Olympics 2008

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Yeah! I love watching the Olympics, as long as they show events, not hyped backstories.

[Capt Jack]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Yeah! I love watching the Olympics, as long as they show events, not hyped backstories.

Im with ya here. show me the competitions, not a zillion hours of back story followed by 5 min of event highlites that YOU deem watchable

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Yeah! I love watching the Olympics, as long as they show events, not hyped backstories.

Then you should write the network, because they produce that sh*t for you broads.

I'm a bit of an Olympics curmudgeon. If the opening ceremonies were limited to the parade of athletes and the release of doves, I'd be a happy man. I suppose this year it will be interesting to see if the doves fall back to earth gasping.

I would also favor the elimination of all Olympic summer Olympic sports that are not tests of pure athleticism (running, walking, jumping, throwing, gymnastics, swimming, women's beach volleyball) or somehow related to killing people (boxing, wrestling, shooting, fencing, archery, women's beach volleyball).

While I basically enjoy it, I have a hard time caring when, as with the Sydney Olympics, we in America knew who won everything about a week before the events were aired.

[Moonliner]

Some interesting tidbits:

The order for the parade of nations is set by the number of strokes in the first character of the countries name in Chinese. The United States comes in 140th out of 205. Australia and Zambia (plus of course China) bring up the rear.

Time wise Beijing is 12:00 hours ahead of eastern time. (Which makes it easy for me to keep track of things....)

NBC has managed to get some finials moved early/late so they can be shown live.

The next summer games will be the 2012 XXX Games in London.