Quick Olympic Thought
Sometimes you see a sport and you think WHY DOES THIS EXIST?
I finally got to looking up Bobsled and you know why it exists...why it's a sport... Anyway WHY it's a sport, I HAVE NO CLUE, because I guess it's a sport of " let's see how fast we can go without dying, yay!" And this seems to be supported by its supposed origins a la wiki:
The various types of sleds came several years before the first tracks were built in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where the original bobsleds were adapted upsized luge/skeleton sleds designed by the adventurously wealthy to carry passengers.
Adventurously wealthy. I can only interpret this as CRAZY ASS RICH MOTHER F-ERS. It's the polite way to describe people who have so much money and are just bored because they have so much money that they slide down hills or roads on sleds that were kind of cobbled together.
CURLING. I pretty much get curling. The only thing I don't get is why tournament play is 73 minutes long. That is the most random number, EVER. In my head, I was like maybe if you were in Scotland playing on a lake outside in the winter, after 73 minutes the ice would be dangerous, and then throwing rocks would be stupid and would ultimately lead to your death, but I have found no evidence to corroborate this. I'm still curious though. 73 minutes, not 70, not 80, not even 75, but 73. OH WELL.
I finally got to looking up Bobsled and you know why it exists...why it's a sport... Anyway WHY it's a sport, I HAVE NO CLUE, because I guess it's a sport of " let's see how fast we can go without dying, yay!" And this seems to be supported by its supposed origins a la wiki:
The various types of sleds came several years before the first tracks were built in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where the original bobsleds were adapted upsized luge/skeleton sleds designed by the adventurously wealthy to carry passengers.
Adventurously wealthy. I can only interpret this as CRAZY ASS RICH MOTHER F-ERS. It's the polite way to describe people who have so much money and are just bored because they have so much money that they slide down hills or roads on sleds that were kind of cobbled together.
CURLING. I pretty much get curling. The only thing I don't get is why tournament play is 73 minutes long. That is the most random number, EVER. In my head, I was like maybe if you were in Scotland playing on a lake outside in the winter, after 73 minutes the ice would be dangerous, and then throwing rocks would be stupid and would ultimately lead to your death, but I have found no evidence to corroborate this. I'm still curious though. 73 minutes, not 70, not 80, not even 75, but 73. OH WELL.