So, is anyone intending to watch any of the Olympics?

I'll usually watch the medal rounds in swimming and track and will watch women's gymnastics (because my wife makes me and not because I'm a dirty old man.) I'll also watch women's beach volleyball because I am a dirty old man. Every now and then I'll also watch some of the less popular sports like judo, fencing, taekwondo, etc.

I, for one, am really hoping that Team USA can return to its winning ways in men's basketball after a horrendous showing in the 2004 Olympics and am planning on watching every game I can. I'm honestly really excited to watch the first game on Sunday as we take on China and am hoping they crush China like Madhammer wants Obama to crush McCain.

EDIT: Let's keep Human Rights violations and whether or not the Olympics should even be in China out of this and instead focus on what the Olympics is all about...Team USA kicking the crap out of the rest of the world!

I think the IOC should never have picked Beijing... not to open a can of worms or anything

I agree with this. However, nothing is going to change the fact that in 2 days the Olympics are being held in Beijing.

YAWN.

Not interested this year due to it being in China. I think it's going to prove to be one of the worst. China, for instance, is still showing it's political hate.

...okay? not sure what the point is

I don't care about the Olympics anyway, so that's all I have to contribute.

I'm not sure I've ever watched any Olympic sport except for that one time John Candy and Doug E. Doug went bobsledding.

Feel the rhythm
Feel the rhyme
Get on up
It's bobsled time!

Peace be the journey.

I just thought it would be nice for people who do or don't care about the Olympics to be able to talk about fencing and water polo without it turning in to a "China is SO bad on Human Rights violations..." "How bad is it?" ment.

Hey, if no one at TFans is planning on watching Mankreet Poonanner of Upper Lower Carbombya get his spleen handed to him on a platter in Judo, that's fine, too.

I watched some of the USA basketball team's games in '04, specifically the USA/Argentina match-up, and then only to check out my hometown Spurs' Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan go at each other. Duncan never stood a chance in international play.

I really have no desire to watch the Olympics, and have no strong feelings of nationality anymore, sorry.

I do find the winter Olympics entertaining, though.


And BTW there are Canadians, UKers, Austrailians, and many more folk from different countries on this board that may not want to see USA win, ST53.

I know, just stirring the pot is all. I mean, the US has no hope in table tennis and I was just waiting for some Chinese guy to come on here and go "Just wait, buddy."

The best thing about the Olympics is the BBC promotional 'Journey to the West' animation.

@Goki, you'll love it if you haven't already seen it.

BBC Monkey

Canada got screwed over when they picked Beijing over Toronto....just sayin'
But we did get the 2010 winter games, so it's all good.

As for the games themselves, Go Canada and cousins!


Prepare for a world of hurt USA!

Whenever I have to watch the Olympics for one reason or another, I like figuring out the total medal counts for each country per capita. That way the US and China always look sh!t, and countries like East Timor come out as champions of the Universe.


GO EAST TIMOR!

East Timor SUCKS

Hey! My mom's from East Timor!

Yeah, see? Bewbs was right.

bonk slurp

What.
The.
Hell?

ROFFLE PUKE

Not if I can help it.

Yeah it's pretty much something my wife does.

What time is the opening going to air? I'm guessing it pre-recorded if they air at night tonight (Pacific USA). Aren't most of the events prerecorded? I don't remember I haven't watched the olympics since.... 96?

I believe they are going to show the opening ceremonies on NBC tonight at 8pm EST.

Opening ceremonies =

In the words of Bob Costas, just go ahead and retire the trophy.

The opening ceremonies were awesome. And LOL @ Sarkozy & Bush's presences there.

Go Russia! Go China!

I saw some of it at a pub tonight...meh.

China's in the same time zone as the west coast, which only 2 hours behind Sydney (eastern time) - so I've had the TV on with the game coverage on constantly whenever I'm home.

Go Malawi!

Looks like a crappy ripoff of Buddhist Monkey.

That monkey's name is Son Gokuu. Thanks Octavian.

Fixed

So, did anyone see the US throat punch those uppity French in the 4x100 freestyle yesterday? It was an amazing race, with five of the eight teams finishing ahead of the existing world record mark

Did anyone watch the team handball game between Venezuela and Russia? Seriously, they're going to get rid of baseball and softball but they're going to keep handball?

Baseball is lame.

That may be, but watch a game of handball and tell me it is not lamer than baseball.

NOTE: Olympic handball is not the same thing as "like racquetball only no racquet" handball, which I think is pretty cool.

I saw ten minutes of water polo today while at a restaurant. That's all the Olympics I've seen.

Water Polo must be hard, what with the not touching the bottom and all.

God help me, I watched men's gymnastics last night.

Uh oh...is Mr. T gonna have to shoot you with his Snickers gun?

More crap China faked.

Women's Volleyball (beach or indoor, doesn't matter) is the greatest thing ever.


That is all.

lol, so much fail, so little time

We actually watched a bunch of the Olympics last night. Pole-vaulting is awesome, and not just an unclever euphenism.

.....so you *didn't* really watch the Olympics?

>_<

You think with a country of 1.5 billion people they could find a cute girl who could sing and 16+ year olds who could do gymnastics.

And some fireworks!!! Hello it's friggin China!!

Though this is my favorite part

to Olympic Fail

I present to you, Great Moments in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Some chicks after winning a Beach Volleyball game.

If only it were Jello Volleyball.

*petitions the IOC*