So i just got finished watching Sam's run at the worlds on Freecaster and I am kinda pissed. All I want to know is why are the Olympics so lame as to pick XC as their MTB discipline. Who really wants to watch a bunch of lycra clad f#$s play follow the leader. No wonder viewership for the games has slipped, their image is dated. DH biking represents an amazing feat of man and machine. It photos well and has excelent watchability.
kinda pissed
- Thread starter SinatorJ
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Every Olympic host city is not suited to DH racing. Adding DH or any other mountain-dependent event would severely limit choices of host cities.
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urban dh yo! but yea. the world doesn't run the way you want it to, or the way i want it to. sucks, but get used to it.
on a side note, if dh was in olympics, what would you think of Hill, Minaar, Rennie, or Peaty on a Wheeties box?
on a side note, if dh was in olympics, what would you think of Hill, Minaar, Rennie, or Peaty on a Wheeties box?
it would have to be a big box to fit sam hill's eyebrows on it.on a side note, if dh was in olympics, what would you think of Hill, Minaar, Rennie, or Peaty on a Wheeties box?
I think that the argument of not all cities could host a DH event is mute. When they had the 96 olympics in Atlanta they used the Ocoee river for the paddling events. That is over 2 hrs away. Any large international city that would host the olympics is close enough to a hill or ski area to make this vaible.
yea very true, lets say they host the olympics at new york one year, plenty of sick mountains around there
There was a good segment on NBC's outdoor adventure show this past Saturday featuring Jeff Lenosky riding with a crew at Whistler. It is probably just a matter of time. Every Olympics adds a new weird sport to "exhibition". They're going to do Ultimate Frisbee for God's sake. XC however is what the majority of people relate to. Others will argue that we have the "X" games. hahaha
and they will also have to develop a new cereal for Peaty that will taste good with beer!
and will fall out of the box onto the floor just before you eat it...everytime you're really hungry...leaving you still hungry and a broken, injured cereal that can't be eaten, while all the rest of the cereals are left to fill your bowl.
Just stirring the pot a little, but you gotta remember the picture is much bigger.
Who wants to watch a bunch of moto-wannabe "f#$s" racing against the clock when there's BMX?
DH is no more an amazing feat of man and machine than any other cycling discipline.
thats harsh
sorry to derail, but i feel like anytime there's a big competition, or the possibility of peatro winning is very slim because somebody else is so much better than him (nico, sam hill), he gets injured for the rest of the season.
XC is really spectacular 
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No more derailment than wheaties. It could be that he feels he's got to push himself harder to win and ends up wrecking harder.
Well right now chicago is the front runner for the U.S. bid. So if there were summer olympics there.......it'd be a LONG drive for DH.
And in the 84 olympics in Los Angeles, soccer (football) matches were held at Stanford, Harvard and Annapolis.
So, they could have qualies at Northstar and Finals at Diablo for all the history shows.
-r
So, they could have qualies at Northstar and Finals at Diablo for all the history shows.
-r
I dont think the city has anything to do with DH not being in the Olympics. Its just not popular enough yet and still to much of a sub culture in most parts of the world. Just the way i like. Although it would be cool to see in the Olympics. Maybe there would be more coverage finally. Once the numbers/popularity grow it will be in there.
Virtually no chance of DH being in the Olympics. The IOC are trying to limit the number of events. To get BMX in at Beijing another cycling event had to be chopped (women's time trial) which caused a bit of a problem. Obviously no event in any sport wants to lose its Olympic status so I see no real chance for DH in the near future anyway.
Chop out shooting,wrestling and such stuff as it is **** to watch anyway. Olympics could be anysize if there were viewable events imho. The problem is that the guys from IOC decide all that stuff while playing polo and you can never trust a polo player....