I have totally been enamoured with the Winter Olympics so far this year, from the classic alpine downhill skiing disciplines to the more energetic and off the wall events such as the speed skating, ice dance, luge and cross country skiing. I've been amazed at the simplicity the athletes have made their task appear, despite the fact they clearly are not easy. I'm still awaiting Dick Cheney to learn how to ski though, with his new found reputation he is more than capable of scaring his contemporaries into handing him a gold medal. Been quite nice that the Danes haven't had to deal with too many countries from the Muslim world too, the global winter games certainly is still missing a large participant contingent from Africa and the middle east. My favourite non-story of the games so far is 'grandma luge' of the British virgin islands who is 50 and was planning on sliding in her 6 games, but she managed to break her wrist during training and won't be riding the icyhighway this time. Top 'shows' so far both American half pipers and the Russian gold winning pair. How this bunch won silver after a horrendous accident I've no idea. There you go though, wouldn't be an Olympics ice skating competition without any controversy.
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