Should knitting be an Olympic sport?

Craft vs Sport and my own brush with gold

With the Paris Olympics the hot topic for the next couple of weeks of summer, hand knits might not be the first thing that comes to mind in conversation at the garden BBQ. However, my own Venn diagram of knitwear design and Olympic Games contains a few projects of note right in that overlapping middle ground. Craft and sport are often portrayed at oppos…