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re: What individual Winter Olympic Sport do you enjoy the most?
Posted on 2/23/15 at 10:54 am to sms151t
Posted on 2/23/15 at 10:54 am to sms151t
This question perfectly encapsulates why the Winter Olympics is irrelevant. The only individual sport with any sort of prestige is figure skating and the audience of that sport skews heavily female. Outside of ice hockey, what is there for men to watch in the Winter Olympics?
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Posted on 2/23/15 at 11:07 am to Bench McElroy
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Outside of ice hockey, what is there for men to watch in the Winter Olympics?
Outside the U.S., where there is good TV coverage, there are a lot of good options -- curling, alpine racing, nordic racing, speed skating, non-headline hockey; all can have compelling competitions. But we don't see that. We see figure skating practice sessions, and figure skating interviews, and figure skating up close and personals, and tape delays of whatever US athlete medalled that day.
Posted on 2/23/15 at 11:36 am to Bench McElroy
I barely watch the summer Olympics, but the winter Olympics are awesome. I don't watch any of the figure skating, but I watch pretty much everything else.
Posted on 2/23/15 at 11:54 am to Bench McElroy
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Outside of ice hockey, what is there for men to watch in the Winter Olympics?
Skeleton
Luge
Bobsled
Downhill
Slalom
Super G
Ski jump
Aerials
Biathlon
Short track speed skating
Long track speed skating
Nordic combined
frick I can't wait for 2018.
Edit: some of the snowboard stuff is good too, like snowcross.
This post was edited on 2/23/15 at 11:58 am
Posted on 2/23/15 at 12:36 pm to Bench McElroy
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This question perfectly encapsulates why the Winter Olympics is irrelevant. The only individual sport with any sort of prestige is figure skating and the audience of that sport skews heavily female. Outside of ice hockey, what is there for men to watch in the Winter Olympics?
So wrong. The Winter Olympics are the best, the problem is the coverage is all about figure skating like has been said before. All the skiing/snowboard events, luge, bobsled, biathlon, speed skating, it's all good. I could sit at home in front of the fireplace with the snow piling up outside and drink beer and watch non-stop WInter Olympic coverage for weeks on end. Too bad work gets in the way.
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