the summer olympics are so boring compared to the winter olympics

Oohh I know beach volleyball! Its on SAND! So hard, omg! get your bikinied asses to the top of the luge course asap

Well michael phelps, we know you can swim in the same stupid regulation swimlanes as always, how about standing at top of the innsbruck downhill run in not much more than what you're wearing and facing a real challenge

You should be on the Olympic committee with ideas like that.

next olympics they should make everyone switch events. swimmers ski, skiers do track & field, etc.

synchronized challops

I'm just saying summer sports are kind of bitch-made

you are so wrong on so many levels

otm

Micheal phelps should at least be chased by a shark in his races

winter olympics = watching cold gravity

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040830/olympics/winners/images/wi5.jpghttp://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/02/olympic_gear/image/3-duofold-luge-suit.jpg

There is just something so primal in the man vs the elements winter olympics

And have you seen the thighs on speedskaters holy hell

http://www.kaigani.com/feverishmind/uploaded_images/curling-731148.jpg

Curling doesn't count lol

Curt1s, the importance of curling is that it gives Minnesota hockey moms their due. Why do you hate the family unit so?

Anyway the only reason why bell_labs likes the Winter Olympics is that she's looking forward to being in Vancouver in 2010 so she can smoke weed.

there's only 16 sports in the winter, and half suck ass. (biathalon nearly makes up for the suck ass half all by itself). i haven't been a fan of the winter games since they got rid of Military Patrol as a medal event.

biathlon is dope

i probably prefer the winter olympics in the end but hating on the summer olympics is frankly crazy

All of the skiing rules, spec the racing but also the freestyle
Snowboarding
Luge and skeleton rule
DBobsled is aiight
The speed skating rules
I don't care for figure skating but at least its on ice and not gym mats
Fuck you if you hate hockey

lol @ ice dancing

Yeah ice dancing does need to go

gotta get the lols in somehow

hockey is cool but you've got water polo, field hockey, handball, and basketball as comparable summer sports.

and soccerball!

track and field is awesome.

wtf handball.

People who like Winter more than Summer are bourgeois amirite?

How can you evenbring class into the seasons of the year? You must've been Marxist Professor of the Year 2008

Obv what I meant is that skiing and whatnot require equipment common to prepsters. And Summer olympics is all about swimming, and running, and gymnastics.

Jeez, lighten up dude.

no thanks mordy, or should I say, Mordimer! why are you always running from your proud nubian heritage?

OMGZ you PWNd me. :-/

"Summer olympics is all about swimming, and running, and gymnastics."

2x horseriding events, sailing & rowing

i was being tongue-in-cheek

this thread was a hotbed of foolishness from the outset.

figure skaters vs synchronized divers.

who's gayer?

all

lol no one mentioned air pistol

Winter olympics had Bjork n Peter Gabriel.

I'm making no comment on which side this puts me on.

The Olympics are abysmal...the worst big sporting event I can think of. It's like a county council sports fair except the entire world happen to be involved, so few of the sports appeal to me aesthetically.

I mean, I'm sure others disagree, it's a v popular event, but I've tried watching and it's just impossible to care, many of the events seem too much based on achieving a statistical score, the achievement of which often looks no different from failure to reach such a score.

I think that people who practiced a specific sport, even on a very amateur level, have a different appreciation of it. I know that I get very into watching swimming, and that's all about the fact that I used to swim in highschool. I can appreciate how incredible the swimmers are, and I understand what makes their athleticism superhuman, almost. My wife is the same way about fencing (which she played competitively in college).

true or false?

false.

Marxist Professor of the Year 2008

I watch far more Winter Olympics events. Of the Summer Olympic sports I watch, they all have some technology element, like cycling or fencing.