I’ve noticed this year that I no longer watch the games solely for the reason of watching athletes display their physical abilities. It occurred to me this year that only certain athletes make the Olympics. Okay maybe this isn’t such a ground breaking revelation. What I’m trying to say is that only certain athletes, rich athletes, make the winter Olympics; which in turn means that there are more athletes who have at least one engineer as a parent in the Winter Olympics than in the Summer Olympics.
How did I come to this conclusion? Simple. It’s not as if winter Olympic athletes have to necessarily jump high, or run fast, of lift unbelievable amounts of weight. Winter Olympians compete in all of the expensive sports. Go skiing some time. By the time you’ve purchased a lift ticket, skis, ski clothes, etc… you’ve probably spent close to 500$, and this is not including the fee for a hotel room. What about ice hockey? All those pads! I spec’d out some hockey equipment for close to $600. I never paid more than $50 for a basketball jersey. And there was no ‘court fee’ for basketball, which if existed would be synonymous to what people pay to use an ice skating rink, also not cheap.
So it could only be that the parents of winter Olympians are fairly well off financially. Engineers make pretty good scrap last time I checked. Naturally, studies should show that my speculation is in fact truthiness. All I have to do now is get someone to conduct the study. Why they would want to? I can’t answer that, I just have to continue to hope someone one day has a ridiculous amount of time on their hands.
