I have never really followed the Olympics. I'm not a big sports person in general, so I guess maybe that's the base of it, but I really have no desire to watch or follow anything going on with the Olympics.
Does anyone here watch the Olympics?
Don't watch it here either ID, only sport I watch is football.
I generally don't watch the Winter sports. Although the crazy course conditions from the weather is making some events a lot more interesting.
I enjoyed some of the winter sports (hockey) the slalom and figure skating...
I didn't enjoy the politicization, however...and everything that went on around that.
Hockey. That's about it.
I was watching until I learned some things about the place they are at. I learned that the buildings were constructed by laborers brought in from the east and most of them weren't paid. Essentially slave labor was used. I learned that a whole forest region was trashed. I learned that a whole bunch of people who lived in the area were told to get out. I learned that a good part of that area is now polluted from the construction of a lot of those buildings. If that wasn't enough the whole repressive regime in Russia and anti LGBT stance tipped the scales in me not watching anymore. I personally think that The United States should have boycotted.
OK that's my rant for today.
Yep. I try to watch, and at the very least keep my eye on, every Winter Olympics.
Canada is doing very well this year.
@Chasbo
A little surprising that you would consider USA needing to boycott Russia. Every major power has done things of questionable legality. Shall the world boycott the USA because of Iraq or Afganistan or Sweatshops or the housing bubble or deliberate monetary inflation?
Not saying what Russia did was right. Just saying that every government has done something wrong...
Nope, not me
Yawn. Moral equivalence sucks.
Personally I passionately go out of my way to avoid watching the Olympics. The whole thing reeks and, at least in the US, NBC couldn't line up enjoyable coverage of an event no matter how much time was available or money was on the line.
Bob Costas... blegh!
So, of course, my wife loves the Olympics and tries to catch every moment.
This. Since my very own Slovakia played like shit and was eliminated, i am cheering now for either Matt Duchene, Gabriel Landeskog or Paul Stastny, who all play for my beloved Avalanche!
Woot!
More good news for Canada.
Just watched Canada beat the USA in women's hockey. Gold 4 times in a row, yahooooooooooooooo!
Curling is just so....riveting to watch
I like to watch the bobsleds... the luge and skeleton are also pretty crazy to watch as well.
Those are good. Short Track Speed Skating can get crazy at times too with the shoves and falls.
I really can't be bothered with the Olympics, not since it became more about money than the competition. Far too much money is spent for the prestige of winning gold, and the lesser countries with small economies have little or no hope of competing against the wealthiest nations with $ to burn. Moreover, I don't like the fact it is so political these days, what with all the chest beating from the major nations, and various national Olympic Committee members unable to agree and coming to blows over national pride.
It's not about the sport anymore, but rather about which country can win the most gold medals to boost its national pride, and when the insane amounts of funding money could have gone to far more worthy and needy causes, I find the whole thing somewhat obscene. And when one athlete's special competition suit costs more than my entire lifetime wardrobe, it's bordering on feching criminal.
So no, I haven't watched one millisecond of the Winter Olympics. In fact, I haven't turned my TV on in a fortnight or so, other than to let my grandkids watch cartoons on the Cartoon Network, so I don't even see it on the news or in commercials... because I have zero tolerance for such things.
Cricket and Rugby League are the only sports I bother with, but not so fanatically anymore. Big money and power have infiltrated there as well, so neither are the clean, competitive sports they once were.