Winter Olympics 2010

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

By praising the sled at such length, the announcers made the bobsled competition sound like the America's Cup. I'm not sure if the crew deserves the gold or the engineers do.

Four Men.

Four runs down a 1,450 meter track

Four Tenth's of a second between gold and silver.

Four Tenth's.

Drop a pen from 2.5' and it's less than that.


That's one misstep, one brush of a wall, one hitch in the steering, one wobbly runner on any of the four runs.

I don't think you can separate athlete from engineer. It takes both. Of course only one get's to keep the medal because at the end of the day the Olympics are a measure of the athlete not the science behind them.