If I was gonna go 90 miles-per-hour down an ice chute, I sure would.
I’ve decided that any events that are “score” based by judges are silly trick competitions that don’t belong in the olympics. I’ll give two passes though based on grandfathering them in, gymnastics and figure skating.
The rest need to go. None of this snowboard half-pipe, freestyle hotdog skiing, synchronized swimming, or even diving.
I want to see longest, fastest, furthest, highest competitions or head-to-head sports.
Probably because the traits that make for a good athlete make for improved genetic success (obviously, there would be outliers). You’ve been bred over generations to lust after star athletes.
The air-head blonde stereotype aside, I find that generally the more intelligent a person is, the more attractive there are also.
Joe
I imagine they do memorize parts as they do have practice runs.
The Pixar animators based Frozone’s skating style on Davis’s unique one with his swinging arms, so yes.
Excellent link – thanks!
If you saw the video of the poor french girl who fell over 20 feet from the start of the women’s downhill, you might be asking yourself, “Am I going to hell for laughing at that?”
I said this in the curling thread, but I was amused that there was a bald-headed guy who was “curling”.
I was repeatedly amused, while watching the US-Germany men’s match, by the announcers constantly using the full name of German skipper, Andy Kapp.
They absolutely do memorize the course. That’s why they take training runs.
Do yourself a favor; do not watch the Denmark match.
By several accounts, this does not go unnoticed by the athletes themselves, and I’ve heard that towards the end of the games, the Olympic Village turns into one giant international Sexapalooza.
The announcer just said something about the Chinese “strict snowboard training regimen”.
I know snowboarding is an athletic sport that requires a lot of training but somehow the terms “strict regimen” and “snowboarding” just don’t sound right together. 
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Curling women turn me on. It hardly even matters whether they’re attractive or not.
My wife calls Curling “The Ice-Tirades” 'cause of all the yelling and shouting.
Damn near wet my pants laughing at that.
The vice-skip on the U.S. team is just staggeringly cute.
You have to yell, though. The ice has a pebbled surface, so the sliding rock makes kind of a rumbling, rolling sort of noise. The mics don’t pick that up. With the crowd, the other games going on, and the sliding rock, you have to yell to be heard.
QFT. Sorry I don’t have anything more meaningful to add to this sentiment, but it’s pretty much spot-on.
This year’s quota stayed steady from Bejing 2008 at 100,000 condoms. Same raw amount, but more condoms per athlete due to lower participation in the winter games. Guess they have to keep warm somehow.
That was bizzare. She just kind of fell over. 
It’s not his fault. He’s just distracted by the Norwegian team’s pants
The Russian Curling Women are gorgeous.