The summer olympics offers a wide array of skills and abilities in many different areas of expertise. Track and field events, swimming, and various other technical skills.

The winter olympics pretty much consist of getting to as close to accidental suicide as possible.

If you can give away a gold medal for curling, I'm going to concede that NASCAR is a sport.

Actually, in one event someone died in training. Of course, you knew this already. Its really not something to laugh it but instead seriously consider. Short of figure skating, everything here is two steps away from craziness. It seems like the only abilities you need to get into a winter Olympic sport is to be areo-dynamic and no proper sense of when you enter a dangerous situation. Even the short-track is a serious danger risk ask per the continuously played clip of the guy who cut his leg open on the track. What the heck do you expect to happen when you pack six guys gliding along with sushi knives two inches from their fingers.

For a nice change of pace I decided to watch curling. My thoughts that it’d be fairly easy to figure out were drastically wrong. There is a vernacular that requires a small dictionary and a point system that seems as half-assed as tennis. Its not hard to understand, it’s just hard to understand why.

I’ll probably stop watching it, though. Wikipedia says America isn’t doing well and that half the team is Canadian born anyways. Feels like we just got the B-team from our neighbors, and thats God damned unacceptable.