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Re: [RC] Olympics and endurance? - TypefSay it isn't so! Boy, this thread has really blown my bubble on why I ever watched the Olympics and what they stood for. But then, I hardly ever watch any of the human sports at the Olympics because I think most of them are boring. Who watches shotput or handball or curling, for crying out loud? But then I'm just a girl. Girls don't usually go for that stuff. LOL And I get enough basketball, baseball and football the rest of the year to tide me over, thank you. While looking at the official olympic site on the list of current sports (of which more than 3/4 I've never watched) I also discovered the list of discontinued sports, one of which was Polo. And it IS odd that there is only one animal involved in human Olympic sports. If man's best friend is a dog, what is a horse doing in the Olympics, anyway? If what you say is true about 3-day eventing, it looks like I'll not have much reason to watch Olympics in the future. Now that the Outdoor Life Network is not showing equine events on a routine basis like they were a couple of years ago, I'll have no way of seeing this stuff. We used to spend our Saturdays eves.watching show jumping, dressage and cross country just because there was nothing else on. I do, however, have tickets to the World Cup in Las Vegas in April to hopefully watch Rodrigo Pessoa take home another gold. Although I don't even know if he's coming because without the Outdoor Life Network, I have no idea who's doing what to who anymore. We went two years ago and it was so exciting to see in person all the people we had been watching on TV for months. I've never jumped a fence in my life and my husband really doesn't even ride but for us both it was just a tremendous experience, watching the best in the world at their particular area of of the equine world. :) Jackie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Typef" <typef@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [RC] Olympics and endurance? And I believe that 3 day eventing ( of which cross country is one day ) is on the IOC chopping block to eliminate from the Olympics because: a) it is to expensive for the host to build and secure the course and b) it has little spectator appeal ( in numbers ). When 15,000 people file in to watch a basketball game day after day - that's what they are looking for. The Olympics of today are not the Olympics the Greeks envisioned or even the Olympics of 1980. They are there to make money. Truman Typef wrote:I'n not sure cross country is any less dangerous than horses traveling fast to win an Endurance ride. But then you notice I didn't say race, so then, I guess that leaves Endurance out of the Olympics. Don't mind me, I'm thinking as I'm typing. But then again, if the rules were the same as our AERC, then we'd still have a ball game. I think I'll go look up all those weird sports I was talking about. ... Jackie (killing time at work with nothing else to do but say stupid things) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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