Why the hell is figure skating the most popular olympic sport??

**ak_powder_monkey** · 02-11-2006, 11:00 PM

BECAUSE NBC SUCKS DONKEY BALLS AND WONT SHOW ANYTHING ELSE

**Schmear** · 02-11-2006, 11:02 PM

C'mon, you know you love the drama...

**Vicious** · 02-11-2006, 11:02 PM

Seconded. I'd rather watch the cross country skiers than figure skating.

**nutcase** · 02-11-2006, 11:04 PM

hey whats that sport called where they cross country and shoot at targets? That's a cool sport.

**Mcwop** · 02-11-2006, 11:04 PM

Cause women watch teh Olympics more than men?

**altagirl** · 02-11-2006, 11:10 PM

It's not skiing, but I'd rather watch figure skating than luge, which was on earlier. So I'm a chick...

**ak_powder_monkey** · 02-11-2006, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by nutcase

hey whats that sport called where they cross country and shoot at targets? That's a cool sport.

Biatholon and the 20k was live last nighht and I watched it, it was AWESOME as was the nordic combined today. Cross country skiing is hella fun to watch, especially mass starts. Figure skating takes so fucking long and they have a stupid story and commercials between each skate. That being said the thrown tripple in pairs was pretty sick she should start skiing.

**The AD** · 02-11-2006, 11:39 PM

Originally Posted by altagirl

It's not skiing, but I'd rather watch figure skating than luge, which was on earlier. So I'm a chick...

Luge isn't real TV friendly. You see the start then about five shots of the athlete flashing by at high speed.

I was thinking of something today I thought was strange. How come there's no women's ski jumping?

**altagirl** · 02-11-2006, 11:46 PM

Originally Posted by The AD

I was thinking of something today I thought was strange. How come there's no women's ski jumping?

There are people working on it anyway:
http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_3499967

**cloudpeak** · 02-11-2006, 11:47 PM

Events like luge don't show well on TV.

I prefer to watch timed skiing events and hockey events. I'm not crazy about sports like figure skating because the scoring is so subjective.

**KennyG** · 02-12-2006, 12:05 AM

I am not a big figure skating person - as most guys go - but you have to love the 18-25 year-old girls wearing the oh so tight leotards spinning arround skating butt first into the camera.

It's an incredibly boring sport otherwise, and I have no idea why it's so popular.

**Conundrum** · 02-12-2006, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by KennyG

I am not a big figure skating person - as most guys go - but you have to love that I play a clarinet and Michael Bolton and I are BFFs.

Nice user name

**Dirty Hoar** · 02-12-2006, 12:59 AM

Originally Posted by The AD

I was thinking of something today I thought was strange. How come there's no women's ski jumping?

Camel toe... camel toe. Makes a high pitched whistling sound that causes immediate deafness to nearby wildlife.

**bad_roo** · 02-12-2006, 01:30 AM

The figure skating audience is largely attracted to the acres of gusset always on display.

Science has proved this.

**freshie247** · 02-12-2006, 01:36 AM

I've got to agree with it's the scantily clad female athletes .

**Mrs Roo** · 02-12-2006, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by bad_roo

The figure skating audience is largely attracted to the acres of gusset always on display.

Science has proved this.

Two words. Jane Torville.
...shudder....

**SponsoredByDuctTape** · 02-12-2006, 02:37 PM

I'm with most of you, but for some reason people really want to see it. The ticket packages for the Salt Lake games that included figure skating were the most expensive. Some of the better figure skating tickets were going for $1500 and up once the games started. On the other hand, we ended up selling some of our X-country tickets for $8.

And if any of you happen to be at the Olympics now, or are planning on going in the future, the best thing to see live is ski jumping. We had to get up at the butt crack of dawn to catch the bus to the venue, and then ended up standing around in the 15 degree temps, in the shade for a couple of hours, but it was awesome. The TV does not do it justice.

The bobsled/luge on the other hand, worse in person than on TV. The only cool thing about it was that they're so damned fast. It seems like they're going about 10 times faster in person than they look on TV. Of course, that means that you stand around for 10 minutes waiting to see a blur go by at 70mph in a fraction of a second, then stand around waiting for the next athlete.

**yogachik** · 02-12-2006, 02:45 PM

Front page of today's Los Angeles Times is a huge article on how snowboarding has become the most sought-after ticket, the most watched sport on TV, and has emerged as THE event at this year's Olympics.

**Rasputin** · 02-12-2006, 03:04 PM

The majority of women aren't interested in competitive sports, but they like things that are pretty. Figure skating is pretty. There are more women than men. Figure skating isn't attractive to most women because of the competition, but because it's pretty.

The competition aspect is there so men can have some slim reminder of war while enduring the prettieness. Men endure the prettieness because their underlying sex drive tells them this is a neccessary concession to reach the goal of sex, and and they desire to avoid the sharp tongues women wield when they don't get their prettieness.

There you have it. Rasputin has spoken.

**Core Shot** · 02-12-2006, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by Conundrum

Nice user name

KennyG was a nice user name until that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.

**schindlerpiste** · 02-12-2006, 03:30 PM

Originally Posted by yogachik

Front page of today's Los Angeles Times is a huge article on how snowboarding has become the most sought-after ticket, the most watched sport on TV, and has emerged as THE event at this year's Olympics.

Not in my mind. For me, it's third after all alpine skiing events (except maybe moguls); and biatholon. Hockey, crosscountry skiing, ski jumping and snowboarding also fit into my equation. I'm as interested in bobsled, luge and curling as I am in most figure skating events.
To me "the" events at the winter games are the downhill, super-G and giant slolom.

**roll - gybe** · 02-12-2006, 06:30 PM

What if you were a little Soviet kid skating around, playing hockey with your friends and some guy from the national sports complex came around and told your parents that you were going to ice dancing academy?

Imagine the hell?

Imagine puberty in Ice Dancing academy?

It's one thing to be Brian Boitanao, but I think those CCCP guys were probably not all that fruity.

Oh yeah, and Americans are the morons that the networks make them, because they are morons and they watch what the networks put on TV, which makes them more moronic.