How many sports should be Olympic events?
When out in Quebec I wound up watching some of the Olympics in the evenings, but since then I haven't watched a whole lot. I even wound up missing all of yesterday's hockey game being at a church meeting.
One of the bits that I did catch live was the winning of the first Canadian gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics. Looked kinda cool, but that said he didn't look a whole lot more cool than the other competitors. Personally, I think that the number of events is getting too large - my understanding is that the number of events at the winter olympics has roughly tripled since the '60s. Personally I'd start by eliminating all the events wherein position is determined solely by a panel of judges.
Although the following comic is focused more on U.S. politics than the Olympics it sorta seems to fit. How many different vehicle types do you need to score going down a track for example? Is there really a need for luge and skeleton and bobsleigh?
