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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
The judging stupidity combined with the fact that all other sports have been completely marginalized to make room for the hours and hours and hours of figure skating coverage have left me wanting to avoid it at all costs.
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That's because figure skating is more popular, and in turn
that's because it's more visually interesting than a race. Something is going on when people skate ... lots of movement and showmanship, rather than mere forward momentum.
Don't get me wrong, I love bobsled and skeleton and speed skating and every kind of skiing, but I can certainly see why figure skating is far more interesting. It's similar to the way gymnastics is the more interesting (and more covered)
summer Olympics sport, as compared to relay racing on foot or in water.
Judging may be a dicey subject of too much subjectivity, but I find the 100th of a second difference between race winners to be an absurd measure of championship, albeit a quantifiable one. I do not happen to exclusively equate quantifiable with winning ... and neither do the Olympic Games.
In any case, I enjoy far more of the winter sports than the summer sports, so I get far more excited about the Winter Games. Not enough to watch any of the inane network coverage, nor enough to bother with Tivo. But I'll catch some of it here and there. Heheh, I'll be happy just to watch the opening ceremonies and quick recaps of the days' highlights for the rest of the games.