the cross-country skier who loved me

[dontmentionlove]

D: Cross country skiing seems very sixties Bond flick to me. Like I expect them all to

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[psychlops]

Cynara, you're great. This made me stifle a snigger into my fruit cup so's to not incur the wrath of the Grey Room.

[prairiecity]

this only serves to underscore the depth of the banality of the commentators they currently use. clearly you two have a future in broadcasting.

[teanut]

seconded!

[crash_up]

haha.

mister sweets and i had a conversation about olympic demonstration sports the other day and discovered that biathlon started out as a something called "military patrol". very interesting... patrolling for enemy spies perhaps??

the list of demonstration sports is generally quite awesome. it includes things like skijoring, ballooning, angling, cannon shooting and pigeon racing!

[chavvah]

I would definitely like to hear more of your and D's commentary on the lolympics.

Also, I am in love with the commentary on APTN. To wit:

Commentator: [speaking in Cree at some length]
Announcer: So, could you give me a recap of what you just said there?
Commentator: I said she fell down. Looked like it hurt.

[imperfectmedium]

This is not totally beyond the pale, given the tendency of commentators to elevate sports events like the Olympics to the level of diplomacy. I think the Olympics would be more interesting if every athletic team was actually a squadron of spies/guerillas.

Personally, I'm glad that Norway is in the gold medal curling game on Saturday afternoon because it mean MOAR harlequin pants in my future.