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Oddest Skills Combination

V E RSUS

Inside the Rings

SUMMER

BY CHAD FINN The 2018 Winter Olympics are underway in Pyeongchang, South Korea, but the contest we want to see is Winter Games against Summer Games. Both are highly watched extravaganzas. But only one can stand atop the podium.

Steeplechase, essentially a 3,000-meter obstacle course with a giant puddle. Sort of like jogging alongside the Charles in the spring.

Sports Played with Brooms WINTER

Top speeds

Curling, a sport popular in Canada that somehow makes sweeping on ice look fun.

Best Picture

WINTER

WINTER

Bobsled: ~95 MPH

SUMMER

David Broome, a Welsh show jumping champion, competed in five Olympics.

SUMMER

Cycling: ~45 MPH WINTER

SUMMER

Speedskating: > 30 MPH SUMMER

100M Dash: < 24 MPH

Miracle (2004). Kurt Russell channels 1980 US men’s hockey coach Herb Brooks’s guile and glare. But why does Easton’s Jim Craig have a New York accent?

Number of Sports

Chariots of Fire (1981). Actually won Best Picture, along with three other Oscars. Admit it: When you run on the beach, its theme song plays in your head.

Regional Dominance WINTER

Andrea Mead Lawrence (VT-skiing), Mike Eruzione (MA-hockey), Nancy Kerrigan (MAfigure skating) SUMMER

Aly Raisman (MAgymnastics), Joan Benoit Samuelson (ME-marathon), Jenny Thompson (NHswimming)

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T H E B O STO N G LO B E M AGA Z I N E

Most Extreme Sport WINTER

Ski jumping. It gave Wide World of Sports viewers the visual for “the agony of defeat.” SUMMER

Eventing. This equine sport includes dressage, show jumping and cross-country. Accidents are sometimes fatal, which led Time to ask if it is “The Olympics’ Most Dangerous Sport?”

Verdict SUMMER

These Games have more variety . . .

WINTER ... but snow-capped scenery and frost-proof athletes win the gold!

S O U R C E S : I M D B . C O M , O LY M P I C . O R G , S P O R T S I L L U S T R AT E D , Y O U T U B E , S P O R T S - R E F E R E N C E . C O M , T I M E M A G A Z I N E , T H E N E W YO R K T I M E S , A B C N E W S , S P O R T S . J R A N K . O R G ; P H OTO G R A P H S A N D I M A G E S F R O M A P

WINTER

Biathlon combines crosscountry skiing and rifle shooting, something only a survivalist or Bond villain would need.


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