Please explain how ice dancing is an Olympic sport?

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Anonymous wrote:I love Ice Dancing.

Curling, OTOH....

Quick! Grab a kettle weight and a broom.

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I will give you ice skating but gymnasts are the highest skilled of all the athletes in the Olympic games. No other event takes as much strength, flexibilty, finesse, endurance and control as gymnastics.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know how luge is a sport. They lie down the whole time and steer a little sled with their hands. How are they considered athletes?

Well the first part is running so that's the speed part. But then--- I have to agree with you. Maybe it's a mind over body sport because if I were on a sled going that fast, I'd be beyond terrified.

Luge - I thought it was all about riding the right lines through the curves?

Lugers don't run. Bobsledders and skeleton athletes (skeletons? what do you call the person who rides skeleton?) do but Lugers use their arms to push off against handles. All 3 are still sports in my opinion, but then I feel that way about all the sports in the winter Olympics.

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Anonymous wrote:I love Ice Dancing.

Curling, OTOH....

Quick! Grab a kettle weight and a broom.

Curling is like shuffleboard and mopping. Both of which I am really good at.

I feel like I'm an Olympic curler when I go to mop the kitchen floor. I can do it record time now - the entire kitchen in 2.5 minutes (including the coffee grind stains around the trash can).

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I cannot watch that mogul skiing without my knees killing me in sympathy pains. Bump, bump, bump.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Ice Dancing.

Curling, OTOH....

Quick! Grab a kettle weight and a broom.

Curling is like shuffleboard and mopping. Both of which I am really good at.

I feel like I'm an Olympic curler when I go to mop the kitchen floor. I can do it record time now - the entire kitchen in 2.5 minutes (including the coffee grind stains around the trash can).

Did you ever see the Simpsons episode where Marge and Homer get into curling? Think she was especially good at it because she had so much practice from household chores.

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Ice Dancing has always been a bit of an oddity, but it is much more interesting these days than back when the Soviets/Russians were the only good teams.

Of course, Torville and Dean in the 80s and the Duchesnays right after were interesting to watch back in the day.

I much prefer pairs, but dancing is fun.

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The Tonya Harding mentality is always in the background of ice dancing. What is the deal with the frozen bitch smile they give to their competitors? It's really the Hunger Games on ice.

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Anonymous wrote:Ice dancing is the rhythmic gymnastics of the Winter Olympics. At least they are both a step up from synchronized swimming.

Amen.

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Anything that is based soley on Judges shouldn't be a sport. That goes for the snow board contests that are not based on time too. Just because something requires athleticism, doesn't mean it is a sport.

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Anonymous wrote:The Tonya Harding mentality is always in the background of ice dancing. What is the deal with the frozen bitch smile they give to their competitors? It's really the Hunger Games on ice.

Don't forget Nancy. I doubt she was innocent in all of what happened.

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Anonymous wrote:Anything that is based soley on Judges shouldn't be a sport. That goes for the snow board contests that are not based on time too. Just because something requires athleticism, doesn't mean it is a sport.

So no gymnastics, diving, skating, ski jumping, dressage, soccer , volleyball or ice hockey ( the sujectiveness of the referees is among the most critical elements of the game.)

Bascially you are down to Running, swimming, bobsled, luge, Xcountry, downhill skiing, speed skating....

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Anonymous wrote:The Tonya Harding mentality is always in the background of ice dancing. What is the deal with the frozen bitch smile they give to their competitors? It's really the Hunger Games on ice.

Don't forget Nancy. I doubt she was innocent in all of what happened.

Q: What Olympic sport did Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding participate in?
A: Not ice dancing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Tonya Harding mentality is always in the background of ice dancing. What is the deal with the frozen bitch smile they give to their competitors? It's really the Hunger Games on ice.

Don't forget Nancy. I doubt she was innocent in all of what happened.

Q: What Olympic sport did Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding participate in?
A: Not ice dancing.

haha

speaking of women's skating, though - does anyone remember what an ice cold bitch sasha cohen was? Damn, that girl had the icy stare down to a science.

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Have you ever tried to jump while rotating on a thin blade on a sheet of ice? Or tried lifting a grown woman over your head while skating on a thin blade on a sheet of ice? No? Didn't think so. Go try it and then come back, smartass.