Words, Words, Words - it's only words (Jul/21/2009 )
MoMA
...I shld feel soo insulted but I'm laughing my head off.....really, 150 klicks...you're inventing this...but still it doesn't count....let me see them try playing with that deadly weapon on pure smooth ice...
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mamma mia
oh sports fans.....all the same
Waterloo
Casandra- a trained ape could win more medals than the uk at the winter olympics!
I really love watching the olympics- especially the winter ones- how many ice skaters will fall? and skiers too, not to mention the luge and bobsleigh (and for the seriously insane- the skeleton)
Napoleon
Come on, the brits have more skills than that, LiL
Wellington
Well I suppose slightly- but if we're comparing to Canada...then there is no contest. The only winter sports that the uk is any good at (currently) seems to be curling and bobsleigh.
How come dog sledge races aren't in the olympics?
Beef
Right, then. How would they get all the dogs on the podium?
jerky
hi ladies.....really LiL-san, there is no contest but we suck at soccer so there is a just universe......do you know that we won the gold medal in men's Hockey 7 times....(not to mention the other medals) and the Women's 2 times (we're the defending champions...)...and the free-style aerials could be more insane I think....curling too....
you got in there before me lab rat...and the dog sledding was a demonstration sports before but never made it full-fledged....could be the animal rights issue...
Herky-
LOL, Cas. Animal rights issues don't seem to affect equestrian sports, so I'm not sure that is the case with dog sledding. Perhaps it is too exclusive to be considered an international sport. Reindeer sledding would be the northern European/Asian equivalent.
Perky
...but the horses are strutting and galloping on the same manicured lawns (as the soccer games') ...it's a very elitist sports so the animal advocates shldn't complain....the horses look just as snotty as the riders with the funny hats...while the dogs.....wooooh.....pulling a heavy load amidst the flurry of ice and snow and arctic wind... to the sound of the cracking whips (real ones
)..tested to their limits...there is a difference
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Pert
I'm sure they could make a podium big enough for the dogs!
Cross country- 3 day eventing for the horses is as demanding as dog sleding and if curling can make it to the olympics why can't dog or reindeer sleding (though Santa would win this event hands down )?