I'm not a huge fan of the Winter Olympics, I tend to have an occasional look whenever I get 5 minutes.
The last time I watched it and there was something new and mental worth looking at, it was Luge and Skeleton. This time it was Ski-Cross.
I don't know if it's a new thing, but it looks more exciting than the usual "time-trial" type of skiing.
For anyone that hasn't seen it yet, it's like moto-cross but on Skis instead of motorbikes. Lot's of hills, bumps and jumps and 4 skiers racing each other with shoving, elbows and crashing.
Pretty entertaining and definitely worth a look; not sure I could watch all the hours of coverage of it though.
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It is really entertaining, although I'm getting a bit sick of both Chris Evans & Simon Mayo going on about it on both directions of my commute.
All I can say is that thank god for iplayer as I've not managed to watch any of the ice skating on tv this time round which I love.
Recorded most of the highlights programmes, but the Ski Cross and the Snowboarding are the only things that I have watched right through, so far. The skeleton and the luge I have watched quite a lot of, but not everything.. Ice skating looks more interesting when you speed it up 8, 16 or even 32 times
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I do believe the bump is called a wutang
Boardcross and the skicross have been great to watch - some definite ow and ouch moments
Watching the women's skicross on Freeview + last night, my other half and I were in hysterics laughing at the competitor who almost didn't make it past the second wutang (ended up in near splits), came down well behind first and second place and then crashed going over the final jump into the grandstand. It's just like watching you've been framed
Anyway, if you like that, you'd love this...
Anybody else disappointed the BBC aren't doing a half hour highlights programme like they did for the summer olympics?
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