Thread: Olympics

Is anyone else spending half their days off watching the Olympic coverage? I like the downhill events, especially the new Snowboard events and of course Le Hockey.

The thing that wows me about this event is how different the athletes are from the 'pros'. These Olympic athletes have so much sportsmanship in them. As a perfect example, a Finnish coach handed a pole to a Canadian cross country skier who had broken her pole within four strides of having broken it! The Canucks went on to take silver (falling back from first place to fourth during the fateful four strides) while the Finns finished fourth, just out of medal standing! Do you hear any Finns complaining tough? Hell no. Now that's sportsmanship. Thank-you Finland for that. And to any Olympians who might read this (or if anyone knows any, please pass this on) my hat comes off to you all for your achievements whether on the podium or further down the standings. Your example is exemplary.

X

Actually I was wondering if anyone was watching it this year...this is the first winter olympics I really have not paid much attention too...although I do love slalom and snow boarding events...for some reason its just not doing it for me this year...I dont know why...

i stopped watching the Olympics years ago...work was always a conflict and I just didn't make it a priority. 4 years ago the Olympics were hosted here in SLC, and I didn't see a single event.

RT

I watch them on CBC. I pick up their coverage as I live in metro Detroit and get the feed from Windsor. The only drawback (no offence to my Canadian friends) is that their coverage, rightfully so, is of the Canadian athletes/teams. However, I think NBC's coverage of the Olympics (both Summer and Winter) sucks. Very little of the games are shown live, and the amount of coverage is much too little for my liking. I preferred watching the Olympics on television much better when ABC covered the games.

Just my little

Jeff