Great athletes, in virtually every sport, make difficult athletic feats look easy.
That’s probably why every other year the Olympics takes over our tv and our time, with sports that we otherwise don’t care about, or didn’t even remember existed.
This year, figure skating is one that gets the most prime time coverage. Two things I marvel at are this:
1. how the announcers, and judges, can see such detail in a person spinning around three or so times, as to precisely and instantly know how good it was, or if not, which body part was every so slightly out of alignment. I pretty much wait to see if they fall or not; if not, hey, that was pretty good.
2. the doubles skating. These men are amazing. Just think how much strength it takes to hold even a small-sized woman over your head. Then do it on skates! While moving.
That’s why we watch the Olympics – to see people do things we aren’t capable of ourselves.
On the other hand, I struggle with the sports in which the results are judges’ opinions rather than easy-to-see facts like who got to the finish line first or if the ball went in the hole or not.
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