3 weekly sports items in your inbox every Monday. This week: Team USA landed a huge biathlon recruit in the portal, a 110-point blowout, and a surprise skiing W.
My favorite not-quite-Olympic sports thing from the previous week: mixed team synchronized trampoline appeared in a world cup for the first time (leading into being part of the world championships for the first time, probably synchro's best chance at being included in the Olympics), and an American team, Alexandra Mytnik and Trevor Harder, won!
(My favorite actually-Olympic-sport thing from the previous week is from curling: Rachel Homan's rink winning their second straight Scotties, with Homan shooting 100% in the final.)
I'm thinking you can crib some music terminology for the title. Indie sports? Underground sports? Something about being the beat writer for offbeat sports maybe?
I'm with you in that I don't understand why Americans don't take to biathlon. We do love our guns here (sigh). I guess the snow and skis are so off-putting that fans ignore it. The atmosphere at a biathlon event is wild! We have a chicken-and-egg problem I guess. How do you get more people to watch when we don't win medals and how can we win medals when people don't watch (thus not participate and dump money into the program)?
Yay, excited for this to be weekly!
My favorite not-quite-Olympic sports thing from the previous week: mixed team synchronized trampoline appeared in a world cup for the first time (leading into being part of the world championships for the first time, probably synchro's best chance at being included in the Olympics), and an American team, Alexandra Mytnik and Trevor Harder, won!
(My favorite actually-Olympic-sport thing from the previous week is from curling: Rachel Homan's rink winning their second straight Scotties, with Homan shooting 100% in the final.)
i might have to write about BOTH of these
Last weekend was the Mixed Doubles Curling Olympic trials
What about niche sports as the title
I'm thinking you can crib some music terminology for the title. Indie sports? Underground sports? Something about being the beat writer for offbeat sports maybe?
"The Indie Sports Beat" has a nice ring to it.
I'm with you in that I don't understand why Americans don't take to biathlon. We do love our guns here (sigh). I guess the snow and skis are so off-putting that fans ignore it. The atmosphere at a biathlon event is wild! We have a chicken-and-egg problem I guess. How do you get more people to watch when we don't win medals and how can we win medals when people don't watch (thus not participate and dump money into the program)?
Because Americans like violence and there's no violence in shooting targets. Maybe if the competitors had to shoot each other...