Olympic rant

Parent Cafe
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<p>mini, curling is a team sport. Are there any team sports at the Olympics which are co-ed?</p>

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<p>Equestrian???</p>

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I agree. Do you think this is putting more or less pressure on Sasha Cohen? I personally think Sasha already had a much greater chance of winning a gold medal than Michelle Kwan. I am very happy for Emily because she earned a spot on the team and she deserves to compete. Good luck to all our girls!</p>

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<p>shuffleboard?</p>

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<p>my 15 yr old is quite taken with the olympics- she and her dad are making plans to go to white pass to compete in the verizon luge challenge</p>

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<p>sounds fun but cold.</p>

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<p>I think Emily is in a great spot. Nobody talks about her … so not presurre.</p>

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<p>“wall-to-wall athletes’ sob stories”</p>

<p>Did you hear the one about the athelete whose grandmother died 13 years ago? What a sob story!</p>

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<p>I HATE THE STORIES>>>>there I said it</p>

<p>its worse in the summer, Hi, I am an anorexic gymanest who has to practice 10 hours a day…</p>

<p>and in the winter: This ice skating pair met in highschool and have 17 children and skate everyday</p>

<p>show sports and don’t show all Americans all the time</p>

<p>some stories or good and deserve to be heard, others, blech</p>

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<p>Being turned down for E.D.:</p>

<p><a href=“http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/olympics/2006/writers/02/18/olympic.blog.8/index.html[/url]”>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/olympics/2006/writers/02/18/olympic.blog.8/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I’m sick to death of all the stories of “hardship” that supposedly every single athlete has had to endure to get to the Olympics. Is it really so much to think that they might just be really great at a sport and that cancer, death in the family, horrible car crashes or learning disabilities didn’t propel them to be where they are today? Good gosh, if I hear one more sob story, I might puke.</p>

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<p>The music in these up close and personal segments is enough to make you sick. Why is every story sad, with sad music??</p>

<p>And just how do you know you’ll be good at luge? I can see some natural talent for tennis or basketball, but luge? Do you buy your kid their first luge at age 4? And later…oh I can’t go to the dance, I have luge practice??</p>

<p>I just don’t get it.</p>

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<p>I was in Germany during the European figure skating championships in January, and they showed everyone. It was great, and I really looked forward to seeing those skaters during the Olympics. I have been very disappointed to see those few chosen for “prime time”. During at least one of the earlier Olympics, they showed the whole line-up on one of the auxillary channels during the day, and then they made a production out of the evening showing. That worked well, especially for those of us who like to watch the whole thing. There sure has been a lot of hockey, but other than that, the coverage has been very disappointing.</p>

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<p>Yes. MSNBC covered curling all day the last 2 days, and they actually tried to teach us some of the rules. What I really wanted to see is some coverage of the 52 year old woman from one of the islands (was it the Virgin Islands or Aruba? Sorry. Can’t remember.) where there is no snow, but she is now competing in her 8th Olympics, I think they said. Of course, she never comes close to placing, but what a story! Better than Bode watching.</p>

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<p>Granny Luge had an accident on one of her runs and fractured her wrist.</p>

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<p>Or the American who hotdogged and lost the gold…she FINALLY admitted she was showing off</p>

<p>and now raids!!</p>

<p>and abstinence from sex to increase chance to win! (so thats the trick)
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