So Danica Patrick didn't do so well in her NASCAR debut. Ah, well. At least she wasn't hurt.
Speaking of NASCAR, and in keeping with our Olympics theme, has anyone else noticed that speed-skating is essentially just NASCAR on ice--without cars, though, which makes it infinitely more interesting. We don't understand people who refer to NASCAR drivers as athletes. It takes no athletic skill to make a hish-speed left turn. Maybe if they were propelling themselves around the track at a hundred miles an hour without benefit of internal-combustion engines. . . .
If speed-skating is NASCAR, then short-track speed-skating is roller-derby. When people tell us that Apolo Ohno wins a race, we just take their word for it, 'cause we have no idea how anyone can keep track of who's ahead of whom in that venue.
How does someone decide to devote him/herself to speed-skating? It does look kind of cool, but when you come right down to it, it's really just skating in a big circle really really fast. Are speed-skaters just aspiring hockey players who don't know how to handle their sticks?
Snort!
