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welcome to the cocky ride home for Monday, February 14th, 2022.

I'm Jackson Bird.

Today, speed skiing, synchronized skating, ski ballet, and other rejected sports from the Olympics.

Plus, remember that SpaceX rocket stage headed for the moon? Turns out it is a

different piece of rocket junk, not from SpaceX at all. And the tropical disease that may be

on the verge of eradication in humans. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

It's the final week of the Winter Olympics, and as controversy continues to brew in multiple

directions for the current games, I thought I'd take a look back at some absolutely wild

sporting events that used to be briefly included in the Winter Olympics past.

Now, I've talked before about demonstration sports, sports that are showcased at the Olympic

Games, more so to promote the sport possibly for future inclusion rather than for standard

medal competition. It's often a sport that is popular in the host country,

like the U.S. has included American football, and Belgium has included corf ball. In the winter

games, however, we've got some other interesting events that were once included. In 1932 and

1952, the Olympics actually had sled dog racing, which of course is still a very

popular non-Olympic event, think the Iditarod.

Then another animal event was ski joring in 1928, which is like wakeboarding on snow, but

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