I can't think the sport is boring and repetitive without it being a macho thing? I'm just not sure what the difference between figure skating and any other winter olympic individual sport is, aside from the judging scores (which they've tried to get better at by having no top score and every "trick" have a base score before deductions). I get that the ice dancing is pretty lame since there are basically zero jumps, so it's all artistic flair, but figure skating is similar especially to any of the other trick based events in skiing and snowboarding. At the olympics, I prefer to watch the events in which the olympic event is definitely the biggest deal for the sport. With all the skiing and snowboarding trick events at the X-games, I actually prefer figure skating to the two. I was just being flippant, but honestly I prefer none of the above. The winter games are awful because so many of the events are arbitrary judged silliness, figure skating and trick skiing included. That the figure skating is so popular and abundant in the winter games and therefore gets so much airtime(even relative to gymnastics in the summer games) makes it worse. Agreed, the winter Olympics are easily MUCH worse than the summer games. Plus: hockey. It's a nightmare that robs me of my TV shows. what TV shows are you missing at 10am on a Wednesday?