If you need someone else (or worse, a panel of judges) to tell you if you won (or not) you are not in a sport.To piggy back on a recent noteworthy and insightful piece that appeared on Jason Buffington’s blog (see http://buffduluth.blogspot.com/)
“Sports” that should NOT be included in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi:
*Any sport involving a “board” and/or baggy pants.
*Any sport that empowers mean, old, soviet-era former Olympians by allowing them to judge current Olympic athletes.
*Any sport that requires a commentator to rely upon any of the following terms:
Triple Salchow, Triple Lutz, Triple Axel, Quad Salchow/Toe Loop Combination, Halfpipe, Two Fakie, Double McTwist, Backside 720, the Hurricane, Inside pass and outside pass, Apolo, moguls, inverted 360, "...stuck the landing", "We will have to wait to see how the judges score that..." The judge ruled that First, Second, and Third place finishers have all been DQed..."
Laughing My B(_!_)TT off,
ReplyDeleteWith so much anger, I'm beginning to wonder if someone wasn't chosen for the ice dancing team way back when...
ReplyDeleteYes, these are not sports, but exhibitions. That makes all the participants "Exhibitionists". And that's just wrong.
ReplyDelete"With so much anger, I'm beginning to wonder if someone wasn't chosen for the ice dancing team way back when..." It is true and I will never ever ever forgive those judges...I could have been the greatest ice dancer of all time...They kept me off the team because that said my legs were too short and I lacked poise!
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Good call . . . Your legs are too short and You do lack poise . . .
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