@4, I always forget that there are people who appreciate tawdry whores. I shouldn't presume to spoil your fun. Especially since the only Olympic sport I give two shits and a train whistle about is curling. YES, CURLING, GODDAMNIT. So go ahead and have your Torvilles and Deans. Just don't call 'em "figure skating". They're not skating figures.
Oh, and while I'm on the subject, BRING BACK COMPULSORY FIGURES (eliminated in 1990).
@fnarf -- Yes, dammit, bring back the compulsory figures! "Figure skating" these days is just a bunch of jumps, a couple of spins, and some sliding. I'll bet the current crop of "figure skaters" couldn't do even the most basic of the old compulsories.
I consider figure skaters to be athletes without a sport. They have great skills, but their "sport" is an icy mess. First it doesn't follow the Olympic motto: Citius, Altius, Fortius (faster, higher, stronger). Figure skating looks for "prettier."
Figure skating would take a great step forward if all skaters had to wear a national uniform, like the speed skaters.
@2: Diving isn't a sport? Fucking gymnastics isn't a sport? Good grief, I'd hate to live in your weird head. (I'll stick to my own weird head, thanks.)
I don't play video games, but I do enjoy kidnapping small children at the mall and dyeing their hair in the bathroom, then letting them go. And rubbing my belly and making a wish. Another thing I like to do is comment about things I know a little something about; you should try it! I don't need your help, sunshine, I lead a far more varied and interesting life than you can even imagine.
We need to change it a little.
A no running water old claw bathtub in circa 1880's shack. A typewriter instead of a computer, and Mrs. Knarf pouring hot water into the tub from the kettle off the pot belly stove.
So we've gone from tearing apart ice dancing to tearing apart fellow Sloggers? Did I just stumble into the YouTube zone? Or one of the many incoherent sports blogs?
@10: If you've followed the sport over the years as the doubles have progressed to triples and now to quads, I don't think you could make the argument that there is not a whole lot of faster, higher, stronger going on.
This correction is not correct. A simple look on the internet shows that Olympic figure skating is made of 4 disciplines: men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Ice dancing IS figure skating. Ice dancers wear figure skates.
@27: If they did it competitively for points, yeah, it would be. It's pretty fucking athletic.
Also, +1 to the person who noted that referees are judges, too.
@35: I'm aware that they call it that, but as Fnarf in @8 mentioned, they are a Satanic Cult. I believe the one that Pennsylvania woman belongs to. So I ignored your appeal to authority because I reject their authority, and responded to the statement at the end of your post.
I'd like to see these "ice-dancing whores" skate backwards while sweeping (no, I really would) because I don't think they could do it. Fnarf is correct that curling is the apex of human endeavor in today's sporting world and does not suffer from the stains of impropriety currently muddying the waters of cricketing.
Oh, and while I'm on the subject, BRING BACK COMPULSORY FIGURES (eliminated in 1990).
Figure skating would take a great step forward if all skaters had to wear a national uniform, like the speed skaters.
*Yes, via the Today show, dammit.
I don't play video games, but I do enjoy kidnapping small children at the mall and dyeing their hair in the bathroom, then letting them go. And rubbing my belly and making a wish. Another thing I like to do is comment about things I know a little something about; you should try it! I don't need your help, sunshine, I lead a far more varied and interesting life than you can even imagine.
A no running water old claw bathtub in circa 1880's shack. A typewriter instead of a computer, and Mrs. Knarf pouring hot water into the tub from the kettle off the pot belly stove.
That said, ice dancing is the worst thing ever.
Also, +1 to the person who noted that referees are judges, too.
Do you like ice dancing so you can watch women fall down?