From the sickbed (well, sick computer chair)

[kierthos]

Yes, I'm going back to bed soon, assuming I don't need to get up to throw up (again).

But before I go... can someone explain to me why curling is a sport? I mean, seriously. What the fuck? I actually watched some of this the other day, and the guys doing this looked like no kind of athlete I've ever seen. One of them, I swear, had a beer-belly.

Don't get me wrong, I can easily see that there is some level of skill involved, but there's a level of skill involved in playing pinball, and that fucker isn't at either the Summer or Winter Olympics. It's just... I don't know... any "sport" that depends just as much on a couple guys with glorified ice-scrapers as the guy actually moving the whatsis (rock? Is that what it's called?)... well, it's just not the same as say, soccer, or pole-vaulting, or something like that. Those are sports. Those are athletic endeavors just a bit more worthy of being Olympic events...

Comments

[wiredwizard.livejournal.com]

I used to be a curler, and I agree with you completely that it's not really a "sport" or at least not an Olympic sport. We called it "the easy way to escape having to go cross country running on sports days in winter term."

It's still better than the idea of Olympic Chess they've been talking about though...

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Olympic Chess? Oy vey...

I'm just waiting for some American Olympic coach to realize that if he could train an Ozark hillybilly to ski very well, they'd win the biathlon gold medal every time.

[(Anonymous)]

I still think that the best curling team would be 4 65 year old retired guys who currently live in Florida. It just seems so much like shuffleboard, and that's all they play all day long until they play cards at night. Or rather, that's what my grandfather did for the last 15 years of his life. I bet he could beat the crap out of any Olympic curling team.

But I totally understand the idea of some level of physical fitness being involved in going to the Olympics.
-GTF

[have-you-seen.livejournal.com]

Well it's teaching people to... umm... like sweep stuff. Apparently after years of not even recognicing it as a sport we are doing great in the olympics. Sweep sweep shuffle shuffle?