I’d rather watch 48 types of sliding than three types of jumping and twenty types of running.
And the dozens of ball sports.
You forgot 18 kinds of swimming
Isn’t swimming just… you know, a kind of running ?
It’s just running and swimming with every distance between 100m and 1 lap around the Earth
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I actually prefer the winter ones too, they are more fun.
Youre totally missing out on the fancy horse dancing
Actually id rather see that on ice also
Don’t forget a dozen types of throwing!
And maybe a couple types of lifting?
think I would classify all kinds of throwing under lifting
What is lifting if not making things run?
Damn. Is everything some kind of running ?
Chess is not running.
Hey some of that sliding involves guns.
USA has entered the chat.
I don’t think the US is doing very hot in biathlon
Which is weird because in biathlon you shoot at black targets. Seems like the not-so-native Americans would excel at it
That’s because they won’t add a machine gun version
There is a Venn diagram of fat fucks, gun owners and skiing athletes and I reckon the US isn’t in the part of it that generates biathlon champions.
I live near a couple biathlon ranges/Nordic ski areas in rural America. The fat gun guys do not ski. But the skiers sometimes shoot, problem is mountain biking is more fun in the off season
No more snow reliably, where I leave in France. Breaks my fucking heart.
I’m more of an alpine skier (whatever it’s called in English, sorry), but I’d love to give biathlon a try cause it sure adds a bit of fun to the whole running around on skis :)
Are you implying that all sports can be made better by adding some pew pew’s? You may have a point.
I don’t think pew pews are real yet. Biathalon uses bang bangs. Or maybe boom booms. Jury’s still out.
I mean, if they had to hit a target going off one of those slolum jumps…
Or you could rocket jump for more hang time. Only once, though.
Once is all you need.
I really thought it said Special Olympics instead of Summer
To me the Winter Olympics is all about curling. Slide those rocks!
Trivia time: in what country did curling originate?
Evidence that curling existed in Scotland in the early 16th century includes a curling stone inscribed with the date 1511 found (along with another bearing the date 1551) when an old pond was drained at Dunblane, Scotland. The world’s oldest curling stone and the world’s oldest football are now kept in the same museum (the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum) in Stirling. The first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, in February 1541. Two paintings, “Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap” and “The Hunters in the Snow” (both dated 1565) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, depict Flemish peasants curling.
Well, it’s no fun if you look it up!
it wasn’t fun indeed.
i linked it for those who wouldn’t even look it up.
It was very fun to read, but I never would have looked it up. Thank you!
I did not have fun reading it. Thanks for ruining my day.
I did not have fun reading it. Thanks for ruining my day.
if reading that ruined your day, i feel like it might be fun to read about your day. What did you do today? (or what did the day do to you?)
I was having a great day, the sun was shining, I felt great and was about to find a cure against cancer. While I was at 95% of making a break through I thought why not have a well deserved little break. So there was me sitting outside in the sun, having a cup of freshly pressed orange juice I read this story. It was a sharp and fast drive to rock bottom. After crippling depression has rendered me unable to keep up further with the daily struggles of life, my wife decided to leave me. My 3 children looked me straight into the eyes and told me that I have failed them, not only as a father but as a human. My neighbour started clapping. After I got a notice on Teams that I was layed off as a direct consequence, I was just unable to continue my work on the cancer antidote. It was then that my landlord had informed me that I have another 5 minutes to clear out the apartment, after that the utility guys are coming, exchanging the lock and throwing everything away they still find.
I was sitting outside in the snow that started to turn into mud while it rained. I called my parents in hope that I could maybe get some shelter there, but unfortunately they both died from severe disgrace after I explained them what happened.
This good damn story, why did I read it, I should’ve known better, I should have seen how awful fucking long it was going to be to tell a simple joke with endless of unnecessary details. Who is the real victim in this story? Is it the dog? The car owner? Or is it the reader that wasted his time at best and got kicked into a spiral of misery at worst.
You got me! Without looking it up, I’d guess… Norway?
That would be incorrect.
Tap for answer
It is Scotland
Oh ho! All the great sports get invented there!
I’m glad you now have this knowledge! I got it from a mug I bought where you scan a QR code for a daily piece of trivia. Good to know it is useful.
Like golf!
Curlistan!!!
One has hockey, so one is objectively better.
Both have hockey
found the rare individual who actually watches the olympics
Summer has field hockey, sure, but that’s just a variant. Only one has hockey.
Field hockey?? You mean hockey? Of which ice hockey is a variant?
Arguing with a Canadian about hockey isn’t going to get either of us anywhere.
What are your thoughts on roller hockey?
Never played it. I am a big fan of floor hockey though. Used to play all the time.
But both have hockey…
Lindsey Vonn is going to slide a very high speeds with one titanium knee and a torn ACL on the other…at 41. Absolute insanity.
And another knee injury just a few days ago. News said she was airlifted out during a practice. Wants still to go to opening ceremonies.
Yes, that’s the torn ACL I just mentioned. She’s racing with it fully torn.
I was sure she was finished when I saw she was airlifted! She’s still trying to compete?! Mad lass!
I mean, why not? It’s probably not as if she’s got some other more important future event to heal up for.
(INB4 she un-retires again for 2030.)
Too much gymnastics vs Too much ice skating. Show me skeleton, luge, and hockey!
I prefer the sports that have a more measurable outcome to the sports that rely on opinions from judges
Absolutely. Any time there are judges giving scores there can be shenanigans.
Too much ice skating.
Show me […] hockey!
Well, make up your mind!
Should’ve said figure skating but you probably just wanted to be an ass.
They absolutely should make winter versions of summer sports. Like Ice Basketball.
Diving
Honey, we cant let our kids play baskiceball. Its like, insanely dangerous
yeah, what are the rules to that sport anyways?
There are no rules baby, we just wail on each other
You mean this?
There is ice tennis too.
Doing a backflip: enthusiastic applause
Doing a backflip on ice skates: eye-rolls, bored face, getting up to leave
Not only is it SNL, its the weekend update without Norm
The potential danger in the bobsleigh events makes it way more thrilling to watch than anything in the summer olympics.
I watch Skeleton for 2 reasons:
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Those dudes are hot and those suits hide nothing. (Stupid_Sexy_Flanders.gif)
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I hope one day to see a man flung out of a corner into the crowd at 150kph.
I don’t think you want number 2. I’m pretty sure video still exists of the luge athlete who went off the track in Vancouver and that was a bad time.
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Imma leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaWnwWrVjw0
That’s not unlike criticizing some national cuisine lol. From the surface, yeah, most of them share these several characterizing aspects to them, but you’d die several times before finding an end to a discussion concerning things like pizza.
