(Rant) American coverage of the Olympics

[August]

Curling is cool. I love sports that don't require a special physical ability.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by August

Curling is cool. I love sports that don't require a special physical ability.

The women's US curling team is hot

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

The women's US curling team is hot

I find this a bit insane:


That is the photo of Madeline Dupont, a member of the Danish curling team. She is SINGLE, and using the INTERNET to find dates!! She is neither ugly and/or fat and/or old, so why is she using the internet? *boggle*

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

That is the photo of Madeline Dupont, a member of the Danish curling team. She is SINGLE, and using the INTERNET to find dates!! She is neither ugly and/or fat and/or old, so why is she using the internet? *boggle*

Are you assuming that only ugly fat or old people use the internet for meeting people?

Thanks a lot! I met my lady on the internet. Since she was only 35 at the time, I am sure she will appreciate you calling her either fat or ugly.

People use the internet to be introduced to people they normally would not meet.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by August

Curling is cool. I love sports that don't require a special physical ability.

I thought it very strange that it is still segregated by sex. Why?

EDIT: same deal on shooting at the summer games

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

I thought it very strange that it is still segregated by sex. Why?

EDIT: same deal on shooting at the summer games

I think if the women are good enough they can have a go against the men. I remember one chinese woman actually beating all the men in skeet shooting.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

I think if the women are good enough they can have a go against the men. I remember one chinese woman actually beating all the men in skeet shooting.

Maybe segregating the sexes in some sports is a way to protect male egos?

[August]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

I thought it very strange that it is still segregated by sex. Why?

EDIT: same deal on shooting at the summer games

I dunno. Are there any Olympic sports where women and men compete against each other?

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by August

I dunno. Are there any Olympic sports where women and men compete against each other?

I don't think so.

You know, in sailing (a summer sport), a woman's lesser weight would actually be an advantage (in some ways, not so in others). However, a man's brawn would be better for things like changing rigging, etc.

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Hey!!! Speak of the devil!!!

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/van...urn=oly,221320

Looks like I misspelled her name.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by August

Curling is cool. I love sports that don't require a special physical ability.

I think you are selling curling a bit short. It is a sport of finesse, where winning is measured in fractions of degrees and ounces of force. It is not a sport where one can brute strength your way through.

[August]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I think you are selling curling a bit short. It is a sport of finesse, where winning is measured in fractions of degrees and ounces of force. It is not a sport where one can brute strength your way through.

Never said it was though. What I meant was that old, fat, out of shape guys like me can curl just as well as the young and fit as long as we have the right "touch".

[Gotland]

To answer the OP's question:

Here where i live (Sweden) i feel is kinda the opposite.

The national channel (SVT, a public service channel) shows the olympics live through out the day (and night).

For me, who dislikes winter and being currently in one of the snowiest, longest, and coldest winters in Sweden for 20 years, and having virtually no interest in winter sports, i get a little bit tired of the Olympics.

SVT's regular shows and movies are cancelled alot in favor of olympics live coverage. But not only for the game itself, they show "experts" making analysis, afteranalysis, slowmotion inspection of footages, discussing "tragedies" of athletes hurt knees and cold infections and etc. I wish there was this much coverage and discussion during the Nobel Prizes.

The newspapers main articles also revolve around the Olympics.

Im a little tired of it, as you can see.
SVT should have a temporary seperate channel for the olympics, and keep the regular programming on the original channels. Because SVT1 and 2 have basically become "Olympics channel".

[ReFaN]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I think you are selling curling a bit short. It is a sport of finesse, where winning is measured in fractions of degrees and ounces of force. It is not a sport where one can brute strength your way through.

watched curling once or twice, feel asleep both times.

[Highbury]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I think you are selling curling a bit short. It is a sport of finesse, where winning is measured in fractions of degrees and ounces of force. It is not a sport where one can brute strength your way through.

It’s not just a rock. It’s forty-two pounds of polished granite, with a beveled underbelly and a handle a human can hold. In and of itself it looks like it has no practical purpose but it’s a... a repository.. of human possibility. And when it's handled just right, it exacts a kind of poetry. As close to poetry as I ever want to get. The way it moves. The way it can be moved, for ten years I've -- well, I've been around. I've drilled for oil on five continents. I’ve been in 93 countries and not once have I ever done anything that equals the grace of a well-thrown rock as it slides down a sheet. Seeing the sort of effort that a rink puts into guiding that stone. Not once, in everything I've done, have I ever felt the same wonder and humanity as when I'm playing the game of curling.

~ Men With Brooms