The Olympics are always an interesting thing to watch. Let's face it, where else do you get to see two guys lying on top of each other flying down some icy tunnel at 100 miles per hour? Seriously, where else can you see that? And why don't they have women's luge doubles? Two women are better than one, that's what I always say...(Ok, I don't always say that, and really if we want to get into that, I'm not sure two women are better than one, but enough about that...) Mark Rayner at the skwib offers a variety of interesting ideas for new Olympic sports. A few days ago, if I'm not mistaken, he had some other ones as well, including a combination curling-luge event, which as a Canadian I'm bound to love. Imagine if it was the inebriated curling-luge event. Sign me up right now. (Heck, almost all curlers are inebriated, and you've got to be on something to compete in the luge.) Anyway, at IGotNewsForYou, we've come up with our own take on the Olympics. My dad wrote the story below. (To keep on the up-and-up, no submissions from current IGotNewsForYou team members are included in the fake news writing contest, that'd just be silly.) You have to imagine seeing this story on a web page (or on a printed poster) alongside others in a newspaper-style format. As the recipient of an IGotNewsForYou page or poster, your name would go into the story (replacing my own): *** Al’Qaeda is petitioning the Olympic International Committee to allow the organization to compete in the next Olympics. Spokesman, Benjamin Bin Yoskovitz, in a written statement to the IOC said, "We believe it is our divine right to compete. We have been training for years in the hills of Pakistan and could be serious contenders in several new events that we propose be adopted by the IOC. These include the 15,000 meter jalopy-driving and Kalashnikov-shooting biathlon, the synchronized bus bombing competition and the highest-ranking western delegate kidnapping event. US flag-burning can remain a demonstration sport." *** (Technorati Tags: olympics, humor, al-qaeda)