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heh. they speak truth!
Sep. 24th, 2007 10:04 amFrom today's Curling News:
Full disclosure: I say this having been a whiner myself, by the way. Several of us, self and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flt included, raised a bit of a stink at the Women's Challenge last year when we observed that the losers of the two first-event semifinal games would be out of the spiel (we have been brought up to believe that being eliminated by your first loss, or "losing out of the first event", is very, very wrong). This may have seemed self-serving as those of us doing the complaining were still alive in the first event at the time, so we stood to be affected by it; so there it is. (Our team went on to win our semifinal, of course, so we were not eliminated by our first loss, or in fact at all, because we won the whole shebang.) But listen, okay, this was a regional women's five-and-under event, and that's how whiny we were. Now imagine the scale of an international men's event with money and world qualifying points on the line -- and raise the whininess to that power.
It's impressive, is all I'm saying.
Winnipeg is in an uproar today as the internal news of Asham's cancellation of that city's major Asham World Curling Tour event has now exploded into the public forum (also located here).Nothing is universally true, of course. But speaking generally? Competitive curlers have entitlement complexes on the ice that rival other athletes' entitlement complexes off the [ice, track, field, etc.]. Lawsy!
The Curling Show was quick to get Arnold Asham himself on the horn, and while there are varying reasons why the event has been cancelled, there is one idea percolating which The Curling News must sadly agree with: curlers – in particular the competitive breed – are indeed among the biggest whiners in the world of sports.
Full disclosure: I say this having been a whiner myself, by the way. Several of us, self and
flt included, raised a bit of a stink at the Women's Challenge last year when we observed that the losers of the two first-event semifinal games would be out of the spiel (we have been brought up to believe that being eliminated by your first loss, or "losing out of the first event", is very, very wrong). This may have seemed self-serving as those of us doing the complaining were still alive in the first event at the time, so we stood to be affected by it; so there it is. (Our team went on to win our semifinal, of course, so we were not eliminated by our first loss, or in fact at all, because we won the whole shebang.) But listen, okay, this was a regional women's five-and-under event, and that's how whiny we were. Now imagine the scale of an international men's event with money and world qualifying points on the line -- and raise the whininess to that power.It's impressive, is all I'm saying.
