Say there's an "Olympics" of puzzle solving, where lots of different kinds of puzzles are featured. The throw out an unrealistic example, it would be like having a zero gravity space floating competition. For any of the other sports, you could just go to your local mountain or a frozen pond (realistically ice rink, but for the sake of the nature of the argument). To try the Luge or Skeleton, you would have to literally build a track on your local mountain. I feel that outside of a track, these vehicles are essentially useless, and should thus diminish the integrity of the sport. However, it is ultimately the track that allows them to follow such a clean path, and the movements just allow the athletes to maximize their efficiency on the line the track provides. The control in these sports come from adjustments made in weight shifts, and kicks and other minor motions to adjust their path on the track. Without tracks, they would be people on sleds zooming down a mountain with no control at all. However the Luge and Skeleton (and possibly Bobsled, but I feel it has more control than the previous two, I might be wrong), require tracks. Whether skiing or skating or even curling, all of these events can take place in a natural setting. Have you ever wondered about Luge and Skeleton as a sport in the Olympics? I mean every single event has some sort of connection to real life sports. While I was reading an article about Team Canada feeling that the Luge track was sabotaged, a thought came to mind.
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