Events in the Winter Olympics, ranked from least to most terrifying
Not terrifying at all. Photo: Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images As with cocaine or evading taxes, extremity has always been a huge part of the Winter Olympics’ appeal. If you tune into NBC on any given night, you’ll see men and women doing death-defying flips on snowboards or barreling down an icy track headfirst on a thin sled. There’s a whole sport, ski jumping, that’s basically just people flying.
My therapist tells me that a good way to deal with fear is to create order from chaos. In that spirit, I decided to rank the Winter Olympic sports by how afraid I would be to do them, beginning with the least terrifying.I would probably slip on the ice several times if I attempted to curl, but this is definitely the least frightening winter sport. All you’re doing is sliding heavy stones into a bull’s-eye and sweeping the ice with great fervor. None of the guys on the U.S.
When I watched some men’s downhill skiing Sunday night, it was quickly apparent that even the people who are the best in the world at this are still in terrible danger. The first guy I saw ate total shit. The next dude made it down okay, but then he took off his helmet and other accoutrements to reveal his face, which was smiling with relief and also dripping with blood.
A few days ago, I tuned into the men’s luge trials and listened to the commentators tell a charming story. Last year, they recalled, Polish luger Mateusz Sochowicz was practicing on the track in Beijing and hit a closed gate which cut his right leg to the bone and fractured his left kneecap.
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