Who doesn't give a damn about the Winter Olympics?

[meltdown75]

lol i'm an ATer, everything popular is dumb lol lol lol lol

 

[Jzero]

I vastly prefer the winter olympics. Most of the bloated summer lineup is crap that I can see on TV any other day of the year anyway and they barely cover the crazy stuff like badminton, ping pong, etc.

Also it's the only time I can watch curling on TV in the US in my own home.

 

[oogabooga]

I love Olympic Hockey and can't wait to watch. I like the Winter Olympics in general and look forward to watching it. Speed Skating is neat to watch, and figure skating is mind-boggling crazy.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I love 'em.

 

[Platypus]

I don't care about any sports at all

same

 

[nerp]

Who gives a damn what you think?

 

[Regs]

I would love to visit Vancouver. Though the games don't seem competitive enough to me. Maybe if the USA was some small piss ant country with something to prove, I might care. Every year it seems like we play the guessing game in which country we'll beat USA and it gets boring.

 

[dighn]

meh

 

[OutHouse]

i like downhill and slalom events. speed skating. luge too. objective results ftw!

it will be curious on how those events fair since there is no snow on the Vancouver slopes. have you guys seen the news reports? lol its pretty sad.

the same thing happened with the calgary olympics. they should have had the Olympics in Colorado

 

[dainthomas]

The events without judges are cool (any kind of racing, hockey etc). I like watching snowboarding too but more for the cool moves, don't really care who wins.

 

[LittleMsSnuggie]

Meh, I couldn't care less about them. I like the summer a lot better.

 

[Jzero]

I would love to visit Vancouver. Though the games don't seem competitive enough to me. Maybe if the USA was some small piss ant country with something to prove, I might care. Every year it seems like we play the guessing game in which country we'll beat USA and it gets boring.

Except small piss ant countries with something to prove can't afford to field a competitior in every discipline which would make it REALLY boring. It's especially bad in the Winter Games where a lot of countries can't even think about fielding a team since not only do they have no money, they also have no ice/snow!

 

[Locut0s]

I vastly prefer the winter olympics. Most of the bloated summer lineup is crap that I can see on TV any other day of the year anyway and they barely cover the crazy stuff like badminton, ping pong, etc.

Also it's the only time I can watch curling on TV in the US in my own home.

Why is that anyway. Professional level badminton and ping pong (AKA table tennis) is AMAZING to watch!

 

[nerp]

The downhill skiing is incredible to me. So is the ski jump. Like holy shit.

 

[rockyct]

Curling FTW! Yay brooms!

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I give a damn about the winter Olympics. In fact, I'm going.

 

[Locut0s]

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I give a damn about the winter Olympics. In fact, I'm going.

I welcome you to our city

 

[RbSX]

You mean the summer olympics right? You do know that the events on cypriss mountain will have no snow, its sad, they are shipping in bales of hay to build runs from wood and hay, with whatever snow the machines can make ontop. This is going to be funny to watch, some guy wipes out and hay goes flying everywhere lol.

It's not going to be that bad, it got 10 inches of snow last night, and there's a 100cm base up there.

The major downhill events are at Whistler which has a nice base.

 

[Blackjack200]

Why is that anyway. Professional level badminton and ping pong (AKA table tennis) is AMAZING to watch!

I've wondered this myself. It's almost like they know it would be popular and don't want people to get into it or something :hmm:

 

[StageLeft]

I will watch it. Not as good as summer but I will watch it.

 

[Jzero]

Why is that anyway. Professional level badminton and ping pong (AKA table tennis) is AMAZING to watch!

I guess they figure people don't watch them. In the US we've got a weird chicken/egg situation where they give us all gymnastics/track/swimming/diving because they say that's what people want to watch, but that's all they show during "convenient" hours so that's all people watch. And beach volleyball. There was a LOT of coverage of rowing, for some reason as well...even though rowing actually makes for pretty boring television. Yet they showed very little whitewater which is far more fun to watch than flatwater rowing/paddling.

But then these offbeat sports that you don't see every day and are a blast to watch...if you catch them at all it's during off-times.

We get somewhat the same problem with winter - heavy focus on figure skating, downhill and speed skating at the expense of other events, but the relatively small number of events makes it less of a problem.

Annoying thing is the success of curling over the past 2 winter games has showed that if you give people a chance (and solid knowledgeable commentators to talk the viewers through like Don Duguid and the late Don Chevrier), they might come around!

 

[rockyct]

it will be curious on how those events fair since there is no snow on the Vancouver slopes. have you guys seen the news reports? lol its pretty sad.

the same thing happened with the calgary olympics. they should have had the Olympics in Colorado

LA would have been a better choice this year. There's 5-7 feet of fresh powder in the mountains nearby right now.

 

[sunzt]

speed skating FTW

 

[D1gger]

I normally don't watch the winter Olympics. I will be watching this year only because it it being held in one of my home towns, and I will be attending a couple of events (Canada vs. USA Hockey prelims and hopefully the gold medal game).

 

[lord_emperor]

People who don't give a damn would not even post about it.

Would be true except every night the news won't STFU about it and the overpriced marketing junk festoons the entrance of every department store.

Really, $10 for bright red, ineffective wool mittens?? No, I don't believe.

Maybe this is different outside BC, Canada. Can't wait til its over.

 

[Zebo]

I love winter Olympics. Down hill at 90 MPH awesome accidents. Ski jumping. The hot chicks on ice. High speed and hotness.

Summer is lame I like the 100m and 200m sprints because I used to do it but other than that pretty lame.

Usain Bolt = part god part horse.