Um. Basketball, real, actual basketball, isn't a winter sport. Next time you come to the city I'll take you down to the West 4th Courts where it's three-on-three time and 5'10" baggy-shorts wearing,
very serious, players perform drop-back dunks with the same ease as you or I take out the trash.
And that is nothing like the games at Rucker Park
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I think I have only watched one Opening Ceremony. Helsinki. It was Ice Capades on Some Serious Acid.
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I have a theory that we, the watching public, would appreciate the athletes more if we were shown a couple of weeks of duffers and also rans.
If we saw a couple of people taken from the stands who were then asked to try out the hanging rings.
(GAAAH! How DO they do a handstand on these things?)
Or, take me out and have me run the 100 meter hurdles.
That would be amusing even if it took much longer then than even the producers imagined.
(Three figging Minutes!! My grandmother could.......arrgh!!..Go to commercial!!.)
Is croquet an olympic sport? because it should be. It looks easy until you try playing against one of lonely souls of Central Park's court. Tiger Woods can't shoot any straighter than these guys. Twenty-five feet to just the edge of your ball and through the wicket.
Joe(luckily I had forgotten my wallet)Nation