I must admit I haven’t watched Men’s Snowboard Cross that much over the years. This is one of the newer Olympic events, one of the winter extreme sports added to the list of competitions. As I watch the qualifying the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, I realized something. I was bored. Worse, I was bored stiff.
The qualifiers go down this long course on their snowboards. There are a lot of turns and some jumps.
However, the jumps aren’t to show tricks or height. It’s just an obstacle, or feature as they apparently call it. I watched these men make their way down the course and couldn’t wait for it to end. I didn’t quite get the excitement in how the qualifying was done.
Then I figured it out, a little, when I liked the qualifying for this event to the NASCAR qualifying. While the top 35 cars are ...