Which is the silliest Winter Olympics sport?

[LMcD]

Despite my best efforts, I still find myself regaled with reports from the Winter Olympics which are included in the 10.00 o'clock news. As to which is the silliest event ...I think curling is pretty daft.

[french frank]

Skeleton looks like the tobogganing we used to do in the park. A bit.

[Stunsworth]

Dancing on ice.

[doversoul1]

... As to which is the silliest event ...I think curling is pretty daft.

I thought I was seeing the maintenance staff clearing the ice when I first saw it.

[gradus]

Luge-ing but whose tea tray goes faster the feet-first or the head-first hurtlers?

[Stunsworth]

Despite my best efforts, I still find myself regaled with reports from the Winter Olympics which are included in the 10.00 o'clock news. As to which is the silliest event ...I think curling is pretty daft.

I think it would have been Isaac Newton’s favourite.

I find something the somewhat glacial pace at which it’s performed rather relaxing.

[gurnemanz]

I can watch most of it with some interest but find biathlon - skiing with a gun - less than riveting.

[Richard Tarleton]

As to which is the silliest event ...I think curling is pretty daft.

A sport requiring great skill and tactical nous, certainly no dafter than bowls (and a few other sports I can think of ). I first witnessed it played with very basic equipment on a frozen lake near our home in Scotland. My candidate would be that "slopestyle", I think it's called, basically skateboarding on snow. Hilarious in those high winds - hurling themselves high into the air, then getting blown about in a totally random fashion

[jayne lee wilson]

A sport requiring great skill and tactical nous, certainly no dafter than bowls (and a few other sports I can think of ). I first witnessed it played with very basic equipment on a frozen lake near our home in Scotland. My candidate would be that "slopestyle", I think it's called, basically skateboarding on snow. Hilarious in those high winds - hurling themselves high into the air, then getting blown about in a totally random fashion

Didn't you see the Men's halfpipe the other night? Crazily, magnificently heroic!
But at least most of them got to the end of the course... for the poor, even more heroic, women in the slopestyle the wind was so strong very few managed to finish! Just 9 out of 25.
Spectacular watching, but I'm not sure I would call it hilarious, though...

[Richard Tarleton]

Only minor hip damage to that Japanese bloke in the end.....

[Hornspieler]

The Winter Olympics have taken over all television news and sports programmes'

Who, in this country, is interested in all this coverage?

I suspect only those who are taking part.

These are not Olympic Games. In fact, they are not games at all. Think of what all this effort and money could do to relieve the agonies and deprivation that the so-called Third World is suffering at this time.

As for Curling - it's just a magnified game of MARBLES but using large lumps of granite instead of small balls of glass.

Ice Dancing? Come back "Strictly" All is forgiven!

[Richard Tarleton]

The Winter Olympics have taken over all television news and sports programmes'

Who, in this country, is interested in all this coverage?

I suspect only those who are taking part.

These are not Olympic Games. In fact, they are not games at all. Think of what all this effort and money could do to relieve the agonies and deprivation that the so-called Third World is suffering at this time.

As for Curling - it's just a magnified game of MARBLES but using large lumps of granite instead of small balls of glass.

Ice Dancing? Come back "Strictly" All is forgiven!

Mind you, all sports can be reduced to the philosophical basic of altering the position of matter, and/ or yoursef, in relation to the earth's surface (Bertrand Russell famously described work as being "of two kinds. The first involves altering the position of matter in relation to the earth's surface; the second consists of telling other people to do so"). Winter sports do this by sliding - every single sport is a variation of sliding.

[Dave2002]

Mind you, all sports can be reduced to the philosophical basic of altering the position of matter, and/ or yoursef, in relation to the earth's surface (Bertrand Russell famously described work as being "of two kinds. The first involves altering the position of matter in relation to the earth's surface; the second consists of telling other people to do so"). Winter sports do this by sliding - every single sport is a variation of sliding.

Like the quote from "In Praise of Idleness and other essays" - https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...o%20so&f=false Not sure that it's very famous - but I like it anyway. The comments which follow it are also worthy of note.

[Richard Tarleton]

Like the quote from "In Praise of Idleness and other essays" - https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...o%20so&f=false Not sure that it's very famous - but I like it anyway. The comments which follow it are also worthy of note.

indeed - a note-perfect definition of consultants

[Barbirollians]

Curling like bowls is actually a fascinating skilful game.