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    Posted: August 06 2016 at 21:54
Putting aside all the corruption and other nonsense of the Olympic committee and such, anyone pay attention to the Olympics?  

I usually will put it on some, but mute the sound and listen to music while watching.  Enjoy the different sports that are not typically mass marketed and do not see very often and the drama plus emotion that may occur during some of the competition.  For most, I would think, this is their moment to shine or fail after training for 4 years.

Curious if anyone keeps up with it.
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Opening ceremonies?   Volleyball?   Yeah, no.

I'll take some judo though, and gymnastics, marathon, decathlon -






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Nope.  Would rather watch the local high school/college sports, hockey and football mostly.

I do enjoy figure skating when I happen to catch them.


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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Nope.  Would rather watch the local high school/college sports, hockey and football mostly.

I do enjoy figure skating when I happen to catch them.


pretty much same here... I always found the Winter Games to be far more interesting than the Summer games.
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I'll ignore the powder puff personality pieces from NBC and all the major sports that have no reason to be there (tennis, golf, basketball, etc). I'll pick and choose the stuff I don't see for 4 years, archery, volleyball, swimming & the like. As a Brit living in the USA I do find the myopic focus on the US athletes frustrating. Yes I know there is a wonderful girl from Iowa, whose mother had to sacrifice to get her to the Olympics, in third but who won the bloody race? 
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and you hit the nail on the head of the real turn off for me of the summer games... the proliferation and focus of major sports (and professional players)  that simply shouldn't be there. Losing what should be the focus.. sports you only really see every 4 years.. but people who truly do bust their asses to have this one moment in the sun... instead.. saturation of how many dunks and ass kicking  the basketball team threw down on the Chinese.

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Not really. My interest in politics has reached its maximum level on consuming a bit of verbal fast food about it Tongue.
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was considering watching the golf till everyone dropped out... and even though it should've never been re-included in the games but, no, no I won't be watching

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I watched the last half of the U.S women's soccer victory over France yesterday, and then about 5 minutes of U.S. v. China in basketball, yawned, and went on to do other things. I probably won't watch again.
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Nope. Except for the gross water thing they warned the athletes about. I'll hear how many medals Canada's got no matter where I am though.

Fun fact: Canada advertises number of medals on the news/in newspapers over what kind of medal. So we'll see "Canada wins first medal!!" on the front page but will have to turn to page 11 to see what kind of medal it was.

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I missed the opening ceremonies, which is usually the only thing I watch.
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that little Brazilian girl Flavia Seraiva is amazing, her size must be a big advantage -
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Points: 34050 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 01:06
IOC is a big turn off, from watching Olymics
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It's also good to note that my country is suspended from participating . Participation was the only thing we were good at. And now we can't even do that.
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I don't care about the Olympics.

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Points: 1787 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 07:48
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

that little Brazilian girl Flavia Seraiva is amazing, her size must be a big advantage -


She was amazing indeed, fun to watch.  Enjoyed the gymnastics last night and the swimming/diving events.


I won't go near the basketball, tennis, or golf events as the pros make those boring and should not be in the games.  Never understood beach volleyball getting in as an Olympic event, other than the obvious visual reasons...  

I guess there are number of head scratching events that get in via some back getting scratched somewhere in the IOC.  But all that crap aside, I still will watch some of the classic events with the sound muted to avoid sappy USA media stories while listening to prog on my headphones.
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Points: 20468 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 08 2016 at 08:09
We did watch the opening ceremonies for the entertainment value....wasn't bad......I might watch some basketball and tennis  over the next week or so . I don't really get into all the track and field, swimming, gymnastics, etc..etc...
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