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(I) THE OLYMPICS - the world’s newest reality tv show. it must have sucked back in the 1900’s when you had to settle for waiting a day or two before finding out who won a particular event. when there were no sweet designer steroids, no awesome photography/video special effects, no sappy-ass montages of triumph, and no watchful eye of the media, looking to dig up any dirt for a story.

welcome to the 21st century, baby! nothing has changed except everything that happens we know about. and a lot happens. and it’s great.

the LEON LETT PREMATURE HIGH-STEPPING AWARD goes to u.s. snowboarder LINDSEY JACOBELLIS. did you see this? she had a commanding lead in “the cross course,” essentially snowboarding’s equivalent to a downhill ski run with a motocross mentality (ie. all the racers compete simultaneously, and there are sweet jumps). then, on the last jump before the finishline (and a gold medal), she showboats in mid-air (grabs her board - somehow this is difficult to to do?) and totally wipes out. amazingly, she was still able to get the silver medal.

i swear i would have done the same thing, but probably with a slightly cooler looking jump. and you can bet if this was an NBA league equivalent event, she would have landed the trick-jump and taken the gold. but for some unfortunate reason, the karma of the olympics is pure and looks favorable upon hard workers and good sportsmanship…LAME.

NBC’s website devoted to olympic coverage has a photo slideshow of all the figure skating WIPEOUTS from the weekend which occurred in the ice dancing competition. awesome. thanks to ESPN and that, i feel i don’t need to watch anymore. i swear the winter olympics are like nascar. you have them on in the background and don’t really care that much, but you’re just waiting for someone to crash so the announcer can chime in “ooh, that’s going to cost her” or “you hate to see that, bob.” p.s. - some of those women ice dancers…HOTT.

a skiing event supposedly to happen on sunday was postponed because IT WAS SNOWING. heaven forbid people would have to ski in the snow. it’s like expecting to take a shower without getting wet.

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