Daveed Reviews

When is a sport not a sport?

Rudy and I have been checking out the winter Olympics this past week. We dig it. All of it. Well, most of it. Curling, skeleton, cross country skiing, it's all cool as hell. I can do without figure skating, although I do like it when the undies the ladies wear become wedgies.

I hear a lot of Americans complaining because the US is not as dominant at the Winter Olympics as we are during the Summer Games. These people obviously don't remember what it was like 20 years ago when we were lucky to see a top 10 in the Ambiguously Gay Duo/2-man bobsled. In fact, the Olympics committee had to Americanize the Winter Games to make it easier for Americans to medal by adding events like the snow board half-pipe and the moguls event. I'd rather see someone like Eric Heiden bust his ass and come out to dominate an event that previously had been owned by the Eastern Bloc than see a pot-smoking snow boarder win the gold, get it stripped for a positive THC test, then get his gold back because it was ruled that Mary Jane does not constitute a "Performance Enhancing Drug". Apparently they have never seen a flock of stoners hit the buffet at Ci-Ci’s pizza.

Easy, Glen, I dig the snow board half-pipe; it just shouldn’t be considered an Olympic Competition.

posted by daveed @ 19.2.06