This winter Olympics thingy they’re making such a big fuss about on television.
It has something to do with sliding around a lot, right?
It’s so much more satisfying to watch a sport when you understand it.
Best wishes,
Jerry
Oh. I thought it was about brightly colored Spandex. My mistake.
It’s about people moving from one point to another on either snow or ice, either inside things or with funny things strapped to their feet.
It’s about selling shit, like every other form of television.
I’ll buy that 
We have a winner. I haven’t watched any television so who are the current “official sponsors of the 2006 Winter Olympics” in the US?
Coke? Pepsi? Budweiser? Ford? Chevy? Everyone, jumping on the bandwagon?
If Smirnoff Ice didn’t get in on the sponsorship deal, their Marketing Director should resign.
Not the educational channel… they sell great stuff like “Best of British Humour” tea cozies and “Anne of Green Gables” dolls and videos of the show that’s on right now (in case you don’t have a VCR to record it yourself).
Once you’ve heard the seal joke it’s downhill all the way.
When I was a kid, we only had three channels and watching the Olympics was a big deal. Now there are many more channels and I get bored pretty quickly with all the snow events…
This is why I watch the Olympics!
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Ah, but curling (another of those innovative Scottish games, like golf and haggis hurling) is about people moving rocks from one point to another on ice. Now that is a sport worthy of the Olympic Games.
To be honest, since I saw the movie Men With Brooms a few years back, I’ve started paying more attention to curling. There’s some real strategy to the game, which is a nice contrast to the usual “get there first” style of most Olympic events.
I like the skeleton and the luge…
there’s something about sliding down a pipe at 80mph on nothong but a bit of metal…
Living in Utah and Canada, I’ve been into a lot of winter sports, and I can understand one’s motivation for getting into them, and I have no doubt that lugers and skeleton-ers (?) are seriously dedicated to their sports, but man you gotta be drunk or crazy to start those!
Even more the Aerials. There is an added incentive to land with the aerials. If you don’t land…your dead…at this point who cares about the medal..if you survive..thats an accomplishment in its self
http://cms.nortia.org/Org/Org38/groups/Sport%20Profiles/winter/pics/smith1st.jpg
I would have thought that if you didn’t land you’d go into orbit… 
I enjoy the winter olympics far more than the summer.
What bugs me is when the coverage highlights some athletes (usually figure skaters) practicing [Kwan, Michelle] and won’t cover entire sports because they are obscure. That’s just entirely lame.
that and the politics involved in any “Judged” sport.
I loved the shot of the aerialist who lost his skis mid-air. Priceless!
djm
I did some reading on curling and it looks kind of cool. I’d like to watch some if I can determine when they’ll be televised.
The women’s finals are almost over (perhaps are already over?), and the men’s are sometime today or tomorrow, I think. CBC (a Canadian channel we get on cable here in Seattle) has shown some curling. I think the only US channel that has shown any is CNBC (cable only, unfortunately).
Yeah, I have really got into Curling. Aparently, there is a curling club here in town. I plan to be checking it out.