Sport 5.6m warm to ice maidens The Curling last night was gripping for two reason. The possibility we might win. We didn't have clue what was going on. There is nothing more boring than actually understand the rules of engagement. Why the brushes? Why the screaming? Why anything? This is of course not even the most most nonsensical of games. That prize goes to the Indian sport of Kabaddi, which Channel Four took great delight in showing for seemingly hours at a time in the early Nineties (before Italian Football came along). This seemed to consist of half-naked men dragging each other around a sandpit the size of a volleyball court for half an hour. Now there's a sport the British could really excel at...

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