The "winter olympics are crap" thread

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11 February 2006, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Leslie

Figure sakating together with artistic merit require physical fitness and above average coordination and that makes me accept anything like that as a sport.

Les

Well you're very easily pleased Les

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12 February 2006, 03:45 PM

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Jeremy Clarksons newspaper comment about the winter olympics in yesterdays newspaper was along these lines

"judging the figure skating is like being a camels chiropodist"

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12 February 2006, 08:58 PM

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Watched the downhill today - as I live near the alps these days.
Nerves of steel - speeds of 120kmp. Slopes so steep that you could not even stand on them in places. A frog won which p-ssed the Austrians off no end.