to think curling shouldn't really be an olympic sport?

[paisleyleaf]

I mean, skittles isn't.

lol - but where do you start re winter olympics.

I mean bobsleigh. And figure skating. Not exactly sport in my eyes.

True. I guess it can't all be like the half pipe snowboarding.
I've just watched a women's ski race - some of it was even uphill, a lot of it was flat - that just looked like a sack race! Running, but something on your feet to make it hard.

The women's downhill skiing was great!
The race with four snowboarders at a time was fantastic too.
Isn't golf going to be at the olympics in 2012?????

I think there's quite a lot of skill involved. I keep meaning to try it, but at the moment my knee is destroyed so I can't bend down. I must admit to laughing at the little mop things they sweep the stones with. We saw a group once and concluded that they were cleaners they were only carrying their squeezy mop things though

Golf !?

Mentioned this to DH the other night when GB were going against Switzerland. Think its on a par with darts

GetOrf...., you can not be serious! Do you have any idea what figure skating is all about? How incredibly demanding and physically difficult the training is? I'd bet you'd say the same about ballet
Not everything is football you know - which incidentally, in my books is game for yobs played by braindead primadonnas.
[here endeth the rant]
Agree about curling though, it's brooms for xst sake!

Here continueth the rant:
skiing, the proper skiing I mean - Nordic skiing, be it freestyle or classical, is one of the most demanding sports there is.
And I know, grew up on skis and have done 60km marathon. It was hard
[goes off to bask in the glory of old, epic, memories]

Is Nordic skiing the running thing I saw?
It certainly looked to much of an effort to be easy.

i love the winter sports....was watching womens skeleton racing last night,scary!!!

but looks like we'll get a gold in it

Rollmops - yes your are right re how hard phytsically it is to skate.

But seriously, sports people should not wear purple lurex with flesh coloured mesh. I think that is the crux of the matter.

Contrarily I love skiing, both watching and doing. Nobody could deny that is a demanding and fascinating sport.

But triple salchows? Not so much.

And roll - last time I looked ballet wasn't a sport either.

yourself

'the running thing'
[thump]

Gymnastics????? Would you kindly consider gymnastics a 'sport'??? Cycling? Swimming? Lycra and all?
Yes, ballet is much more difficult than many so called sports, so perhaps it needs a separate category.

I have heard an argument that says that if you need a judges decision to decide who has won then it is not really a sport.

So, anything like ice-dancing, floor gymnastics and the like where people hold up numbers to give points wouldn't count.

By this token though I guess curling would. Frankly it looks just like bowls on ice to me. Or is bowls already an Olympic sport?

imo figure skting is no more a sport than ballrom dancing

i have no doubt that figure skaters train very hard and the top skaters are incredibly talented and committed. but a sport? nope. it's dancing.

also agree re curling, it's a game rather than a sport, again you have to have talent to play but you don't have to be particularly fit to play at the highest level

the olympics should be about sport, not games or dancing

having said that, i enjoy watching both figure skating and curling.

agree wit 5foot5

in the tigerfeet olympics there would be

• nothing that needs a judge's decision
• nothing that doesn't require the participant to be at peak physical fitness

would you consider archery a sport? it's one of the oldest, but is about skill rather than physical strength.

i love all the winter olympics, and love the variety involved, and that we rarely see these sports outside this fortnight. ok, so given the choice between watching curling or super-g, i would go with the latter, but it's all good.

But ballet isn't a sport?

"I have heard an argument that says that if you need a judges decision to decide who has won then it is not really a sport.

So, anything like ice-dancing, floor gymnastics and the like where people hold up numbers to give points wouldn't count."

What would you call them then?

People have to be at the peak physical fitness, and they compete against each other.

What are they, if not sports?

oh i love watching curling, archery, ballet dancing, gymnastics and so forth

i really do

i'm glad they get the chance to be showcased and wish they were on the telly more often

still don't think they're sports though

and it is a shame that the only reason that some of them are televised is because they are olympic events

shouldn't be like that

Oh jolly good, we can get rid of all the non-sports, including the so-far-not-mentioned shooting. Plus boxing, judo etc.

And while we're at it, can we get rid of the supposedly (because this is the Olympics) amateur football and tennis, featuring v v v highly paid professional players? Golf likewise can just get their coats.

And that way we'll only have to watch the whole shebang for a few days. Which would be nice.

Oh, and I'd probably get rid of saling too because it is a completely useless and baffling spectator sport. Makes CRAP telly.

Or at least make them sail in a straight line.