The least dangerous sport at the Winter Olympics is Biathlon. This is also the only sport at those games that involves the use of firearms.
(HT to the Australian Liberal Democrats for noticing this).
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The practical application of the biathlon is exemplified by the Finnish ski troops of the Winter War and the sniper Simo Hayha, whose magnificent personal tally of 700 Red Army soldiers and a great deal of b*ggeration to the Reds helped to grind them to a standstill and a ceasefire.
Should be ban curling, or at least licence it? We need more funding to find out. (sarc.)
Quite so.
On the other hand, “There is no occupation that combines the skillset of riflery and ice trekking that is not international supervillany”.
(Other than defeating international supervillany, of course.)
So the fact that I don’t ski is the reason I’m not an international supervillain?
An armed sport is a safe sport.
Gene: polite, too, I would imagine.
Excellent links, Sam Duncan.
Come to think of it, why isn’t snowball fighting – individual and team – an Olympic event? Maybe next Olympiad.
Amusing, yes.
Surprising, no.
I’m wondering if anyone is actually surprised by it.
PfP An Olympic Snowball Fight would make a great Closing Ceremony, perhaps with biathletes shooting flying snowballs and snowballers aiming at passing ski jumpers.
Now that I think about it, I seem to remember that during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905 there was a battle in which both sides ran out of ammunition: and rather than having at it with fixed bayonets, they threw rocks at each other. So a mass snowball fight would be perfectly in keeping with the Olympic tradition of simulating war through sports.
Kate from Small Dead Animals with another perspective from the CBC.
I don’t watch Olympics on networks. Show me a site where I can zoom in on the sports I might be interested in while disregarding entirely athletic activities requiring judges to tell you how well you did.
On a side note the Irish side caught the Windies by surprise and took a T20I victory. Gave a slight scare in the deciding match today but fell short and have to settle for a tied series.
Well, of course it’s the safest sport.
All of the participants are carrying rifles, and can hit your left earlobe from way over there.