Snow and ice

Winter Olympics - what do you think?  The Olympic motto is "Faster, higher, stronger" and I personally feel that anything which does not meet those criteria should not be included - and on this basis there's much in the winter games which perhaps doesn't deserve to be there.  Figure skating for one - artistic it may be, but I don't see it as a sport, where the outcome is decided empirically, but as a performance, where the outcome is a matter of the subjective opinion of the judges.  Same thing goes for this modern inclusion of snowboarding and skiing events where the idea is to do aerial tricks more appropriate to inner-city adolescent showing-off.  And then there's curling - bowls crossed with housework as somebody put it - which however skillful it may be does not depend on the winners being faster, higher or stronger than the opposition.  There's plenty there to enjoy (downhill skiing, bobsleigh, speed skating etc.) but a lot that I don't think should be there.  The one I'm not too sure about is ski-jumping - if it were just decided on the basis of distance, I would have no problem - but style marks??