot.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

It is nothing short of astounding, I agree.

K.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

What better can one say of a sport than "almost none of them die"?

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

And almost none of them die.

The phrase damning with faint praise rises unbidden in my mind.

For the most part, the Winter Olympics have never held much interest for me.

And as I get older, I find the same holds true for the Summer Olympics. Unless, of course, I find myself confined to a hospital while the Olympics are in progress.

It's good to hear that someone gets enjoyment from them.