Vaulting (gymnastics on cantering draft horses) has also been a demo sport. Its not my favorite but on the other hand it's ten times more interesting to me than normal gymnastics with a stationary "horse." I could also do without modern pentathlon, in which the riding portion is disturbing to watch and dangerous. Having done some dressage, show jumping and eventing myself, they are exceedingly technical and athletic disciplines that the top level competitors achieve at a level that probably exceeds anything before in history. Skijoring would be a fine idea if there were more countries likely to be able to field athletes, but even better would be chariot racing, which is legitimately "olympic"! Horse races, bareback, were a staple of the original classical games. If you want another great youtube watch, look up "Indian Relay" featuring actual Native Americans speeding around a racecourse bareback. Barrel racing, sorry, does not deserve to be an olympic sport.
Odd fact: My parish church is for some obscure reason, unknown to me, oriented east-to-west instead of the normal west-to-east. I only recently noticed this, much to my astonishment. Anyway, this means that when mass is celebrated normally (NO), with priest facing the laity, he is actually celebrating ad orientem, or at least eastward facing.
Skijoring rules, and is very fun to try (even with a slow pony and amateur skiers it's lots of fun). They have a similar kind of racing in Switzerland. Like this video shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KqiVe06FMA
Anybody who has read a modicum of Aristotle’s writings would find preposterous the assertion that Aristotle made such an obvious blunder as to say that males have a greater number of teeth than females (in men, goats, sheep and swine). It must be the case that the text in which such statement is purportedly made has been corrupted in transmission. Rather than saying that males have “more” teeth, the text should read “larger” teeth. See Aristotle on the History of Animals and on the Parts of Animals.
The International Olympic Committee is irredeemably corrupt, tainting the Olympics. The Chinese Communist Party is an abomination responsible for the deaths of countless Chinese subjects (Han, Tibetan, Uyghur, etc.) & countless others around the globe. I cannot in good conscience support any international sporting event that functions as a public relations fig leaf for the C.C.P. Boycott the Beijing Olympics!
Rhythmic gymnastics. What is wrong with you?!?
Vaulting (gymnastics on cantering draft horses) has also been a demo sport. Its not my favorite but on the other hand it's ten times more interesting to me than normal gymnastics with a stationary "horse." I could also do without modern pentathlon, in which the riding portion is disturbing to watch and dangerous. Having done some dressage, show jumping and eventing myself, they are exceedingly technical and athletic disciplines that the top level competitors achieve at a level that probably exceeds anything before in history. Skijoring would be a fine idea if there were more countries likely to be able to field athletes, but even better would be chariot racing, which is legitimately "olympic"! Horse races, bareback, were a staple of the original classical games. If you want another great youtube watch, look up "Indian Relay" featuring actual Native Americans speeding around a racecourse bareback. Barrel racing, sorry, does not deserve to be an olympic sport.
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Odd fact: My parish church is for some obscure reason, unknown to me, oriented east-to-west instead of the normal west-to-east. I only recently noticed this, much to my astonishment. Anyway, this means that when mass is celebrated normally (NO), with priest facing the laity, he is actually celebrating ad orientem, or at least eastward facing.
Skijoring rules, and is very fun to try (even with a slow pony and amateur skiers it's lots of fun). They have a similar kind of racing in Switzerland. Like this video shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KqiVe06FMA
Love the skijoring!
Anybody who has read a modicum of Aristotle’s writings would find preposterous the assertion that Aristotle made such an obvious blunder as to say that males have a greater number of teeth than females (in men, goats, sheep and swine). It must be the case that the text in which such statement is purportedly made has been corrupted in transmission. Rather than saying that males have “more” teeth, the text should read “larger” teeth. See Aristotle on the History of Animals and on the Parts of Animals.
The International Olympic Committee is irredeemably corrupt, tainting the Olympics. The Chinese Communist Party is an abomination responsible for the deaths of countless Chinese subjects (Han, Tibetan, Uyghur, etc.) & countless others around the globe. I cannot in good conscience support any international sporting event that functions as a public relations fig leaf for the C.C.P. Boycott the Beijing Olympics!