Admittedly, this is a late comment, but I whole-heartedly agree with this sentiment on the Winter Olympics:

Ed Lee said that he was “loath to admit it, as a snowboarder”, but that ski cross, which was new for Vancouver, “eclipsed most of the snowboarding events”. No it didn’t. It eclipsed all the snowboarding events, and all the other events, too, up to and including the arrival of Captain Kirk through a hole in the floor.

Indeed, the big, take-away message from Vancouver was this: ski cross rocks. It makes snowboarding — including snowboard cross, on which it is modelled — look like an old fart’s game. Humps! Turns! Mid-air collisions! Tangling ski poles! These were the weeks in which poor, downtrodden, virtually obsolete skiing finally hit back against the snowboarding scene-stealers and said: “Shove this in your half-pipe and smoke it, you baggy-trousered upstarts.”

From The Times.