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Curling!!! WTF is that all about? Not very atheletic. It's .........silly.

Curling!!! WTF is that all about? Not very atheletic. It's .........silly.


it's canadas national sport too i believe

curling. Honestly, who said "lets take a big rock, and send it down the ice. Then, lets have some other guys with brooms sweep infront of it. And lets make it sound really intense by screaming "SWEEP SWEEP SWEEP SWEEP STOP!"

Curling!!! WTF is that all about? Not very atheletic. It's .........silly.

It was originally a sport to train butlers in proper sweeping/brooming techniques. Nonetheless, it can be quite entertaining. I dislike ice skating...I don't like the way it's judged, and can get very boring.

Ice dancing. It's like figure skating, but without the athletic jumps and spins and stuff.

As someone who figured skated for four years of his life, I'm picking figure skating as the worst, because it involves points for artistic impression. The Olympics are an athletic endeavour, and while athleticism certainly plays a part in figure skating, it's still set to music, designed to look pretty, and experiences too much opinion-related scandal.

Curling sucketh. At least the others have a posibility of death or injury to spice things up. In curling the big yolk they push might stub someones toe if they're really stupid.

Those downhill sled competetions make crappy TV.

Those downhill sled competetions make crappy TV.
The sleds are the second best part! Skeletan is the best though, flying down the track at 80kilometersperhour 8 inches above the ground, on your stomach, head FIRST!

I'll have you know that curling is a very dangerous sport. You never know when someone will try to assasinate you by switching the pucky thing for an explosive device. Like wot nearly happened to the Beatles!... oh... wait... that was the film 'Help!'. Class film. :cool:

it's canadas national sport too i believe

Wrong. Lacrosse

Wrong. LacrosseAnd that's any better?

Other = Ice Dancing

I mean, really, if ballroom dancing can't get into the summer games, why do we have to put up with this crap at the winter games?

I may not really enjoy ordinary figure skating, but I at least recognise the athletic ability and skill of the competitors. As Sdaeriji's already noted above, Ice Dancing is essentially more of the same, but with the really difficult bits taken out

Wrong. Lacrosse


why isnt hockey the national sport?

And that's any better?

I've never actually watched it, and I would have no idea that it was our national sport if I hadn't been told it was years ago...
But, yeah... it's bloody violent, I've been told. ;)

Other = Ice Dancing

I mean, really, if ballroom dancing can't get into the summer games, why do we have to put up with this crap at the winter games?

I may not really enjoy ordinary figure skating, but I at least recognise the athletic ability and skill of the competitors. As Sdaeriji's already noted above, Ice Dancing is essentially more of the same, but with the really difficult bits taken out

Hooray! Recognition.

Seriously, I watched this in between the snowboard cross where Jacobellis boned up, and it's figure skating without the hard parts. It's the kind of sport that doesn't actually require athletic talent and that any of us could be an Olympic athlete for with four years of training.

curling rules. it's bocce ball on ice and therefore doesn't rule me out from winning an olympic gold medal should i put my mind to it. i likes it.

i also like the head first sledding competition. skeleton or whatever.

ice dancing sucks - it's like figure skating but without interesting parts.

I'm with the anti-ice-dancing people, except that I enjoy mocking their costumes. There was one really "great" one where the girl was dressed like a swan... that is, she had this huge white feather skirty thing... wow.

I don't understand how curling is a sport....I have been watching it, and I just don't get it.

It reminds me of the time when someone asked my mom if I played any sports and she said "oh, she bowls"

it took me at least 2 years to convince her that bowling isn't a sport, it's a game, even though I was in a league and on a team it's just a game, kinda like Chess, or Boggle, you can go to compete but they aren't sports. :rolleyes:

I don't understand how curling is a sport....I have been watching it, and I just don't get it.

It reminds me of the time when someone asked my mom if I played any sports and she said "oh, she bowls"

it took me at least 2 years to convince her that bowling isn't a sport, it's a game, even though I was in a league and on a team it's just a game, kinda like Chess, or Boggle, you can go to compete but they aren't sports. :rolleyes:

so what distinguishes a sport from a game?

curling. Honestly, who said "lets take a big rock, and send it down the ice. Then, lets have some other guys with brooms sweep infront of it. And lets make it sound really intense by screaming "SWEEP SWEEP SWEEP SWEEP STOP!"
OMG......is that what they are saying?! I have been watching it for like 4 days and I can hear them yelling something but I couldn't figure out what it was, and why do they sweep faster sometimes and then sometimes slower.......really before last week I had never seen/heard of curling at all, I am fascinated with it.

so what distinguishes a sport from a game?
not sure.

I had a discussion once with the gym teacher in highschool about that, it led to a 3 day suspension. I said that skateboarding was a sport, he said it was not. I said that it's more of a sport than track, he said I was wrong. I challenged him to go find a half pipe and do a 540 and I would go run around in circles for 10 minutes and we would see who had to be more athletic...........yeah, he got really mad (being the track coach and all) and I got suspended.

OMG......is that what they are saying?! I have been watching it for like 4 days and I can hear them yelling something but I couldn't figure out what it was, and why do they sweep faster sometimes and then sometimes slower.......really before last week I had never seen/heard of curling at all, I am fascinated with it.
haha...yeah, they're yelling out instructions pretty much constantly.

and why do they sweep faster sometimes and then sometimes slower

i think it melts the ice a bit to decrease the friction, which can be used to make the stone keep going longer or to turn slightly.

oh......see...now I feel dumb. :(

Men's Hockey.

they should introduce another competition: drug running
there would be one more certain gold medal for austria.

they should introduce another competition: drug running
there would be one more certain gold medal for austria.

If the drug was Marijuana, Canada might have a chance at silver.

Curling. I mean it was probably made by a bunch of drunken frat boys. "AH! I just pushed something on the ice! SWEEP SWEEP!" *passes out*

Men's Hockey.
*smacks*

and you call yourself canadian.

(bit bitter perhaps?;) )

not sure.

I had a discussion once with the gym teacher in highschool about that, it led to a 3 day suspension. I said that skateboarding was a sport, he said it was not. I said that it's more of a sport than track, he said I was wrong. I challenged him to go find a half pipe and do a 540 and I would go run around in circles for 10 minutes and we would see who had to be more athletic...........yeah, he got really mad (being the track coach and all) and I got suspended.

heh, always fun to mess with gym teachers.

but i find the question of what distinguishes a sport from "just a game" to be interesting. i know i used to make the distinction, but now i'm not so sure about it.

of course, defining games in the first place is rather interesting too...

Curling. I'll watch it and it's not that I dislike it, it's just that It's my least favorite.

I love the skating, whether it be dancing or actual ice skating. The ice dancers are capable of doing holds that normal skaters are incapable of, and they utilize two skills; dancing and skating. Ice skaters aren't capable of doing the holds ice dancers do, but I they have throws and flips which are great.

heh, always fun to mess with gym teachers.

but i find the question of what distinguishes a sport from "just a game" to be interesting. i know i used to make the distinction, but now i'm not so sure about it.

of course, defining games in the first place is rather interesting too...
you should start a thred on it, maybe someone knows a good way to tell. I dont' know how I make the choice.....

mini golf- game
golf- sport


see it doesn't even make sense to me....

Figure Skating (and all other judged events).

If when everything is all over the only way to know who won is to ask some people who they think did better in their personal opinion, they should not be handing out medals for it.

I don't care how athletic you have to be to do it, I don't care how entertaining it is, it doesn't belong in the Olympics.

Curling = Ice Bocce. I loathe that it's on.every.freaking.time.I.turn.on.the.T.V.

...the only way I could possibly get into it would be on one of those "Coed Naked..." t-shirts. "Our rocks are big and handled" or something... :D

Figure Skating (and all other judged events).

If when everything is all over the only way to know who won is to ask some people who they think did better in their personal opinion, they should not be handing out medals for it.

I don't care how athletic you have to be to do it, I don't care how entertaining it is, it doesn't belong in the Olympics.

Then you would be forced to admit that Ice Dancing is worse, no?

Oh, come on. Curling isn't that bad. It's like the Darts of winter sports. There's not many sports that you can compete in while still drinking.
I mean, it was invented by scotsmen! So of course you need to be half-cut (at least) to understand the beauty and point of it.

Figure skating. Don't see much point, except to look up their dresses when they do the splitty jumpy things.

I love curling--in some cases, there seems to be beer drinking going on in the middle of competition, and how can you not love a sport that allows you to drnk beer while playing? That puts it in the same ranks as pool, bowling, darts, and slo-pitch softball. It's cold, so it loses overall points, but everything at the Winter Olympics involves cold, so it still retains its greatness in that subset of sporting events.

Anything involving figure skating, especially the ice dancing stuff, sucks major ass.

Anything involving figure skating, especially the ice dancing stuff, sucks major ass.
And what if they start drinking beer during? Won't it turn cool then?

hockey sucks, what the hell canada lost already? fuking hockey....

Curling. I mean it was probably made by a bunch of drunken frat boys. "AH! I just pushed something on the ice! SWEEP SWEEP!" *passes out*


it's no different then me, my brother ,and my son and his friend,getting shit hammered out back playing bocci..but no ice..except for the ice in the cooler!

we do have some interesting horseshoe tournies though..it is border line sport,rather then game...since we both golf,we put one pin up a hill(horseshoe pit)and the other doen a hill,so it is not just throeing a shoe at some flat spot..it has that and different techniques to overcome the different grades...and i say sport,cause we walk back and forth,and drink heavily...so after 1 or 2 games we are winded or sloshed..or both!

oh..i think the diff between sport and game is...sport requires athletic skill/stamina/mental conditioning and coordination...games require some but not all of the skills,and is more dependent on the mental aspect.

ie...chess or board games versus rugby or baseball.

and my brother and i have been arguing for over a year if auto/motorcycle racing is a sport or a game/competition?

his attitude is that with racing..the car/bike is doing the majority of the work,and you just pilot..i object and think there is tremendous physical exertion.
maybe start a thread about that..i will actually..sorry,didn't mean to hijack...check for new thread.

Ice dancing,. How is something with subjective judges a sport? It’s nothing more than a standard competition and doesn’t belong in the Olympics.

And that's any better?

Lacrosse is MUCH better than curling, and imo the greatest sport out there...

I love curling--in some cases, there seems to be beer drinking going on in the middle of competition, and how can you not love a sport that allows you to drnk beer while playing? That puts it in the same ranks as pool, bowling, darts, and slo-pitch softball. It's cold, so it loses overall points, but everything at the Winter Olympics involves cold, so it still retains its greatness in that subset of sporting events.

Anything involving figure skating, especially the ice dancing stuff, sucks major ass.

you crazy?

figure dancing is soft porn to me..lol

Curling, definately. I watched five seconds of that and changed the channel. I don't see how it could even qualify as a sport let alone an Olympic one. What's next? Mopping?

What's next? Mopping?

competitive deck swabbing

avast ye landlubbers!

Curling is just slightly worse than figure skating.

Anyone who lives in Australia and has seen Roy and H.G. will tell you what avid Curling fans they are! ;):D

There aren't many good sorts in the Winter Olympics. What they need to do is hold synchronized diving competitions, with a frozen lake. I'd watch it.

Biathalon is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Ski, shoot, ski, shoot.

Dumb.

I've always hated guns though, so that may influence my choice. But, it's like many have said...

"Guns for a show. Knives for a pro." ;)

Ice dancing & Figure stating aren't sports. They're pageants. Thus they get my vote. It's funny; I live in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, and curling has a bit of a cult following here. There's a guy on the radio here who is a Curling FANATIC.

Biathalon is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Ski, shoot, ski, shoot.

Dumb.
Have to admire them, though. They are the fittest people on the planet.

The figure skating. I don't want to see dancing & listen to shitty music, I want sport!

"competitive deck swabbing

avast ye landlubbers!"

Actually, that'd rule.

It'd have to be ice dancing. The best part about figure skating is all the really athletic jumps and whatnot that they do. Death spin FTW! :D Plus, I quite like curling. (Then again, I like petanque, so there you go).

On the basis that ice dancing isn't a sport, more an artistic demonstration that gets marked by bribed morons, I go for 2 man luge. I can at least see the point of luge, but adding someone else?

Ice Hockey isn't the worst but is WAY overated

To anyone who thinks curling is the worst olympic sport:
F*** You!

The worst olympic sport is a tie between figure skating and gymnastics. There's no objective way of scoring either of those. It's all some judges opinion. Prancing around in a fruity costume is not a sport.

I like the tactics involved in curling.

The sport I never ever watch is speed skating. 'Round and 'round and 'round. Who's the fastest? Who cares? Also, their posture while doing it makes them look like complete morons.

What's next? Mopping?


competitive deck swabbing

avast ye landlubbers!

Nah, that is a summer sport. :D

Biathalon.


Seriously, they picked 2 random sports an stuck them together. Is it meant to be alpine sniper training or something?

Biathalon.


Seriously, they picked 2 random sports an stuck them together. Is it meant to be alpine sniper training or something?

Biathlon as a comptetion has its roots in 1767. Before that it was military training for Norwegian soldiers. So it's not really as random as you think.

I like the skelleton.Hurtling down a bobsleigh track on a beer tray just seems like my kind of madness...After many many pints....;)

Yeah, I side with the general opinion that curling/ice dancing are the 'crappiest.' Perhaps because they are the only two events where it is not possible to kill yourself. Unless you're really, really determined.

Yeah, I side with the general opinion that curling/ice dancing are the 'crappiest.' Perhaps because they are the only two events where it is not possible to kill yourself. Unless you're really, really determined.
Curling is a violent and dangerous sport practiced by thugs with sweeping brushes.My god think of the bad example they are setting for children.Won't someone think of the children.....

Curling is a violent and dangerous sport practiced by thugs with sweeping brushes.My god think of the bad example they are setting for children.Won't someone think of the children.....

Don't even think about the ice dancing then. They're just criminals :p

Yeah, I side with the general opinion that curling/ice dancing are the 'crappiest.' Perhaps because they are the only two events where it is not possible to kill yourself. Unless you're really, really determined.


In ice dancing, a quick kick to the throat with with a skate on could be deadly.

In curling, one of the guys who slide it could slip, launching the stone up in the air where it could kit a bystander causing blunt trauma and eventual death.

In ice dancing, a quick kick to the throat with with a skate on could be deadly.

In curling, one of the guys who slide it could slip, launching the stone up in the air where it could kit a bystander causing blunt trauma and eventual death.

This would fit under fit under the disclaimer of 'really, really determined.'

This would fit under fit under the disclaimer of 'really, really determined.'

I guess.


Bobsled is pretty good because its a potentially involuntary sport. You could easily grab someone, throw them in a sled and push them down the hill. What would they do?

Sure. Hey man, all I did was cut his bulk mescaline for street sale and neglect to pay him. Chris, on the other hand, crushed his head with a curling rock.___Men with Brooms

I guess.


Bobsled is pretty good because its a potentially involuntary sport. You could easily grab someone, throw them in a sled and push them down the hill. What would they do?

Hit the brakes. Or make a God-awful movie about it. :D

Biathalon, definitely. I don't care if there's history to it. It's combining two activities and calling it a sport. If there was a summer redneck olympics, the biathalon would be drink three beers and ....fish.

Actually, I like ice dancing. Any sport that has a move called a "back inside death spiral" can't be all that bad.

Biathlon for me. Regardless of its boring origins or alleged non-randomness, it's a freaking stupid "sport."

Not athletic enough to compete in proper cross-country skiing? Not dextrous or accurate enough to compete in proper shooting? Mediocre at both? HAVE WE GOT THE SPORT FOR YOU!

Bloody hell, people, either focus on one or the other, or accept that you're mediocre at both and not good enough to be a top-tier competitor. Don't have someone set aside time and resources for an incredibly stupid, meaningless sport so that you can compete at a level that you're not good enough to compete at.

/rant

SNIP
Bloody hell, people, either focus on one or the other, or accept that you're mediocre at both and not good enough to be a top-tier competitor. SNIP
Wow. If you feel that strong about biathlon, you really must hate triathlon - those guys suck at 3 sports...

Wow. If you feel that strong about biathlon, you really must hate triathlon - those guys suck at 3 sports...

Or any sport ending with -athlon, really. Because all of them are random combinations of sports.

No, we only want PURE SPORTS! DEATH TO THE BASTARD SPORTS! DU WERDEST EINE KRANENSCHWESTER BRAUCHEN!

:D

Or any sport ending with -athlon, really.
True. Decathlon being the ultimate suckfest for those non-athletes.

Or any sport ending with -athlon, really. Because all of them are random combinations of sports.

No, we only want PURE SPORTS! DEATH TO THE BASTARD SPORTS! DU WERDEST EINE KRANENSCHWESTER BRAUCHEN!

:D

Damn right.

True. Decathlon being the ultimate suckfest for those non-athletes.

That's correct. Decathlon is the source of all that is wrong with the world.

That's correct. Decathlon is the source of all that is wrong with the world.
Damn greeks for even comming up with it.

Pissing figures in the snow :D

Figure Skating

it's a hobby.... and I hate jury "sports"

Damn greeks for even comming up with it.

Finally! Someone else who sees the TRUTH! :p

it's canadas national sport too i believe
No.

Canada's national sports are lacrosse and hockey.

Curling. 'nuff said.

Figure Skating

it's a hobby.... and I hate jury "sports"
they changed the judging system of all the figure skating events. its really close to being a sport now. every trick the skaters do gets points and the person with the most points racked up wins.

its like diving. if thats a sport, so is figure skating now.

the crappiest olympic sport is ice dancing--figure skating's slutty little sister.

the women dress in skimpy outfits that would get a D- in highschool home ec classes. their makeup is so extreme and so out of style that they look like aging whores. the men remind me of latino gigalos with their form fitting jump suits cut down the front to reveal a total lack of chest hair.

when faced with the new judging system, where you get graded on athletic ability, the best ice dancers ended up falling on their asses. turns out "skating really fast" is tougher than it looks.

compared with the pairs skating where the man lifts the woman over his head with one hand then lowers her to the ice with that same ONE HAND, ice dancing is "skaters off the short bus"

I'd have to go with Ice Dancing. Just plain dumb.

Curling on the other hand may look boring, but try playing it! It's freakin' hard. Even harder (but more fun) when drinking gets involved.

Or any sport ending with -athlon, really. Because all of them are random combinations of sports.

No, we only want PURE SPORTS! DEATH TO THE BASTARD SPORTS! DU WERDEST EINE KRANENSCHWESTER BRAUCHEN!

:D

You are hereby banned from competing in my new sport, "Fenfallathlon". It's a combination of skydiving and fencing. :D

You are hereby banned from competing in my new sport, "Fenfallathlon". It's a combination of skydiving and fencing. :D

Ooooo, that sounds like fun. I want to play! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A SKY DUEL!

Worst winter olympic sport...all of them?