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Olympic sport short on legitimacy

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Sunday, February 12, 2006

TORINO -- Short track makes ice dancing, jai alai and Florida vote-counting look respectable. Critics complain that short track is nothing more than roller derby but that's insulting to all the legitimate, hard-working roller derby queens out there. Short track is a bad punchline, a sport that should come with cream pies, joy buzzers and whoopee cushions. It's slogan should be, "Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk." Consider Sunday open-mike night at the track. The men's 1,500 meters was billed as the long-awai ...

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