Ice skating and other extreme sports (was Re: Defending ice dancing, the ISU and
virtualworldofhp
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Sun Feb 17 21:11:02 UTC 2002
<a lot of stuff by a lot of people about Olympics and judging>
Sports that would be out:
Gymnastics
Diving
Sychronized Swimming
Aerials
Moguls
Figure Skating
Dressage
Snowboard Half-Pipe
How boring!! Personally, I think Ballroom Dancing *SHOULD* be a
sport. Have you ever watched a competition? Those people are
awesome--and you've GOT to be athletic. That stuff looks tough. How
can you throw out gymnastics as an Olympic sport? Or diving? These
sports are quintessential to what we've come to know as the Olympics
or sport. You want to throw things out, try curling (glorified
shuffleboard??) and thank goodness they haven't stuck golf in there yet.
Yes, things judged by speed or distance are nice for the average
viewer, but where's the allowance for creativity or expression?
That's why there ARE those other sports that leave room for that.
I saw leave those in, maybe add some more--repair the judging process
where it needs it, and continue to put on miraculous Olympic events.
-Megan (an Olympic-junkie)
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