THE Winter Olympics have begun, and as usual it’s simple stuff you would easily excel at if you lived in a snowier country. Which would you choose?
Steve Malley, landscape gardener: “Four-man bobsleigh. You’re with your mates, you’re going downhill, how hard can it be? Personally I’d take a lager.”
Carolyn Ryan, wealth manager: “Figure skating. I could do a figure eight, and a zero, and a nine. I’d have a crack at four but you’d have to use your imagination a bit.”
Joseph Turner, interpreter: “I fancy myself for the Nordic Combined. That’s skiing, drinking heavily, paying £85 for a hamburger, a six-person orgy and solving a complex, moody murder.”
Jim Bates, cellist: “Biathlon. Ski a bit, shoot a bit, ski a bit. Basically it’s the Norwegian drive-by.”
Susan Traherne, magistrate: “I’ve not checked, but I assume the Winter Olympics is begun with some manner of ice flame?”
