If you could experience an Olympic winter sport, via virtual...

[3catwoman3]

...reality or some other method, which one/ones would you pick?

My first choice would be ski jumping. Those few seconds of soaring and floating look absolutely exhilarating!

Pairs ice skating would be my other choice. To be able to create such beauty must be so satisfying.

No moguls for me - it makes my teeth and knees hurt just to watch.

[Kingofalldems]

1. Ski jumping.

[BarbaRosa]

2. Yup, ski jumping.

[bdamomma]

3. Ski jumping also

and skating my two favourites.

[TlalocW]

4. Cross Country Stoop Tag

The majesty of it combined with the stamina required is breathtaking.

TlalocW

[3catwoman3]

23. When my husband and I were first married, he was...

...stationed at KI Sawyer AFB in the upper peninsula of Michigan. We took up cross country skiing. I had no idea that there was any uphill involved, and I remember taking off my skis, waling up the hill, and sobbing in frustration, wondering who the hell thought it was a good idea to try to go uphill with WAXED boards under your feet - NUTSO!!!

I eventually mastered the technique for doing so, but it still makes me cringe when I see long uphill sections in televised competitions.

[dchill]

5. Ditto, ski jumping.

I was actually thinking about that earlier.

[applegrove]

6. I once skied down the woman's downhill trail that had been used

for the woman's downhill circuit two weeks before. It was at Lake Louise. The hill was so steep in places that I had to slide down it on my ***. The women would have gone off it like a jump at 90 miles an hour. I did it in a very wide slalom. No way will I ever picture myself doing a winter Olympic event again. Those people are nuts.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

19. Yes, had the same experience on a double black diamond trail at Alta...

steep narrow trail with boulders on either side... holy crap! Never been so scared in my life!! How I came down that part of the mountain was not even remotely related to skiing!! Haha!!

[applegrove]

21. I just could not get over how those women went straight down the whole

thing without turning. Cray Cray. I knew ski racers in highschool. You knew who they were because their knee braces would rattle as they walked down the hall.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

30. IKR!!

[TexasTowelie]

7. Figure skating.

As shown by my posts in the Sports Group. I'll have a repertoire of quadruple jumps and dazzling spins including the Biellmann spin. I promise to point my toes too.

[nocalflea]

26. I could never figure out why NASA went with fighter pilots over figure skaters.

The prolonged spins (whatever they're called ) alone are jaw-dropping. I couldn't walk let alone skate after trying one of those and I suspect most fighter pilots couldn't either.

[democratisphere]

8. Alpine Downhill, Two Man Bobsleds and Slopestyle Snow Boarding

[shanny]

11. Is there much to see in a bobsled?

never tried it but it doesn't seem likely.

[democratisphere]

15. Better be paying attention and driving or it could get very ugly!

[Control-Z]

16. They did a virtual video recording on the single course.

I don't know bobsled from any of the other races but this was a single athlete on his back going down feet first. The video view was between his feet.

Did you see it? I think it was on Sunday.

[shanny]

31. I didn't see it--

But single person on back feet first is luge...and I bet that was a wild ride!

[Control-Z]

38. Yes, that's it!

Right after I posted my reply here I saw Stinky The Clown's post and the first thing he had was a pic of the luge!!!

A wild ride for sure!

[Retrograde]

32. One person gets to see

the other three are mostly ballast. I still think it would be fun, though.

[shanny]

34. Without a doubt!

[shanny]

9. Downhill.

[NightWatcher]

10. Curling 🥌 Just to be sliding with those stones. Kidding, ladies figure skating, duh.

That'd look trippy, I bet.

[sarah FAILIN]

17. I love curling!

I have zero idea how you score, but I sit and watch when it's on. We crack up watching the sweeping.

[jmowreader]

12. Four-man bobsleigh

[TomSlick]

13. Bobsled or luge

Then again, I keep thinking it would be fun to go down the track on a Flexible Flyer.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Luge . . . . luuuuuuuge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge!

Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge! Luge!



Followed closely by BOBSLEEEEDDDDDD!!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

20. Me too!!!

[FuzzyRabbit]

22. ME THREE !!!!!

[Control-Z]

24. Luge - that is the one they made a recording of

with the view of the rider between his feet.

[Takket]

18. Skeleton

But I would never do it in real life!!

[gratuitous]

25. You and me both

Flying down the course face first would be a gas. As long as there was no possibility of punching my ticket doing it.

[Retrograde]

33. We kinda did it when I was a kid

nowhere within 2 orders of magnitude of the speeds these guys get, but we used to go down hills head first on our sleds. And the hills were only about 20 feet high, but other than that it was the same, yes?

[moondust]

27. snowboard slopestyle

Ski jumping acrobatics.

On one ski! Yikes!

Watch 17-year-old Red Gerard win Gold!!!

[TeamPooka]

28. Hot chocolate drinking by the fire. #GoldMedal

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

29. Apres ski

I've been in training all my life

[Raine]

35. Ski jumping

what thrill!

[jberryhill]

36. Snowball fighting

[crazycatlady]

37. ski jumping