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Old Sun Feb 21, 2010, 11:56am
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Figure skating and its ilk (ice dancing, etc) are always political... always. If there isn't cheating in the scoring, there is always accusations of cheating in the scoring. This applies to gymnastics (and diving, etc) in the summer games, too. The same brouhaha will eventually come to snowboarding, too. However, these events will always be there because they bring in the TV audience.

Short track speed skating it stupid.. a race should be about speed, not about following in line and falling when trying to pass (not to mention unenforceable rules against team tactics...).

Alpine skiing and cross-country skiing are both good, but they need to do away with the style score on ski jumping - who cares how graceful they are-- distance should be king.

Long track speed skating is certainly better than short track, but what they need is a track more the size of the running track in the summer games, where the skaters would actually compete on speed, not balance on skates.

Double luge is very, very odd, in a limp wrist sort of way.
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