February 15, 2002

Good news skating appeal fans!! The ice dancing competition is fixed also.

posted by pastepotpete to other at 11:51 AM - 6 comments

Since the first five places have been predetermined, should we award gold medals to all entrants or just places 6-25?

posted by pastepotpete at 11:57 AM on February 15, 2002

It's difficult for spectators to see what's being evaluated, since there are no lifts or throws, as there are in pair skating, and the often outlandish costumes and melodramatic music overshadow the skaters' performances, critics say. Olympic ice dancing makes me want to cry. I don't mean to invalidate it as an activity or a competition...but, rather, as an Olympic sport (yes, I also question figure skating). If ice dancing is an Olympic sport, ballroom dancing--not to mention tap dancing and river dancing--should also be an Olympic sport.

posted by jacknose at 02:32 PM on February 15, 2002

And lap dancing.

posted by rcade at 03:00 PM on February 15, 2002

Olympic lap dancing! They could hold the event at The Gold Club.

posted by kirkaracha at 03:33 PM on February 15, 2002

jacknose: no fear; it looks fairly certain that what they now call DanceSport will be in the 2008 Olympics. Yes, that sound is in fact the Greeks rolling over in their graves.

posted by tieguy at 04:55 PM on February 15, 2002

Call me a unilateralist xenophobe or whatnot, but I still prefer our traditional good old American cheating scandals to these newfangled Olympic ones. I mean, when there's been some college basketball point-fixing situation or fixed World Series games, at least the players get a few bucks and I know why it happened: filthy lucre. In the Olympics, the athletes don't even know what's going on and it's about some strange ice-dancing related national glory. Advantage: USA!

posted by Ken Goldstein at 02:47 PM on February 16, 2002

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