21 February, 2010

The Winter Olympics

Until a couple of days ago I thought a luger was a type of pistol and Women's Skeleton was what you might see in one of these new scanners at the airport.

What doesn't seem right about it all is that the sports played in the Summer Olympics - running, jumping and that silly one where girls in the swimming pool all stick their legs out of the water at the same time (a clear case of gender discrimination) - these sports can be played equally well in the cold, snowy countries, whereas you can't luge, if that is the verb, in North Africa.

What we need is some sports which can only be done in hot countries, to even up the balance. Formation sunbathing would be my choice.

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