Word: luge
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...huge for the Olympics, too, because the half pipe has become a happening, much like beach volleyball did at Bondi beach in Sydney. Nobody does a slow-mo wave at luge. "No one [of us] has seen people like that for a half-pipe contest," Thomas said. The trio admitted being awed by the crowd. "We're just stoked we got to come here," said the usually sarcastic Kass. Saving himself, he teased that, "I'm going to cry at the medal ceremony...
...cool as Olympic sports might look from the couch, rest assured that you are not necessarily missing anything by not being there in person. The luge, for example, is just kind of a whizzing noise and a blur every 50 seconds, after which everybody looks at one another and laughs the laugh of people who were just screwed into paying $1.25 per second of entertainment...
...though, is the security show. Salt Lake City is a $350 million U.S. Army theme park - the Disneyland of militarism with 16,000 cast members, an Eisenhowerian House of Horrors. Every block is a 12-year-old boy's dream. It may take an hour to get to the luge, but along the way, you can see National Guard maneuvers, talk to correctional officers from all over the country and see F-16s overhead. It's all the thrills of living in a Third World country without giving up one single chain restaurant...
...Impressed by the luge security, I wanted to see how intense it would be around the Governor of Utah. So I set up an appointment and arrived at the Capitol, where I learned you can get into the parking lot with nothing more than the statement, "I'm here to see the Governor." Luckily for me, this doesn't require memorizing his name. Also lucky for me is that Michael Leavitt's name is on his office door. There were no National Guardsmen in the building, no Secret Service, no bomb-sniffing dogs, none of the things that had made...
Well, it's a new millennium, and no doubt feeling heat from the X-Games generation, the International Olympic Committee has indeed invited the world's best skeleton riders. With a third ya-gotta-be-nuts sliding sport (along with bobsled and luge) now on the schedule, the slate of what Americans consider the Peripherals--nonmarquee sports that zoom into the sporting Zeitgeist every fourth year only to melt away in the post-Games thaw--is at an all-time high. At Salt Lake we'll have all kinds of sleds, cross-country races (some with guns!), ski jumps...