Olympic Wrapup (2/23/98)
Bowing to intense peer pressure from every other media outlet known to man, TMC NewsBreak presents Nagano '98, our Olympic wrapup.The Olympics are over. They started, oh, must have been about two, two and a half weeks ago. Yeah, that's right, because some of the other folks in the D&D campaign were talking about the sumo wrestlers in the opening ceremonies. So, anyway... Winter Olympics. There was some snow there, and some skiing, and skating, and luge, and that goofy looking thing with the brooms. And Americans won medals after years of sacrifice and personal tragedy. Probably.
Oh, and they were in Japan.
OK, so I didn't watch the friggin' Olympics. Who cares, anyway? I was off doing more important things, like playing Quake, seeing Spice World, and buying Voltron toys. I didn't have time to watch a bunch of anorexic 16 year olds slide around and spin in slow motion while Scott Hamilton did voiceovers about their incredible struggle. I don't even know what a "Peekaboo Street" is, or why anyone should care. The only vaguely interesting thing about the whole sorry affair is the total lack of outrage at the "women's hockey team". I'm not saying there shouldn't be a women's hockey team, but if I understand this correctly, the women's hockey team is in ADDITION to all the men's hockey teams. We don't need more hockey teams! Have all the women's teams you want, but for every one you make, you'll have to kill off one of the men's teams. I'm fine with that.
Luge. Bah.
