Cheap Thrills

~ Laura

As I scraped off brown flowered wallpaper tonight, I watched the Olympics for the first time.

Question for the readers… Is beach volleyball a real sport or is it the equivalent of the swim suit issue of Sports Illustrated. Is beach volleyball really just a way to ogle tall women in bikinis.

The men divers. Well, that’s just about the athleticism. I didn’t put down my scraper to watch that cutey-pie Canadian diver. No way.

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9 thoughts on “Cheap Thrills”

  1. “Is beach volleyball a real sport or is it the equivalent of the swim suit issue of Sports Illustrated.”
    It’s both. No, seriously! Try playing it sometime. It’s much harder than regular volleyball, since you have to cover a lot of ground, and it’s much harder to run in sand (much easier to dive, though).
    Too bad I missed it, boycotting the Olympics cuz of the stupid link policy and banning of personal blogs by athletes and coaches.

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  3. Josh Elliott beats me to the rant

    Josh Elliott posts a fine rant in Sports Illustrated’s blog about the Olympics that echoes my own thoughts on the matter: No athletic event that is judged belongs in the Olympics. And no exceptions: No gymnastics. No ice skating or…

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  4. Well, as a practitioner of a sport that’s regularly dismissed for “snooty outfits” (Just see this month’s Vanity Fair) I didn’t want to comment. Why the teeny outfits? But those women are ATHLETES! And, they aren’t sporting giant inflated mammaries, either.
    Fling93: “blogging banned” canard got all over the blogosphere. No ban. If you had a blog before you ARRIVED in Athens, blog away. If you know how to put photos in your e-mail, MAIL AWAY.
    And they keep calling my sport “equestrian”. Hello, there are THREE of them. Two of the three sports I’ve done would be banned under the Josh Elliot rules. I don’t know–it depends upon the integrity of the national committees (who sponsor the judges and forward the judges for acceptance by the international committee).

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  5. Beach volleyball has a lot of athleticism. But I can’t say that the physical appeal of the young ladies playing it doesn’t play a factor in the popularity of the sport. Especially after the victory roll in the sand that Misty and Kerri did after they won the gold medal….hubba.

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  6. I’d say a ban on new blogs is still a ban, and still an obvious sign of ignorance and fear. And, of course, greed (and thus the teeny outfits).
    Okay, truthfully, I gave up on the Olympics years ago because it’s been way too political for as long as I can remember. Particularly obvious in the judged sports that Drezner blogged about.

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