Winter Olympics Haiku
Alpine Skiing
Beauty comes from speed
Love watching the intervals
The falls are brutal
Ice Dancing
Sadly literal —
it's like pairs figure skating
with added boredom.
Snowboard Cross
This one should be great.
Lead changes, crashes and more...
...oh, really? That's it?
Moguls
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, JUMP
Bump, bump, bump, bump, bump
Halfpipe
Really, one question:
Is Shaun White competing now?
When he's up, tell me.
Skicross
It's more exciting
than its snowboarding brother.
Still disappointing.
Figure Skating
It's too subjective.
That is always a problem.
...Well, at least for me.
Aerials
Yeah, it's subjective.
But all those twists and flips, man!
Plus, it's short and sweet.
Biathlon
Skiing and shooting
The nuclear winter sport
It makes sense to me
Bobsled
Two-man — I get it.
Four-man? Those middle two folks
push, and not much else.
Cross-Country Skiing
They don't stop to shoot
Hills, turns, sprints — no rest at all
A grueling ordeal
Hockey
No surprises here —
I watch it most of the year.
...No-touch icing rocks.
Luge
Clearly dangerous.
And doubles? Two dudes, one sled:
unnecessary.
Skeleton
The forward luge
Sounds crazy, but makes more sense
Just think about it
Short Track
Drama, speed, crashes —
if it was on more often,
I would not complain.
Curling
It's on all the time
Much screaming while the stones slide
Strangely addictive
Ski Jumping
How does one become
involved with a sport like this?
Scandinavia!
Speed skating
It's the boxing to
the short track's mixed martial arts.
Older, but wiser.
Nordic combined
By air and by land.
No love for water skiing?
I get it. Too cold.