I have been watching and enjoying the winter Olympics in Torino for
the past week, and I got to thinking yesterday: why isn't ice sailing
an Olympic sport? It is no more eccentric than the myriad other
winter sports that seem like the result of a drunken bet (okay, first set
your forhead on the end of a ski pole and run around it fifteen times,
then ski down this hill and shoot at some stuff with a rifle...).
Has anyone ever looked into this? There must be a process for getting
the sport recognised by the International Olympic Committee.
Fortunately, the sport of sailing enjoys medal opportunities during
the summer Olympics (33 medal opportunities to be exact). Why not
during the Winter Olympics? I think ice-sailing would make great
television (something that we regretably cannot often say for the
summer counterparts).
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