Some of these sports are silly, though. I mean, really. Two man luge? The top guy lying on the bottom guy, both of them flat on their backs, careening down an ice chute? Why not eight-man luge? Just stack 'em up, keeping the stack together would be real exciting.
And really -- this one is going to get me in trouble, I know -- if you don't know who won until some judge holds up a card or enters a number on a computer, it's not a sport. Now listen. I am not saying it doesn't require incredible skill, grace, strength, what have you. I am not saying the participants are not athletes, even. I am certainly not saying this stuff should not exist. But it's not a sport. I mean, really. Ice dancing? Dancing is an art. Has been an art for thousands of years. Doing it on ice doesn't change that. And when it's Russians dressed up as faux Australian aborigines or Americans ice dancing a Moldavian folk dance, it's REALLY not a sport.
All these judged "sports" are too subjective. A real sport may require umps or refs, but you know who won when the contest is over. We didn't have to sit around after the SuperBowl saying, "well, the Saints scored more points, but the Colts attempted more long passes, so their degree of difficulty was harder, and the judges will certainly give Dwight Feeney points for that triple spin move, even though he didn't get the sack. It could be close..."
I propose a new sport for the next Winter Olympics. A REAL sport. Ice football. Played exactly the same way as real (American) football, except everyone is on ice skates. I mean, we have field hockey and ice hockey, why not field football and ice football? Just think of the excitement as Peyton Manning skates backward to get off the pass and those speed skaters on the D-line come flashing after him while his wideouts do spins and triple axels trying to lose the CBs... most exciting sport EVER!!!
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And Rugby played in snow is fun, but messy.
I also feel that cross country skiing is fairly boring, and should probably have some fencing with ski poles involved at some point, but that's just me.
Please do not judge me for this, as I am a real fanatic of your work and in case you'd hated me, I'd be heartbroken, but...
...American football isn't a real manly sport. I mean, common, there's teams and they switch them in and out and the game gets stopped so that the respective teams can move into the field and they keep stopping and stopping and stopping. And then, when you're really excited that something is happening, they stop again. And the players are all dressed up in all those protective clothes. No bloody noses, no nothing.
Watch some European football (not soccer). They play in their shorts. And they don't keep switching teams. They just go in and play till the last man stands!!
I hate those, can still remember the real short shorts used quite some years ago.
Precisely
The Japanese 2 woman bob was georgeous though
http://fashion.3yen.com/2010-02-24/japa
I should have thought it would be obvious from the name that the game which the unenlightened refer to as soccer is real football - which game involves more contact between ball and foot? :p
Field footbal IS violent, so if you do it on ice, I think you'd have to include the casualty rate in the scoring somehow :)
They could however do all these a bit like weight lifting, by increasing degrees of difficulty until everyone fails but 1 person.
I never understood why people watched team sports on TV. I can understand enjoying playing team sports, I can understand watching if your friends or family are on the field, but I can only assume that caring if your city's pro-team wins or loses must be some sort of side effect of our evolutionary hertiage and I just missed out on a gene. On the other hand, I could tell which sports season it was by how loud my mother yelled at the TV.
it's the Olympic sport a Dutch woman got Olympic Gold in when I was just old enough to realize there was something as the Winter Olympics, so it's a sport for that reason alone
I see a bit of trouble with Ice Football.
as it would be exclusively be a USA sport as Football - the only sport that was invented to fit between commercial breaks - is, in contrast to Soccer.
Soccer on Ice would be a bit inconvenient, it's hard to kick and not puncture a ball with sharp skates on.
ps. Ithink elundin means Rugby, Football is more related to Rugby then to Soccer.
But there are so many sports in both winter and summer Olympics that have subjective judging, I think you'd have to create a lot more events to fill the schedule. That, or take out the subjectivity part - judge ski jump on distance only, possibly diving too, and mark half-pipe, gymnastics, moguls etc. by a much more transparent scoring system - this many points added or taken away for such and such an action... in much the same way as recently happened with figure skating.
Can you imagine the lacerations the teams would inflict and endure? Either from the skates or spikes the players would be wearing.
At least then there would be a real reason for play stopping, they'd need to be stitched up, instead of having the usual chat and a soda.
Edited at 2010-03-01 09:26 am (UTC)
Ice Tiddlywinks!
Ice Snooker!
Ice Croquet!
Bring it on.
Amount is Olympics watched this year: Zero minutes. Score!