Well, I've Already Had Enough of the Olympics (Rant)

[Dutch Alex]

Originally Posted by argodad

Come on bkbjones, share your line about the men's figure skating!

I do care about the Winter Olympics, however can we say figure skating and ice dancing are sports or is it just an exhibition? A jury has to decide who's the best. That's not in the mind of "Higher, Faster, Further, Longer etc."
I do know they have to train very hard and long, but it all depends wether a jury say's "We like you the best; you win..."
No as a real dutchie I do like long track speed skating! I'm not sure you know how to skate on a 400meter track, but I do like it...
Shanie Davis lost in his 1500meter competition against the dutch outsider Tuitert. I didn't even considder he was one of the skaters having a chance for gold: He mostly fall down on the ice when it's real counts.

For myself skating is fun, but it realy starts at a distance of at least 25 km. I do prefer a 100km skating. Did once 200km in one day (8h32min) on a lake in Austria. The dutch winters ain't that cold that we can skate a day long...

I'm longing for spring and the summer however!