Will you watch the Olympics?

[kgord]

I will watch some of the Olympics, but honestly, I prefer the Winter games to the Summer games. I am looking forward to seeing a bit of Brazil though. It is such a beautiful place. I mean the beaches are outstanding. However, it is a poor country and I am sure they won't be showing the slums when they show Rio. You will just see the parts of the city they want you to see. Hopefully, the games will bring a lot of money into the city.

 

[CrepesforDapes]

Honestly, I probably will not be. I've never been much of a sports fan, and the Olympics seems like every other sports event to me, except it's a bunch of different sports, rather than a single one. I don't really see the appeal about sports, but I definitely see why some people enjoy watching the Olympics. If I was more into the sports that are gonna be broadcast, I definitely would watch it. However, I might read up on some of the shocking/big upcoming games. I might watch a few parts of the games that people are really looking forward to. I'll have to research that though, since I'm not really sure which teams are favored in certain categories.

 

[EntropiaAddict]

Having played semi-professional beach volleyball when I was younger, I will definitely be watching the volleyball games during the Olympics. My spouse will be watching the swimming and gymnastics competitions, which means I will likely watch those also. My kids enjoy gymnastics, diving, track and field, and basketball, so we will be watching those also. Guess that means for various reasons, the Olympics will basically be the only thing on in my house over the next 10 days...

 

[Alex]

I always end up watching a few of the events but only when there is nothing else on. When they were on in London (and I lived there) my flatmate was a dancer on the opening parade and had a pass to see all the events and she would go and tell me what happened. The sad thing was the tickets were so expensive in London for locals, and I wonder if the crowds will be full in Brazil?


I think for us in Europe the timings will make a difference as to whether people are awake or at work. Bolt is probably the one to watch and is hyped up already, and I think that will be fun. In the old days I caoudl run 100m in 13 seconds, but that was in the last century.

 

[kgord]

Yeah, I agree with that. I will mostly be watching it when nothing else is on. I did watch the opening ceremonies last night though and I thought they were pretty impressive. I just thought that they were pretty well done, and I really liked the beautiful colors. It was defintely something different than the usual Friday night fare so I appreciated having something different to watch. I just think the games are a positive addition to the normal summer fare.

 

[Sue]

I will probably watch some of them. I like the gymnastics and any of swimming events. I will be cheering on our Canadian athletes so I will probably watch anything that they compete in. It always makes me sad though to see some of these athletes who train so hard only to have something go wrong at the Olympics but that is all a part of it I guess. There is a lot of hard work and dedication goes into being an Olympian. I also look forward to seeing Brazil and learning more about their country.

 

[fuzyon]

I will but not all the events. I'm particularly interested in football and I managed to catch the Brazil vs South Africa match (although a pretty poor one) so I'm hoping to see a lot of that at Rio, it's sad that there won't be a lot of top quality teams but it should still be fun. That being said, I do think they have made a mistake by hosting the Olympics in Brazil, so many competitors have stayed home due to Rio it's pretty crazy.

 

[Jemina]

I've been watching it since it started. I like to get to see the athletes that don't always get so much recognition or don't have their sports shown on TV as much. I think the fact that these athletes can get more of a worldwide recognition is great. As for what specific events I'll be making the effort to watch though, I'll be watching swimming, diving, sailing, rowing, gymnastics, cycling.... Well I'll probably watch whatever's on to be honest!

 

[Laneorexorcist]

Well, even if on a daily basis I'm not a fan of sports at all, I still really like to watch the olympics. I guess that is because you really get to see how variate sports can be, and I think that's great. And you also get to feel al the emotion of the athletes somehow... A lot of them have really interesting backgrounds and I don't know, seeing them succeed on that way it's almost heartwarming. My country is not really good at sports, so there's not really a patriotic emotion involved, lol.

 

[djordjem87]

I love sports and I love the Olympic Games. I really do think they are overpaid and I mean all of them but I do like to see the competition. My favourite is athletics. I love all the disciplines and I always follow through all of them. Bold was great yesterday I think. I failed to see that live but I saw it in the rerun. My national team, Serbia, had some expectations but they failed to deliver, especially in tennis since Djokovic was defeated in the first round but I don't care about tennis, I see it as an overpaid amateur sport. I am very pleased to see the basketball team playing better defeating Chinese team. We do hope to see some medals after all. Ivana Spanovic in long jump, Kolasinac in shot put and water polo and basketball, maybe even volleyball in both women and men competition.

 

[hades_leae]

I didn't watch the Olympics on TV, but I have watched many clips on Youtube since it has been on. It doesn't interest me that much, many of these events could go on yearly, I don't know why it's every so many years, it's kind of annoying to me, but hey that's the way people want it.


I like watching the running, and some gymnastics, the girls that do all the twirling, flips, and spinning on those bars "Don't really know what they are called", are pretty amazing.

 

[Alex]

Team GB is doing much better than expected and it's created a renewed interest in the games here in the UK where there have been some records broken here. As it's the last few days it's been god to see results, but i missed most of the track events because of the timings and saw the replays instead.


I am quite proud of the team because after Brexit people think of the UK as a small island of people, but we do invest in athletes and that we have done so well in the medal chart (2nd behind the USA) compared to all the countries with more people to choose from and resources.

 

[kgord]

I have been watching it some because it is on the network that my normal TV shows are on. However, what I really like is diving and I haven't seen any of that. I know it was on one night, but I was bus on the computer and wasn't really paying attention to what was on TV. It is an amazing event though and I like the way that it brings countries together in atheletic contests. SInce there is nothing else like it in the world, I guess every 4 years is good to have it on

 

[sidney]

I have never been interested in sports at all, so it's just natural that I won't even google what is happening to the Olympics nowadays, lol. Besides that, the tv in the living room is broken, so we only now have 1 tv and it's in my parent's bedroom, which I don't have access to. But even if I have tv, I really won't bother to check it out.

 

[KW2496]

I probably won't be watching any of the Olympics. I've never really had any interest in watching them. I feel like this year though, maybe now that I am a bit older, I have found myself a little intrigued just because I hear so many people talking about it. I don't have TV though, and nobody that I know is really into it, so I probably won't end up watching any of it.

 

[It'sJaz]

No, as I'm not really interested in watching sports. I generally don't watch TV programmes anyway. In fact it seems everyone gets to the sports news before I do, and I don't know any of the athletes competing except for a few famous ones.

 

[dysph0ria]

I'm not a fan of watching people run around in circles. But I've watched some boxing matches and some team sports. It's only the team sports and artistic sports that I like. Gymnastics is fascinating. But seriously, I don't get why people are entertained by track and field. It's obsolete. It was originally a method of assessing military strength, so people could decide whether it was a good idea to go to war against a neighboring city state. It no longer serves that purpose, so why watch it?


honestly, I'm more entertained by the doping scandals than the actual sports sometimes.

 

[abbygville]

I've never been much into sports, but I usually take time to watch at least some of the Olympics. The people in events like gymnastics are just so impressive to watch, it's really entertaining and interesting. I also may or may not get a little overly-patriotic cheering for American athletes

 

[brdwlk]

I did watch the Olympics and always will! I'm not the huge sports fan that most of my friends are, but the Olympics are different for me. For me, it's not about individual achievement but about the human will to overcome. And to watch these humans, regardless of ethnicity, age, or place of birth, overcome is amazing!

 

[rldonah]

I haven't really watched the Olympics since I was a kid, and at that time I would mainly watch gymnastics and figure skating. These days, I don't want much TV in general. I have a few shows I watch with my husband, but other than that, TV just doesn't appeal to me so much. I don't watch sports in general.