Olympic End
Weeks of athletes’ stories, crummy Olympic tele coverage, and endless Olympic commercials have done come to a close. The two year countdown clock is on for the Winter Olympics!
So what do you prefer? Summer or Winter Olympics?
Weeks of athletes’ stories, crummy Olympic tele coverage, and endless Olympic commercials have done come to a close. The two year countdown clock is on for the Winter Olympics!
So what do you prefer? Summer or Winter Olympics?
I’m Canadian, so I think I’m honor-bound to put my vote in on winter.
I never can catch the events I’m interested in for the Summer Olympics, anyhow D:
I prefer EITHER the Summer or Winter Olympics over the barrage of political ads, campaigns and debates that are about to start up here in the US. Countless tons of money spent on a populace who aren’t going to change their votes anyway.
Want an idea? Just flip a coin for the Presidency and each congressional seat (incumbents supply the coin; challengers make the call), then take all the money saved from NOT producing and airing negative campaign ads and use it to retire the national debt.
I wonder if Rye is achieving his goals. Hmmmm.
I’d have to say either olympics are o.k. with me. The coverage was a little chaotic this year though. Those two weeks went by super fast.
Sitting in a pub watching the olympics? Maybe not such a bad idea.
I’m anti-Olympics, summer or winter; in my broadcast area each preempts Jeopardy.
Lycra is a privilege, not a right.
Cy… understandable… you do get a fair amount of snow up your way.
Pete… I’m with you. It always amazes me how much money is spent on advertising, when in fact that money COULD be raised to eliminate the national debt… or raise money for schools, or any number of other noble causes.
Jack… he’s moving in a direction (by sitting in a pub, of course).
Squid… I was a bit annoyed with the coverage this year. Ryan Seacreast giving us updates on Twitter & Facebook… REALLY? NOT acceptable. And why not show us more coverage of other sports rather than lots of documentaries… and why not show us the stories of unpoplular athletes… not just the ones that have a medal shot… GAH! I could go on and on…..
Beetle… condolences.
Rob… Exactly! And by the way, did anybody notice how SKIMPY low the diving speedos were? DANG!
Owch!
…well, it IS Ryan. What has he ever accomplished, other than rhyming and whining?
I prefer winter Olympics. Don’t know why, specifically, I just think the events are more fun to watch.
The thing with olympic competitors is that they give extreme, sprint-like versions of their “all” at the games. Kinda’ like how cheetahs can hit something like 70 mph in short bursts and then need to rest. In real life, folks adust and give half-effort versions. They’ve got to or burn-out.
Rob… Lyrca sould be called either “like’s-ya” or “doesn’t-like-ya” as it likes some body types and doesn’t like others.
Ah, olympic coverage… It was a volleyball and diving overload, although the girls’ “outfits” where nice. And boy did they ever milk your viewing commitment: they started off with a documentary on England before the next to last day’s bouts, and did a full-on retrospective of just about every event before getting on with the closing ceremony.
brig… You forgot John Mc Enroe’s value-lacking, filler commentaries and interviews. I do gotta say that I found Jimmy Fallon’s late night bits amusing, however. Oh, and I like cooler weather… it’s so nice to be away from Sac when it’s 101, 105, 106 there and 59, 61, 62 (high temps) over here in “Cypress City… so I have to side with the Winter Olympics.
I somehow managed to be born without a sports gene.
Unfortunately, spandex will now be on those who should never, ever, be seen in publick in anything remotely resembling stretchy fabric. EEEWWWWWWW!
Agreed. One of my favorite movie lines is from Hackers: “Spandex. It’s a privilege, not a right.”
And that’s coming from a guy who definitely doesn’t have the right, at least not for spandex.
I like the Olympics. Summer is better. But I tend to root against the U.S. I love my country and all but we have the most athletes, the most money, the best gyms. Who likes to root against the under dog? The U.S. always wins the medal count. Booorrr-iiiing!
Dada… Ryan… uh… he’s ah… hmmm…
stick… Yah… I didn’t mind the Volleyball at all as I am a fan. When I lived in Sandy Eggo, I would go out and watch the Pro Beach Volleyball matches on the beach… it was great fun. But yah, I was pretty annoyed with the timing of the documentary. It would have been better to air that just before the Olympics and not at a time when we were expecting some Ceremonies! Gah.
UWG… I love bowling… I enjoy baseball… volleyball. I think that’s kinda it.
Ruth & Grey…. I don’t mind the spandex if the person can wear it. Outside of the professional sports and Olympic-ness, it should be used sparingly.
Jack… Ya know… I see your point. I was cheering on England and France… and the home country… and the underdogs…
@Jack/Brig
Unless both of you are under 30, you get a polite spank of shameful reminder that it is only relatively recently that our “professional” athletes have been allowed to compete in the Olympics. 😛
I am just old enough to remember a time when we actually enforced the concept of it being an event for “amateur” athletes and those who were classified as professional were not allowed to compete. Which wasn’t fair, because we were one of only a few countries that had professional leagues for a lot of these sports (the ONLY country for some of them), so a lot of countries, mainly eastern Europe and Asia, had a severe advantage over us because they were sending athletes that by our definition were professionals. IOW, train every day, year round, and have top-notch support resources – going up against our so-called amateurs.
Look back in the news archives back in the 70’s and 80’s for the diatribes about how countries like East Germany (fun fact, kids out there – for about 40 years Germany was TWO countries! :D) or Bulgaria would send athletes who trained using government-provided supplies and facilities and had more resources than even our pro’s had available. Lots of steroids too, just look for the satirical articles about Bulgarian women with mustaches or boy-parts. ::snicker::
We were getting creamed, every time.
Then we finally made the case that we should be allowed to open the doors to all, and that was the first year they coined the term “The Dream Team” for our Olympians … that was the year we sent several of our pro basketball and hockey players and finally we wiped the floor with the other countries the way they’d been doing to us.
Granted, I would have preferred they instead actually tightened the standard to return it to a true amateur competition but without a solid definition and a way of enforcing it – what we got was an acceptable alternative.