The Olympic extravaganza brings out all sorts of oddities. The WSJ prints the quadrennial idiotic claim that nationalistic cheering is being suppressed. Like books about baseball, that trope should be barred for eight years. The entertaining part are the sports -- there are always new sports or sports I had forgotten about and don't understand. Winter Games have the ski around in circles and shoot things competitions and ice dancing. (I wonder if ballroom is an event in the Summer Games?) Over the weekend I have watched some sculling, which was compelling. And field hockey and horse dancing and team handball and some others. Field hockey was a mystery -- there are circles inside which one can (or cannot?) shoot? Did not see enough of the game to figure out the rules. Horse dancing. I found that a weird sport. Looks like the horse has to memorize the routine and the rider just sits tall. Must be more to it, but that is how it looked. The horses were gorgeous. The riders, not so much in silly formal wear. I wonder if we will get agility competition for dogs next. It is a bit more interesting and the dogs are far more entertaining. I wonder how the horse dancing remains in the the Olympics given the pressures on time, etc.
The whole process of selecting sports for the Games must be quite interesting. Sailing is in, and sailboarding too I think. I wonder if para-surfing is in now? Is surfing? I would guess not if the host is a place like London or Beijing -- or do they just zip off to a beach? They have to go out of the city for the sailing anyway. I wonder if motocross is in.
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