Is the Winter Olympics just various types of sliding?

Nice.

And darts is target soccer.

Artillery is just long-range high-powered lethal soccer?

I have to disagree about baseball and cricket. A soccer-like sport involves trying to get the ball/puck into a goal area. In baseball and cricket, the point is to run to a goal area while AVOIDING the ball.

As Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary series put it, baseball is the only American sport in which the Defense has the ball.

I can’t speak to cricket, but in baseball the fielding team is trying to pass the ball from the pitcher to the catcher (put the thing in the thing). The batter is trying to stop that by hitting the ball into the field, like a goalie. The scoring is different/backwards yes, but that’s my take.

I think games with a single ball and a goalie are fundamentally student from games where everyone has access to a ball and isn’t allowed to improve access to the goal for the other party.

I guess curling and croquet allow you to move your opponents ball with your ball, but it feels very different.

Curling is skittles, with fewer skittles

I think you’re probably mixing up a few Bond films in your head here haha, but it’s probably The Living Daylights, where they initially make their escape in an Aston Martin, but this crashes so they blow it up and continue by sledding on a cello case (and it was in Czechoslovakia, crossing the border into Austria. The Swiss ski/snow chases were in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, I’m sure you’re dying to know).

It was the cello sledding. I recall how well the mooks in black outfits could hit the cello case and nearby trees, but not Bond & the hot girl. Thank you.

They do all sort of run together after a couple decades. :grin:

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