Favourite event at Winter Olympics?

[barney]

I have to be honest guys...

I have never watched the winter Olympics before so I thought this year I will watch it. I'm thinking about watching the ice hockey

So what is your favourite event?

 

[Tabascocat]

I like Winter a lot more than the Summer events.

1. Speed skating - Ohno is the man
2. Luge and Bobsled
3. Ski jumps
4. Curling
5. Hockey

Don't care too much for figure skating, only watch to see the women's outfits

 

[daschoo]

Skeleton

 

[UKCowboysFan]

Have always liked the Bobsleigh

 

[Future]

Hockey, easy.

But there are too many enjoyable events to rank any more of them. I'll watch everything snowboarding, downhill skiing, speed skating, and bobsled/skeleton events.

I honestly don't know how anybody can prefer the summer to winter olympics. Best sporting event in the world.

 

[Christiann]

Hockey, Hockey, and Hockey. Snowboarding is good too.

 

[BigDGarciaFan]

I have to be honest guys...

I have never watched the winter Olympics before so I thought this year I will watch it. I'm thinking about watching the ice hockey

So what is your favourite event?

never? not even as a kid? you have to watch them, whenever you get days off from work. i like curling

 

[barney]

***ICE HOCKEY***

Any key games in the group stages?

 

[jterrell]

Bobsled I guess. Winter Olympics are rather blah for me.

 

[MartinRamone]

Hockey without a doubt.

 

[BigDGarciaFan]

Bobsled I guess. Winter Olympics are rather blah for me.

its a great event, youre missing out.

 

[jterrell]

its a great event, youre missing out.

In Texas, football and basketball are Winter sports.
You've also got the entire world's worth of Soccer. EPL/La Liga, Bundesliga et al.

I am always impressed by guys like Shani Davis or other US Winter Olympians I really couldn't tell you a thing they do between Olympic runs.
And none of these things are what I'd consider sports.

Can obviously relate more to Summer events.

I'd love to visit Norway though if that helps, lol.

 

[burmafrd]

this pretty much is the only place that Hockey gets real publicity anymore. Basically a minor sport now.

Figure Skating is interesting just to see which judge has gotten the biggest bribe

Ski Jumping is great when they fall

Downhill the same

Curling is great on the womens side since so many of them are serious hotties

Bobsledding is exciting- like with NASCAR you keep waiting for the big crash

but the absolute most dangerous sport is luge beyond a doubt- Las Vegas has an over and under on how many are injured plus a big splash for any that get killed

 

[9darter]

Curling is great on the womens side since so many of them are serious hotties

This.

 

[Future]

In Texas, football and basketball are Winter sports.
You've also got the entire world's worth of Soccer. EPL/La Liga, Bundesliga et al.

I am always impressed by guys like Shani Davis or other US Winter Olympians I really couldn't tell you a thing they do between Olympic runs.
And none of these things are what I'd consider sports.

Can obviously relate more to Summer events.

I'd love to visit Norway though if that helps, lol.

How can you consider summer events like track sports but not speed skating? Its the same thing except a lot more difficult...

 

[jterrell]

How can you consider summer events like track sports but not speed skating? Its the same thing except a lot more difficult...

guess because running has always been a sport and was featured at the first and every olympics.
pretty sure they didnt have ice in ancient greece.

essentially every school has track programs. billions of kids run.
how many ice skate?

for people from colder climes i am sure it is a very serious sport.

 

[Future]

guess because running has always been a sport and was featured at the first and every olympics.
pretty sure they didnt have ice in ancient greece.

essentially every school has track programs. billions of kids run.
how many ice skate?

for people from colder climes i am sure it is a very serious sport.

They didn't have football in ancient greece either...is it not a sport?

I think we just have different definitions of "sport" lol

 

[jterrell]

This.

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They didn't have football in ancient greece either...is it not a sport?

I think we just have different definitions of "sport" lol

I have never knowingly met anyone's who been a speed skater.
Thus my definition of "not a sport".
I'd see it more as exercise or recreation... or a novelty in Texas.. OMG there's ice!

Obviously in the broader sense of the definition it is absolutely a competitive sport.
And of course the Olympic speed skaters are world class athletes.

I see you are from one of the most northern climes in the US so obviously we'd have a different take.
Ice rinks really didn't even exist in Dallas until my teens.

 

[Future]

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I have never knowingly met anyone's who been a speed skater.
Thus my definition of "not a sport".
I'd see it more as exercise or recreation... or a novelty in Texas.. OMG there's ice!

Obviously in the broader sense of the definition it is absolutely a competitive sport.
And of course the Olympic speed skaters are world class athletes.

I see you are from one of the most northern climes in the US so obviously we'd have a different take.
Ice rinks really didn't even exist in Dallas until my teens.

I can honestly say I don't know one single person who has ever speed skated for a day in their life lol

I guess I can agree with the recreation thing, but not if you're going to call running more than a recreation. Just because it isn't popular or is a novelty in one place doesn't make it less of a sport. Heck, soccer is a novelty all over the U.S.

 

[Phoenix]

I like the Ice Fishing, myself.