February 20, 2010

Yesterday I was watching women's curling on the Winter Olympics. It was the USA vs. Russia game. I got so excited that that I had to take medicine not to fall a sleep.

The way I see it it is only interesting to the players and their families.

Curling supposed to have been invented in medieval Scotland in 1540. I can not imagine anything being exciting in medieval Scotland! It became an Olympic sport in 1998. The fact that it was invented in Scotland to me means that it belongs to a list of other boring activities that originated on the British Isles. Like cricket and golf. And don't forget big time ale sipping.

Here is an interesting follow up to my previous comment on February 16 about athletes representing countries other than their own.

There lives a family in New Jersey that has two daughters and a son. The mother was born in Japan, the father in the US. The father is American as apple pie.

The youngsters were very good figure skaters. Eventually the older sister and the brother teamed up and became top quality ice dancers.

Apparently they could not qualify to represent the US but because their mother was born in Japan these kids obtained Japanese citizenship and now they are representing Japan in the Olympics. They live and train here in this country but the Japanese Skating Association is contributing to the cost of their training.

If there is any glory in the tournament it will be Japan's.

The youngest sister felt left out of this whole shebang butsince she also wanted to be an ice dancer she looked around in search of a partner.

Eventually Cinderella found her prince in the form a Georgian ice dancer, likewise looking for a partner. The glass slipper fit and they are living or rather competing together.

She at first received a Georgian passport then just before the Olympics last month she received her Georgian citizenship.

This girls doesn't speak a word in Georgian, never been there and probably never will. Nobody in her family was ever Georgian or had any ties with that country.

It seems the country needed an ice skater and she needed a team. End of story.

There is also a Hungarian ice dancing couple competing in Vancouver where the girl is a real Hungarian but the guy is as Russian as Vladimir Putin.

This guy was born in Moscow in 1985 when it was part of the Soviet Union. Somehow he managed to come out to the US and in 2005 became an American citizen.

He had an American ice dancing partner with whom they were quite successful. However that partnership ended in 2007 so he also went shopping.

He met this Hungarian girl and the match was complete. She is of the same age as he is and quite good.

He started competing in Hungarian colors achieving respectable results. On January 25, 2010 he became a Hungarian citizen so he might represent Hungary in the Olympics.

The only difference between this guy and the quasi Georgian girl is that she has absolutely no relationship to the country she is representing while the Russian guy's relatives were probably part of the Russian occupation forces stationed in Hungary in those bad years.

Now, this bum has three citizenships and is only 25 years old. I wonder how many he will collect by the time he is 40.

This is absolutely wrong! What's the point marching under flags when every participant is only looking for their own individual glory regardless whom they are representing.

The word representing only means who is paying the bill.

These people are prostitutes. They go where the glory/money is.