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« on: August 09, 2021, 03:37:03 pm »

I watched more Olympics this time around than I have in a while.  I had some trouble accessing what I wanted, but overall, I've enjoyed it.

I don't really like that Olympics is like this 4 hour TV block that's sorta undefined.  I'd rather it be specific programs at specific times, like watching other kinds of sports.  I wanted to watch skateboarding and it wasn't immediately apparent when or what channel it would be on.  It's also harder because sometimes the stuff already happened, so looking online for the answers just spoils the result.
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« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2021, 07:28:16 pm »

I watched more Olympics this time around than I have in a while.  I had some trouble accessing what I wanted, but overall, I've enjoyed it.

I don't really like that Olympics is like this 4 hour TV block that's sorta undefined.  I'd rather it be specific programs at specific times, like watching other kinds of sports.  I wanted to watch skateboarding and it wasn't immediately apparent when or what channel it would be on.  It's also harder because sometimes the stuff already happened, so looking online for the answers just spoils the result.
You seem to be in the minority. The ratings are down significantly and hit new lows. This was to be expected with the inclusion of politics, social opinions, and political agendas. It will only get worse until the companies realize that they're selling a product and not a social justice experiment.
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« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2021, 07:34:15 pm »

You seem to be in the minority. The ratings are down significantly and hit new lows. This was to be expected with the inclusion of politics, social opinions, and political agendas. It will only get worse until the companies realize that they're selling a product and not a social justice experiment.

I am sure I'm in the minority, but I think your reasons are likely incorrect about why numbers are down.  The Olympics has always been about politics, going back to forever.

It's because people aren't watching TV anymore.  Kids watch YouTube and Twitch.  My kids literally don't even know how to turn on regular TV.  It's just a dying format.  This is same for all network live TV.  All these sports, awards shows, parades -- it's not political.
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« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2021, 08:01:25 am »

I watched a lot of the Olympics this year, and really enjoyed it.  I didn't pay attention to who won online, and we'd have a TV in the office replaying stuff from the night before, or I'd just watch it at night with my wife.
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« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2021, 08:44:17 am »


This might be the least I have ever watched the Olympics in my life. I can't really say why, but the Olympic interest just wasn't there for me this year.

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« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2021, 10:07:21 am »

For me, the Olympics peaked with the Miracle On Ice and there was nowhere to go but down from there.    Cheesy
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« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2021, 11:20:40 am »

There are a few things in recent memory:

- The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was pretty incredible.  It's just old-school to throw tens of thousands of people at something in a display of force.  Also, all that swimming stuff and the specially built cube.  ...all that was cool.

- I don't remember even which Olympics it was, but one dude lit the torch with a flaming arrow and it remains one of the baddest-ass things I've ever seen.

- This year, this performance was really humorous, informative, creative and strangely uniquely Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ9OyYA-bAM
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« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2021, 11:28:01 am »

I just know about the horse that made the lady cry when he wouldn't jump for her and basically ruined her dreams.
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« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2021, 11:42:36 am »

I just know about the horse that made the lady cry when he wouldn't jump for her and basically ruined her dreams.

This is, I'm sure, a shitty joke that's been said over and over, and I'm jesting, but only kinda, but "shouldn't the horse get the medal"?

Those are some of the few events that I just legitimately do not understand how it's a thing in the Olympics.
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« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2021, 12:34:53 pm »

This is, I'm sure, a shitty joke that's been said over and over, and I'm jesting, but only kinda, but "shouldn't the horse get the medal"?

Those are some of the few events that I just legitimately do not understand how it's a thing in the Olympics.

It shouldn't be. Everything about the Olympics is up to the individual, except this event. The Horse literally crushed her Olympic dreams just by being stubborn, it just boggles my mind. I got some great memes out of it but that's still devastating to the person.
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« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2021, 12:39:33 pm »

If I'm just attempting to be fair and not stubborn, I guess you can say the same thing about some who rides a motorcycle and the machine craps out.  I don't think those are the same, but I'm having trouble logically explaining why.
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« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2021, 12:41:05 pm »

I'm not sure that Curling in the Winter Olympics should be considered a sport since it is essentially shuffleboard on ice.  But I do enjoy the Scandanavian Women's Teams bending over to do whatever it is called that they do in Curling. 
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« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2021, 12:42:46 pm »


Those are some of the few events that I just legitimately do not understand how it's a thing in the Olympics.

Actually it belongs in the Olympics.  The events that don't belong are soccer, tennis and the marathon.  A gold medal should be the pinnacle of the sport.  That is not true for soccer - world cup.  Tennis - Wimbledon, marathon - multiple Boston, New York, London Berlin and many others are more prestigious.
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« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2021, 12:45:48 pm »

Actually it belongs in the Olympics.  The events that don't belong are soccer, tennis and the marathon.  A gold medal should be the pinnacle of the sport.  That is not true for soccer - world cup.  Tennis - Wimbledon, marathon - multiple Boston, New York, London Berlin and many others are more prestigious.
so boxing and basketball too then?
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« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2021, 12:51:00 pm »

so boxing and basketball too then?

Boxing yes.

Basketball no.  NBA is not an international tournament, it is a national one.
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