Olympic Notebook

What’s up with the blue lines in the snow? I can almost under­stand the ones that are mark­ing a cor­ri­dor down the hill, but if you don’t get points off for ski­ing out­side the lines, why bother? And just what pur­pose do the ones per­pen­dic­u­lar to the course serve? The lines are all fuzzy too. This is the Olympics, man, every 4 years, big world­wide audi­ence, couldn’t you get them a lit­tle sharper?

Super G? Is there a Reg­u­lar G?

Giant Slalom, same ques­tion? (And is it just me or does the word slalom look misspelled?)

Curl­ing. Enough said.

If Skele­ton is the oppo­site of the Luge, why don’t we have Back­wards Bobsledding?

I’m think­ing that those women’s ice danc­ing cos­tumes might be sexy with all that “skin” show­ing, if they didn’t look like they were designed by the elim­i­nees of Bravo’s show Runway.

Who designed the medals? They look col­ored CDs on a rib­bon. And why does it take 6 peo­ple 10 hours to make one?

So far the coolest thing about the Olympics was in the sur­real open­ing cer­e­mony, red-clad in-line skaters with spe­cially designed flame-shooting hel­mets. I gotta get me one of those. Wait here while I go check Ebay.…nope, but it is only a mat­ter of time.