The Winter Olympics

I have no use for the Winter Olympics. I have almost no use for the Summer Olympics, either. But the Winter Olympics is the worst. I think Jim Rome put it best. There are three kinds of sports in the Winter Olympics: sports I've never heard of, sports I don't care about, and hockey. The only difference between me and Mr. Rome is that I don't care about hockey.

Anyway, I recall the last Olympics, there was some controversy about figure skating, that elicited much wailing and gnashing of teeth. However, being that it involved Canadians being jobbed out of medals, I assumed I wasn't interested and tuned it all out.

If anyone was going to bring this story to life, it'd be the great Canadian Mark Steyn, who did so in this story that came out at the time.

It was moving. Not so moving I'm going to, you know, watch any of that nonsense, but worth a read.