I love watching most sports and have enjoyed the Winter Olympics. I wonder if I am the only one disturbed however by how important chance seems to be in many winter events. I am particularly thinking about short track skating and snowboard cross. The Olympics should be about being the best,not the luckiest.
If you wobble on the blocks, you get DQ'd, so there is a little chance there. We sure have seen that in our trials, and Thorpe was almost a casualty of that. I think every sport has an element of luck involved, and sometimes it is just not an athletes time, or it is some other unknown athlete's week to shine.
I am sure the American figure skater who found himself with the flu on IVs the day before the long skate was feeling like life had dealt him a cruel blow....and then he brought it on the next day.
If you wobble on the blocks, you get DQ'd, so there is a little chance there. We sure have seen that in our trials, and Thorpe was almost a casualty of that. I think every sport has an element of luck involved, and sometimes it is just not an athletes time, or it is some other unknown athlete's week to shine.
I am sure the American figure skater who found himself with the flu on IVs the day before the long skate was feeling like life had dealt him a cruel blow....and then he brought it on the next day.
