Gayest Olympic Sport
This is my first year watching the Olympics from another country. (I once watched the US Open - the tennis one - from a crappy hotel in Russia. But that's another story.) It's weird. In the US, all the big winter sports get covered like crazy. You've got skiing and figure skating and hockey and all that. Here, the only team the UK has that has even the slightest chance of a medal is the curling team. So I get to see hours of curling every day, and coverage of the British girl who came in 37th in a skiing event. There is no snow here mostly, so there really aren't winter Olympic athletes from the UK.
But curling is not the very gay sport I'm referring to in the title. Curling is one of those sports like golf; it looks like it might be fun to play, but watching it is as exciting as watching mold grow on an old tea bag. But it isn't gay. The gayest Olympic sport that I think I've seen is Doubles Luge.
I used to think that wrestling, with all the partially naked grabbing, was the gayest Olympic sport. But then I saw Doubles Luge. That is the sport where men squeeze themselves into skintight spandex, and then one of the men lays on top of the other one as they zoom down a luge run. I mean, if you're an athlete and you think, "I'd like to go down a hill really fast with my cousin," wouldn't you maybe think about getting a 2-man bobsled? But no. These inevitably Northern European men just decide to lay on top of each other on the luge sled.
I kind of miss living in a country that sometimes wins in the Olympics. But my husband doesn't mind that I always root for the Americans. Except for one Swiss ski-jumper that I like.
Alana
