Watching two nights from my hotel in Bishop, CA, Friday and Saturday, home again Sunday night.
I was going to say no event where nobody ever falls can really be a sport, but the Canadian ice dancing couple who fell painfully in the last few seconds, and then the two Italian teams both sprawling on the ice in their programs, send me to find other reasons to disqualify this goofy event. Maybe the vulgar costumes. Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto may be the most attractive pair ever to hit the ice, but her original dance program costume was more than vulgar. Was that a fake thong? Like a thong dickey?
The second half of the program of Barbara and Maurizio, the second Italian pair, started with a bossa nova, which is not even a dance, moving to a samba which looked nothing like samba whatsover.
Can I just say that I also hate freestyle skiing of all kinds, and then I’ll say nothing else negative about entire medal events? Halfpipe, snowboard cross, ice dancing, freestyle skiing, moguls. Can ’em all.
Luge, skeleton, and bobsled are almost impossible to make interesting on television, short of a crash, but I admire them as sports.
Ski jumping is too cool for words. I wish they’d figure out a way to televize it so as to give some sense of the scale and the view from the stands. The cams on the track don’t do it for me. Ski jumpers are so waif-like, like flying skiing fairies.
Winter Olympics, last couple of days
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