Yep, the other 99% of the time they're janitors not "athletes"
Curling is more of a sport than figure skating, that's for sure.
Not only is figuring skating the worst/least fav, it's always on in prime time! WTF?
They feature events the USA has a passing chance to medal in. Curling doesn't get primetime. Why? Cause the Mericans suck at it.
Male ice dancing? Ding ding ding! Have three hours full.
If a group of stoners can do good at it, American's have a chance...hence the x-game style events.
my two daughters just loooove figure skating, last night we got to watch 'ice dancing' while I respect their athletic skills, It doesn't make me want to gouge my eyes out any less.
Bobsled, Skeleton and Luge are my favorite events to watch, I have issues with freestyle skiing/snowboarding, moguls skiing and half pipe snow boarding since they rely so much on a judging for subjective scoring rather than objective performance. Snowboard cross however is an event I think is olympic worthy, no style points just the first one there. As much as I like ski jumping it also bothers me that there is subjective judging for technique and style. Biathlon is pretty amazing and as boring as cross country is to watch it's amazing how hard they drive themselves. But I truly detest figure skating and ice dancing as a sport, I really enjoy watching good skaters perform in shows but as a medal sport I think it's asinine.
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