2018 winter Olympics

I have not been paying too much attention this 'round to the Olympics.  Quiet Rage has been busy traveling and observing what would be summer Olympic sports.

With that being said, I'm a sucker for anything on skates or ice.

I can't help but notice the number of winter Olympic athletes representing the United States that come from the states Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota.  We have a monopoly on it, folks.  See, there is something to do in the wintertime when all you think we do is a whole bunch of nothing.  We take that nothing and train for an Olympic sport. 

Which begs the question.....What are YOU doing????

Which brings me to the definition of sport and art.  So many things in the Olympics are judged by a panel.  If something is judged, it's not a sport, but rather an art.  If something is judged objectively using time or some other non-partisan means, it's a sport.

Ice dancing, pairs, figure skating:  It's a very physical ART like dance.  Those scores may be determined by the mood of the judging panel.  On the flip side:  Hockey, curling, skiing, etc., are SPORTS because they don't depend on a panel of judges but rather objective means like time and hard scores.

I guess I'm liking the Olympics less and less.  For starters, the people representing their country are not even from there -- especially when it comes to skating.   They all go shopping for countries like parents go shopping for schools for their kids with the preset idea of where can they go that is going to benefit them the most?

There are really only about three Olympic trainers, who train just about all the skaters competing.  Did you watch it?  The same trainer had their mug with all the different countries.  The trainers kept making after performance appearances in the kiss and cry box from several countries.  One after performance shot would show the trainer with the USA skater.  The next after performance shot they would be with the French skater, etc.  One trainer.  One training site in the USA training multiple counties.  IMHO that makes them ALL skaters from the USA if they travel to live and train here and their coach is from here.

The South Korean pairs skaters are washed up US skaters who only skated for Korea because they did not have a shot for representing the USA.  They don't even speak Korean nor have they have any real ties there other than the female's grandma or something of the sort.  Of course, they manufactured and embellished the ties to Korea.  The US male skater who decided to skate for Korea was whiter than Vanilla Ice who claimed Korean citizenship just a couple years ago.

What exactly am I ranting about?  I don't know.  The Olympics are a bunch of sh** and most of the USA team comes from Minnesota.