Curiling (Opinion)

Vanessa Betz
Staff Reporter

With all the hype of the Winter Olympics, people get excited over their home teams and athletes competing with others for gold medals. You would think the Olympics would have higher standards for individuals to even qualify for the Olympic sports, but apparently they don’t if they include Curling as a sport. When I hear the word Olympics, I usually would think of highly skilled and talented individuals, but Curling? Really? What skill does one really need to push a granite stone across ice? These so called talented “athletes” do not even have skills; if anyone has skills in the sport of curling it’d be the people who scrub the ice in front of the curling stones in order to make them stop. If you think about it, those people are the only ones doing all the work to make the curling stones land on a green or blue circle.
I think I would be more impressed if these “athletes” pushed their curling stone and actually got up to shake their little arms off to scrub ice and stop curling stones themselves. To me, Curling seems pointless and should not even be considered a sport. The meaning of a sport to me is an activity that takes skill, and Curling does not fit that definition at all. People would argue that I just do not understand the purpose of this so called “sport”, but what is there to understand? Nothing, this is just another completely made up, random and pointless “activity” that people come up with to pass time.
I mean this would be like making beer pong an Olympic sport. So why is curling involved? Thank goodness the Winter Olympics are over, now I can stop ranting about curling along with many others who hate it as much as I do.