Lindsey Vonn is one of my favorite winter Olympians.
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They should add an ice/snow rally race event to the winter olympics. That would be cool.
Now you're talking...
Aw man, that would be awesome. snow instead of dirt, daddy likes.
Nobody ever fought a war from a dogsled.
I meant it. The games--traditionally--are a test of combat skills. Swordsmanship, spear-throwing, archery, firearms, hand-to-hand combat, running (useful both to immediate combatants and for command-and-control when messengers were the only decent way to communicate; look up the history of the marathon), swimming (naval/marine combat), horsemanship (cavalry), etc. Skiing makes sense for alpine troops, the biathlon even more so. Weightlifting--raw strength, from when combat was hand-to-hand. Other games have been added, but even they are just a proxy for combat: move a marker past an objective while the opposition tries to stop you.
Look at the history of the events, and the "softer" events are all more recent additions (typically post-1980, though a few came earlier). The modern games started just before the turn of the century, and were largely combat-related events, a throwback to the ancient games.
Except for that part of WWII where we did.
And the athletes were traditionally Greek, naked, and unbathed
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