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I don't really have an opinion, CC skiing is not my passion and if there are "classic enthusiasts" then I can understand why they would want to preserve its tradition and legacy.

But sports are changing and evolving all the time.

In ski jumping, even into my early adulthood, skiers were penalized for not using the "classic" style which is called parallel.  Ultimately the new V-style took over as skiers realized that the distances they could attain by abandoning the parallel style far outweighed the penalties levied by judges for not "looking right."  The new V-style is also safer which is an added benefit.

That's one major and fairly recent example, but obviously the technology (and mankind's ability to build more advanced structures and playing fields) has changed numerous other sports over the decades.

So Deadspin really doesn't like Shaun White:

"I know Shaun White never had a chance with me, even if he wasn’t an obnoxious, harassing tool. 20 years ago, snowboarding was forced into the Olympics so Americans could win an event for once. They mostly did, White did most of that, and he’s been bothering us ever since."

"The thing about White was that he was forced upon us, and they kept telling us he had a personality, which he very much doesn’t. He has the appearance of one, because he was the face of this new sport when he was very young and it sprang into the mainstream. He was supposedly the face of a new generation of athletes, or Olympic athletes at least. What he was was a vehicle for the IOC and NBC and their sponsors to try and connect the Games to a generation they wanted to sell ads for. It didn’t matter that he was a vacuous turd, because in the eyes of NBC and the IOC, every one under the age of 30 who wasn’t already watching The Games was a vacuous turd. He was basically sports-Poochie."

"White says this is his last Games, and he’s certainly got enough money to do whatever he wants. Just as long as he does it where no one else has to watch. He had nothing to offer, was a grating presence, and was basically used to sell Pepsi. Enough people pretended to care every four years about his exploits, and he would get another series of endorsements off of that before the cycle began again. All the while looking like he should be hit with a toilet badly. The only loss was that he didn’t come off one of the jumps and land in one of the decommissioned nuclear plant smokestacks in Beijing. That would truly have been a crowning achievement."








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Most of the content on the internet is based on jealousy.

I'd say that's why you have Texas fans posting on a Big Ten board, but that would be uncalled for

Wow.

That was mean-spirited and hurtful.

was he telling us to take a hike?

where in hell did that come from

I wont be able to eat for days

ELA how long has this been building up man

You can open up to us

You just need a hug 

I mean, we could point out that a dude from Tennessee actually owns and operates this "Big Ten" board and then ask what he's doing hanging around on a Tennessee board, but that would seem uncalled for as well.

I assumed it was an apology for costing the Big Ten half an NC by laying an egg in the 1998 Orange Bowl

Figure skating is great, aside from the judging aspect, which just invites tomfoolery.