Every winter Olympic sport ranked by how frequently your uncle thinks ‘I could do that’

14. Cross-country skiing

If you’re like me, the sheer sound of the phrase cross-country makes you want to coil up into a ball and crawl into bed with Netflix and a ton of junk food. 99 percent of the time, the phrase is inseparable from the thought of long distances. That’s because of the popular sport of cross-country running. Well, the Winter Olympics has its own version of cross-country in cross-country skiing. Unlike other events, the name of the event is pretty explanatory: it’s skiing for insanely long distances.

The 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang features 12 cross-country skiing events spread out over the course of 11 days. Unlike the Nordic combined, cross-country skiing features both men and women events. These events include the skiathlon, individual sprint classical, 10/15 km freestyles, 4×5/4×10 km relays, team sprint freestyles and 30/50 mass start classical for both men and women.

Chances are, not many people are claiming to be able to cross-country ski. However, those who do are mad. Cross-country skiing is one of the most physically demanding and endurance testing sports in the Olympics. Skiing distances of up to 50 km (31 miles, give or take a few decimals) in the freezing cold is no cake walk. If your uncle claims to be able to do this after learning the distances, tell him his rationale is all out of sorts. Just because you ran cross-country in high school and have learned to ski before, doesn’t mean you can participate in cross-country skiing — hence why it comes in at No. 14 on the list.