Olympics

Although the flat is equipped with Satellite TV, the only English-speaking channel we have access to is CNN, which is on continuous repeat it seems. We've found a French-Swiss channel that at least is showing some of the Winter Olympics. Without understandable commentary it was difficult to decipher the opening ceremony - the whole Irish dancing by Hell's Angels gnomes with violins thing was hard to relate to Canada, let alone to winter sports, but I'm sure that must have been some native cultural expression I'm not aware of. And so to the Curling. It's obviously a display of incredible skill and tactical thinking, but one cannot help wondering how you get into a sport like that. It's hard to imagine a youngster saying "football, no thanks. Rugby is for sissies. Cricket, bah. Skiing - how lame. Curling, on the other hand..". Biathlon (skis'n'guns) looks like a right riot - at least you can see where such a combination may have originated. Nordic Combination on the other hand.. a cross country race followed by ski jumping?