Winter Olympic Fun
By Wink
The Winter Olympics are now over. Did you enjoy them? Did you watch ANY of it?
I did, and am startled to announce my personal conversion: The winter games are more fun than the summer games.
Can’t believe it? I can hardly believe it either. I have always been one (of the many) who trash talk about how lame the winter games are.
But they are NOT lame. They are way more interesting than the summer games.
Let us start with the obviously fun events: ski jumping, the aerial jumps, short track & long track racing, hockey, half pipe (and ALL snowboarding events), slalom & moguls skiing, luge, skeleton and bobsled.
Those events are entertaining regardless of who is competing, but the wacky X-game additions are especially fun to watch. There is not NEARLY as much crashing in the summer games.
But I had a good time with lots of other events, even the curling. Okay, curling doesn’t elevate your blood pressure, but sort of draws you in anyway, like watching poker on TV.
The Nordic skiing events were all pretty good, but especially fun was the skiing and shooting event called the biathlon. Skiing and shooting…. Gotta love it…
Imagine how much I would like the Winter Olympics if I cared even the slightest bit about figure skating! Which I don’t!
I liked how much fun Canada seemed to have hosting it (note especially the goofy closing ceremonies). Nobody makes more fun of Canada than Canadians.
Everybody tells me how beautiful Vancouver is. Now I believe them.
Maybe I enjoyed this so much because I have been cooped up inside too long this winter and just needed visual evidence of some physical activity other than shoveling.
It makes no difference. The winter games, minute for minute, are better than the summer games. We will see if I change my mind in two years…
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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