Who's excited about the Olympics?

I really like being able to tune to many channels and see all the events; I really enjoy leaving the TV on when I go to bed, wake up, and see what's going on...

I love watching the Olympics, these athletes dedicate themselves full time to very rigorous training allowing us to view the best of the best.

I watch maybe skiing, because of our athletes, but biggest event on 2010 for me is Soccer WC in South-Africa

Winter Olympics ROCKS!! I love high speed...sking, skating, snow boards, bob sleds, the whole thing! Well OK everything but curling!! Summer olympics sucks in my opinion and I don't even watch.

. . . curling is an excellent drinking sport!!!! Single malt and a large blob of stone on a sheet of ice . . . . does it get any better than that???

Anyways, I'll watch not only for the events, but because I'm from Squamish. Small costal town 30-40 miles from Whistler. We thumbed up there to ski every week-end for years. Gorgeous place . . .

randyswagon wrote:

. . . curling is an excellent drinking sport!!!! Single malt and a large blob of stone on a sheet of ice . . . . does it get any better than that???

Anyways, I'll watch not only for the events, but because I'm from Squamish. Small costal town 30-40 miles from Whistler. We thumbed up there to ski every week-end for years. Gorgeous place . . .

Wait a minute here! There's an event that involves malted beverages and getting stoned on the ice???? DUDE! I'VE BEEN IN TRAINING FOR THIS ONE FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS!!!! But seriously, I love the Winter Olympics. Quite a few more X-TREME EVENTS than there was when I was a youngun!

bodypeersur1 wrote:

randyswagon wrote:

. . . curling is an excellent drinking sport!!!! Single malt and a large blob of stone on a sheet of ice . . . . does it get any better than that???

Anyways, I'll watch not only for the events, but because I'm from Squamish. Small costal town 30-40 miles from Whistler. We thumbed up there to ski every week-end for years. Gorgeous place . . .

Wait a minute here! There's an event that involves malted beverages and getting stoned on the ice???? DUDE! I'VE BEEN IN TRAINING FOR THIS ONE FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS!!!! But seriously, I love the Winter Olympics. Quite a few more X-TREME EVENTS than there was when I was a youngun!

LMAO DUFF!

Actually I get a kick out of watching curling too!

There's lots of excitement here in Vancouver. Mixed emotions for me. My tax dollars are paying for this party and I think the people of Vancouver have been sold a "bill of goods" on this one. The costs are horrendous. Then tickets hard to get for locals, too many given away to politicians and their friends, others sold elsewhere. Most local residents couldn't see any of the games live if they wanted to. Am I bitter? A bit. But I'll make the best of it and watch on TV.

This morning on the "Today" show, it looked like tickets sold easily, so smoothly most events are sold out.
(more like given out, eh?)

SynMike wrote:

There's lots of excitement here in Vancouver. Mixed emotions for me. My tax dollars are paying for this party and I think the people of Vancouver have been sold a "bill of goods" on this one. The costs are horrendous. Then tickets hard to get for locals, too many given away to politicians and their friends, others sold elsewhere. Most local residents couldn't see any of the games live if they wanted to. Am I bitter? A bit. But I'll make the best of it and watch on TV.

Sounds just like Atlanta in '96.

Oh, and the only Winter Sport I truly enjoy watching is Curling - now there's a sport that has it all!

I like the Olympics too ! The Winter Games are actually my favorite
because I happen to like snow and ice ! Hockey will be VERY interesting
as will ALL of the events for that matter. From louge, and skiing, to speed
skating, snow boarding and even curling ! It should be cool to watch !

Call me biased...but I would MUCH rather watch the winter X-Games...the events are totally cool and a lot more exciting IMO

Mark, does your TV even have NBC?

porschefan wrote:

Mark, does your TV even have NBC?

Nope...just get ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News, ESPNU, ESPN De Portes, ESPN Sur, ABC, ABC Family and Disney Channel

Oh yeah...I use PPV too...

BTW...what the hell is a NBC

andrema wrote:

porschefan wrote:

Mark, does your TV even have NBC?

Nope...just get ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN News, ESPNU, ESPN De Portes, ESPN Sur, ABC, ABC Family and Disney Channel

Oh yeah...I use PPV too...

BTW...what the hell is a NBC

That's about the same number of channels we had when I was a kid, and it was enough.

Who's excited about the Olympics?

Omega

can't wait, always watch them summer and winter. I'll be keeping an eye out for the womens luge this year.

barnbuilder1 wrote:

can't wait, always watch them summer and winter. I'll be keeping an eye out for the womens luge this year.

I saw that video too!