People don't get excited about the winter Olympics, not in Scotland anyway. I was in Calgary over Christmas and there was definitely a buzz there about it, but no-one really cares here. That was until it started.
We were all getting excited about the curling. It's like chess on ice, while making coffee in the morning in the office we were discussing the intricacies of the shot that Eve Muirhead made that went round three stones to get a 3. Then came the snowboard cross, it's like BMX on a snowboard. The most insane sport that became my new favourite almost instantly. Well that was until I saw Ski Cross. Ski Cross has to be THE most insane, violent, bloody, ridiculous, fun, made up Olympic sport I have ever seen.
It all ended with something USA v Canada ice hockey final which was tense and exciting with USA equalising with 20 seconds to go taking it into sudden death overtime (a stupid idea that football tried for about 10 minutes until everyone agreed it was a ridiculous idea) where Canada came out victors, closing the Olympics in style.
Everybody I know seemed to get caught up in the Olympics in some way or other and now I have giant gap in my schedule. I guess I'll have to wait for the next big sporting event which is probably the French Tennis Open. But really, it's just a countdown now to the FIFA World Cup.
98 days to go!!
