Gold Medal in Tiddily Winks
Today at the olympics I saw the men's curling match of Finland vs. USA. Wow, what a battle. It was stone to stone the whole match. Curling should definitely be an olympic sport. Just like tiddily winks should be one. You aren't just flipping plastic chips into a cup you know. How do you get your little odd game to become an olympic sport? Does it involve a suitcase of money? Some IOC people caught in compromising situations on video camera? My brother and I used to play this sport (it is actually just a fun game but to get the olympics you must call it a sport) in the basement called Lava Monster. We had an orange carpet and you could not touch it. You had to stay on the furniture or strategically placed pillows and get from one side of the room to other without getting pulled in to the lava by the monster. What do you think? Should I petition the IOC for inclusion for 2010? I am serious, skeleton, luge, and curling are laughable. Glorified sledding is what they are. How many luge tracks are there in the whole world? I know every city that has had and olympic games has one. Shouldn't these be sports that normal people know how to, participate, play, and score.
I was very dissapointed to find out that alpine ski long jumping has judges. I always thought it was the guy who flies the greatest distance. That would be too simple, obvious and fair. If you land like fairy (telemarc) you get more points. It is possible to actually jump shorter than the longest guy and still win. Kind of like artistic impression I guess. Just have to pay off the right guy from the right country.
One good thing out of the olympics is 19 yr. old snowboard dare devil Sean White (halfpipe). He is an X-gamer built for the duece who is quite handy to the olympics because they are trying to milk that demographic for the future. The stuff he does in the half-pipe is quite amazing to watch. Not sure if it is a sport but certainly is entertaining. He has the best nickname in sports. The Flying Tomato. He has a carrot top type mane and I guess that is what his friends call him.
Tomorrow there will be hockey on so that should save the games a little bit.
Today was a pretty weak day of training. 7.0 miles on the treadmill in 45:31. I am was going to do seven tonight because the roads looked like they were in really good shape but I felt like garbage and took a nap instead. Pretty noble wouldn't you say?
Christy made some delicious pizza with olives and green peppers for dinner. I don't know what kind of dough it is but it is very good. Some swedish fish and I am off to bed. Hopefully nine hours of sleep will cure what ever is making me feel so lifeless.
What an uplifting entry. Tomorrow I will try to get one in after the Reggie workout. Practice is at 6:00 tomorrow so I hope to be home at a decent hour.