Ross

Is it me or are the 1998 Winter Olympics about as exciting as watching old people speedwalk at the mall? Don't get me wrong, I'm as patriotic as the next guy, but when the nightly highlight show contains fifteen minutes of slow-motion replays of the day's curling competition (an event that's boring at regular speed), you know something is wrong.

So what's missing this time around? There's no Tanya Factor.

The Tanya Factor is a theoretical law of physics which takes into account th...