Curling is awesome. The Norwegian curlers should get gold just for those epically awesome pants they wear.
And some of these female curlers are rather attractive.
Curling, Hockey, all skiing, bobsled, skeleton, luge, and speed skating should be the only olympic sports. Get rid of figure skating. It's for pooftahs.
And the only Summer Olympic sports should be women's beach volleyball, diving, basketball, baseball, LFS, and a couple Marathons because we can.
In the case of hockey, instead of naming the teams after countries such as USA or Canada, why not give them more truthful names, such as National Hockey League Team #1, National Hockey League Team #2, ...
Who came up with the idea of short track speed skating? It's not like they have short track sprinting in the summer olympics. Then again, the USA does have arena football in converted hockey stadiums. Apparently a place for those not competitive in real speed skating or real football venues.
Then there's biathlon, guns and skiing? Some tv announcer made a comment about having guns in hockey games. Now that could be interesting, using rubber bullets though, and using the rifles instead of hockey sticks, I might watch that.
And then there's curling. Will that mean that summer olympics will end up having shuffleboard, both full size and bar size events as well as lawn bowling and croquet someday? Curling is to winter sport as drifting is to motorsport.
Biathlon is awesome. The reason they use guns, is that the sport originates from the military. It was used as an exercise for the Norwegian soldiers, and in the first winter olympics it was called military patrol.
How is that more truthful? With the exceptions of Canada and USA, whose players are all from NHL (correct me if I'm wrong), most teams include players from KHL and local leagues as well. Even Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czech Rep, who afaik all could put a team together from only NHL players if they wanted to. Although you could call Latvia "Dinamo Riga". I think they have 16 players from there.
A bit odd that the UK, which consists of 4 countries, are competing as 1 nation in the Olympics. If Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark competed as Scandinavia, it would almost be the same, but we don't
This just crossed my mind while watching the curling match now between GBR and Norway, and hearing the Scottish accent.
Nope, the UK is 4 countries in much the same way the USA is 50 countries - England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are states in all but name. Nobody has an English passport for example, we are all citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.