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Originally posted by jhe888:
Too much figure skating on TV. That is the most boring event I can imagine, and my wife eats it up. Even little girls' gymnastics in the summer games is more interesting.

I totally agree with this.

Figure skating is athletic, graceful and beautiful.
For about 10 minutes.
And how exactly is it a sport?

My definition, anything that's decided on style points is not a sport.

I'm OK with the short programs, and admire the athleticism when the woman is thrown across the ice and lands perfectly; and similar demonstrations of making appear easy and graceful what should be impossible. Yes, there's too much; also too much hockey, curling, etc. That's what your DVR is for.

I enjoy figure skating and always wished that I could ice skate like some of these folks....too much of a klutz I guess.

Ernest Hemingway — 'There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.'

Of course, they are called The Olympics Games, not The Olympic Sports.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
Even little girls' gymnastics in the summer games is more interesting.

Are you quoting Jared the Subway guy?

Tried to tune into Womens Biathalon at lunch today, they decided to show curling instead.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

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Originally posted by Deqlyn:
^^^Yup. I figured ud post on that.

I wish someone would teach them how to handle the flag though. Drug it on the ground like an old blanket

LOL - I was watching last night and yelling at the TV, "Would SOMEONE please take that fucking flag from him!?!....Ahhwh geeze...don't step on it!"

I'll give the dude a pass though. He's a dopey stoner that somehow got his favorite activity into the Olympics and crushed it. He was proud as hell to wave that flag around and likely wasn't paying attention in civics during "flag code" class.

Im sure he was jacked that on how he won etc...

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Originally posted by Deqlyn:

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

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Originally posted by Deqlyn:
^^^Yup. I figured ud post on that.

I wish someone would teach them how to handle the flag though. Drug it on the ground like an old blanket

LOL - I was watching last night and yelling at the TV, "Would SOMEONE please take that fucking flag from him!?!....Ahhwh geeze...don't step on it!"

I'll give the dude a pass though. He's a dopey stoner that somehow got his favorite activity into the Olympics and crushed it. He was proud as hell to wave that flag around and likely wasn't paying attention in civics during "flag code" class.

Im sure he was jacked that on how he won etc...

It looked like there was an official flag hander outer dude that stuffed the flag into his hand. It did not look like he even knew what was put into his hand at first.

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Originally posted by GT-40DOC:
I enjoy figure skating and always wished that I could ice skate like some of these folks....too much of a klutz I guess.

Figure skating has always been a key part of the Olympics. I watch it , and along with the ski jumps, are my 2 favorites. But I am a long term fan of figure skating , back to Sarejevo.

And also following Nationals sans Olympics.

First Olympic figure skating was not inside an arena.

From Wiki:
"Figure skating was first contested in the Olympic Games at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Since 1924, the sport has been a part of the Winter Olympic Games. Men's singles, ladies' singles, and pair skating have been held most often. "

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Originally posted by tacfoley:

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Originally posted by SigJacket:
I know if I had to pick one, it’d be biathlon. Guess I’ll just yearn for one of the rifles.

Ok, maybe hockey.

Get a nice Browning T-bolt and use the money you've saved on a good biathlon sling. In the summer, lots of folks in Scandinavia use roller blades and air rifles - same deal, but without the frostbite.

tac

Oooh, yeah, or maybe the new Volquartsen Summit.

Hockey coming up!

Im still for 30.06 rifles in biathalon. Maybe every 40 years we make the kids do olympics the old way?

Fantastic women’s hockey tonight, USA vs Canada. Not all going USA way, but great game nevertheless.

OK we watched Savchenko and Massot do their freestyle skate. It was flawless. They got the highest score ever given for that event.

Lindsey Jacobellis is still competing?!?

Comon' you better get to the podium this time around.

Wow, openly gay figure skating. New for this year. Between the johnny weird or whatever his name is and the participants. I have seen enough.

I will take curling all day and night. Thank you very much.

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Originally posted by TMats:
Last night, my wife and I watched Pairs Figure Skating.

I asked my wife if she wanted to watch figure skating a couple of days ago (half jokingly). She proceeded to call me a homosexual...ahem, though not exactly in those words.

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Originally posted by TMats:
Huh, why couldn’t the U.S. require an English language test before conferring citizenship?

U.S. does require it. And civics test. Ask me how I know.

I am not sure why you decided to inject politics, and a baseless one, into a thread about the Winter Olympics.

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Originally posted by Windhover:

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Originally posted by TMats:
Huh, why couldn’t the U.S. require an English language test before conferring citizenship?

U.S. does require it. And civics test. Ask me how I know.

I am not sure why you decided to inject politics, and a baseless one, into a thread about the Winter Olympics.

I thought it was pretty benign. Sorry if it bothered you