23.02.10
As much as I'm enjoying watching the Winter Olympics, I must tolerate that I think "bonus curling coverage" is an oxymoron. That's not a entertainment. That's a game. Anything you can do while you drink beer should not qualify as an Olympic romp. But if the Olympics want curling in the mix, why not fly fishing?
I wonder who would win medals in the different fly fishing disciplines. Not just that dopey Euro-nymph force they do at the fly fishing world championships. Also some exciting, made-for-television events:
Want distance casting into a wind machine... Gotta invent the team from the Bahamas would dominate. Maybe Argentina would win silver. Belize takes bronze.
Two-handed Spey on targets. Significant Britain takes gold. Canada wins the silver (unless the fly fishing Olympics were in Canada, then they'd take bronze). Fling-up between Norway and Sweden for the bronze.
Czech nymphing. Poland wins gold (because they very started it). Slovakia earns the silver, and the Czechs take bronze, then with dispatch start reunification talks with the Slovaks.
Source: Field and Stream (blog)