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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (95273)	2/13/2002 11:47:48 AM
From: Terry D	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 95453

Skiing has always been at the heart of the winter games and this is what skiing is in 2002. It is 50-50 whether a junior is going to snow board or ski; 50-50 for an alpine skier between racing and free skiing. The racers have their 4 specialties (nobody will ever win 3 gold medals like Toni Sailor or that Jean Claude dude from France). Snowboarders race or freestyle (half pipe - or as Jon Stewart calls it "hash pipe"). Free skiers do bumps or all the X-game stuff that is not in the Olympics - skier cross, etc. It is confused, but that is where the young talent is going. There are so many ways to slide down a hill - and they can't all be Olympic sports (where is telemarking - the original skiing?) Maybe they could eliminate sports that are anachronisms (curling) or ones the US sucks at (anything involving Nordic skis) or sports that virtually disappear for 4 years at a time (bobsled, skeleton, luge, speed skating). SLC 2002 is a big spectacle, run at enormous expense to the taxpayers, by a hugely corrupt organization that is enriching certain real estate and business leaders in Utah. So have a Nike swooshed Bud Lite and start chillin' like a villain. At least it is better than the Pro Bowl.