My next thought goes to the most inspiring athlete of all, Joannie Rochette, who skated brilliantly, against all odds, and in my opinion won the shiniest medal of the entire Games. My other thought is that beside setting back the province of British Columbia by one billion dollars, the Winter Olympics are both two long and saturated with activity. They should be made to hold into one single week, by cutting the unnecessary or marginal events. This is what I'd cut:
- Curling
- Luge and skeleton, leave one bobsled event
- Ice dancing
- Super G
- Boarder & Skier Cross
- Parallel snowboarding
- Freestyle aerials.
- All biathlon events
- Cut into the number of ice speed events
- Cut into the number of cross-country events
- Limit jumping to one category instead of small and large hill
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Squaw Valley were the last games set in a ski resort. Since major cities have been chosen because Games became a global event and require all the accomodations a ski resort cannot supply. All the events you wish to cancel allow athletes of any country to participate, not solely the "alpine nations". And that's fair at the jet age.
Games are business, like Expos, World Fairs, Soccer World Cups, etc..
Today sponsors would never finance athletes and sport events that do not have a global coverage.
Not quite true, the 1980 Games in Lake Placid hold that dubious distinction. I agree though that the Olympics are now a bulging monster that can't no longer be accommodated in a ski town. I was just "wishing" but deep inside, I knew it was a lost cause...
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