I’d rather watch 48 types of sliding than three types of jumping and twenty types of running.
It's just running and swimming with every distance between 100m and 1 lap around the Earth
You forgot 18 kinds of swimming
Isn't swimming just... you know, a kind of running ?
I actually prefer the winter ones too, they are more fun.
Don't forget a dozen types of throwing!
And maybe a couple types of lifting?
Youre totally missing out on the fancy horse dancing
Actually id rather see that on ice also
And the dozens of ball sports.
Hey some of that sliding involves guns.
USA has entered the chat.
I don't think the US is doing very hot in biathlon
Which is weird because in biathlon you shoot at black targets. Seems like the not-so-native Americans would excel at it
That's because they won't add a machine gun version
There is a Venn diagram of fat fucks, gun owners and skiing athletes and I reckon the US isn't in the part of it that generates biathlon champions.
Are you implying that all sports can be made better by adding some pew pew’s? You may have a point.
I mean, if they had to hit a target going off one of those slolum jumps...
To me the Winter Olympics is all about curling. Slide those rocks!
Trivia time: in what country did curling originate?
Evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 found (along with another bearing the date 1551) when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland. The world's oldest curling stone and the world's oldest football are now kept in the same museum (the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum) in Stirling. The first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541. Two paintings, "Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap" and "The Hunters in the Snow" (both dated 1565) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, depict Flemish peasants curling.
Well, it’s no fun if you look it up!
it wasn't fun indeed.
i linked it for those who wouldn't even look it up.
It was very fun to read, but I never would have looked it up. Thank you!
You got me! Without looking it up, I'd guess... Norway?
That would be incorrect.
Tap for answer
It is Scotland
Oh ho! All the great sports get invented there!
I’m glad you now have this knowledge! I got it from a mug I bought where you scan a QR code for a daily piece of trivia. Good to know it is useful.
Lindsey Vonn is going to slide a very high speeds with one titanium knee and a torn ACL on the other...at 41. Absolute insanity.
And another knee injury just a few days ago. News said she was airlifted out during a practice. Wants still to go to opening ceremonies.
Yes, that's the torn ACL I just mentioned. She's racing with it fully torn.
I was sure she was finished when I saw she was airlifted! She’s still trying to compete?! Mad lass!
They absolutely should make winter versions of summer sports. Like Ice Basketball.
Diving
Too much gymnastics vs Too much ice skating. Show me skeleton, luge, and hockey!
I prefer the sports that have a more measurable outcome to the sports that rely on opinions from judges
Absolutely. Any time there are judges giving scores there can be shenanigans.
One has hockey, so one is objectively better.
Both have hockey
found the rare individual who actually watches the olympics
Doing a backflip: enthusiastic applause
Doing a backflip on ice skates: eye-rolls, bored face, getting up to leave
The potential danger in the bobsleigh events makes it way more thrilling to watch than anything in the summer olympics.
I watch Skeleton for 2 reasons:
Those dudes are hot and those suits hide nothing. (Stupid_Sexy_Flanders.gif)
I hope one day to see a man flung out of a corner into the crowd at 150kph.
That's not unlike criticizing some national cuisine lol. From the surface, yeah, most of them share these several characterizing aspects to them, but you'd die several times before finding an end to a discussion concerning things like pizza.
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