Is anyone here watching the Olympics this year? Do you have a favorite event, or a favorite athlete?
I love gymnastics - I never miss it!
I love gymnastics - I never miss it!
Olympic schedule - are you watching?
Gymnastics! I am so excited for our girls this year. And our guys too - I can't wait to see them on the floor! I'm sad this is Jordan Jovtchev's last Olympics; I hope he does well. I want to see Fabi do well in the AA too; kid deserves it. And of course, Jonathan Horton (I do hope he makes it... although Danell Leyva and John Orozco...). I'm very interested to see Kohei Uchimura!
I LOVE ALY RAISMAN and I really want to see how Gabby Douglas performs.
I'll also be watching the swimming, but gymnastics is where my heart lies!
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HHHHECK YEAH! hahaha I LOOOVE the olympics! Its like one space in time when countries actually come together in peace, honor and pride. Its peaceful rivalry! its so beautiful! I love hearing all of the athletes stories and how they got to wear they are now. I love seeing everyone cheer each other on, seeing the tears and joy on ppls faces when they win after aaall of their hard work to reach that point. its so heart touching! ... AS for which events.. All of them! ha ha :D They are all so great! :D
I'll certainly be watching the badminton - especially the mixed doubles with Chris Adcock & Imogen Bankier (finalists in the last World Champs, also held in London), and the very lovely Reiko Shiota.
The women's gymnastics is good too, and I can probably spare 10 seconds to watch the men's 100m.
To be honest though, I much prefer the Winter Olympics.
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Last Olympics the only thing I was really into was the 100m sprint, men's and women's. The rest is really about athletics and not entertainment. That said the gymnastics is good, I agree with you there. Weightlighting, swimming, boring.
10m diving's good actually.
And I find the opening ceremonies of these things insufferably lame.
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Yup saw the opening ceremony, all 3 and a 1/2 hours of it. It was kind of boring but once mr Bean was shown it got better. I hope to see track and see Usain Bolt defend his title, swimming same with Michael Phelps and diving Alexandre Despatie after his accident I wanna see how he'll do! I'll probably watch whatever is on though it's a bit annoying that London is 6 hours ahead but I'll most likely watch when men are either shirtless, good lookin, fantastic athletes or all of the above. GO TEAM CANADA
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I LOVE the olympics. Words cannot describe how passionate I am for the olympics. The reason is because people have been training their WHOLE LIVES for their sport. They are the best of the best. I always allllllllways ALWAYS wanted to be an olympian.
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Man I'm going to watch everything! For some reason I like to watch any sport at all as long as it's some kind of world/European championship or Olympics. It's all exciting, I can't wait! I'm glad I'm on holiday :)
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YES! All I have been talking about for the last two months are the olympics! The only sport I follow closely is swimming and I will be glued to nbc's live online streaming for every second of it! My 5 favorite swimmers are ryan locte, missy franklin, nathan adrian, conor dwyer, and elizabeth biesel. Go USA! My most anticipated race is the 400 IM with locte and phelps. My swim team is having a party to watch that race! All ofus are cheering for locte!
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Hi there. I watch everything I can. I don't know why because I've never done this but the event I look forward to the most is Diving. I think I just love looking at the water lol. I still like and watch everything. Watched basketball, volleyball, swimming, boxing, soccer, fencing and even handball today lol. I don't make plans to go anywhere during the olympics.
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Yes! Well, I'm not really into sport, but I love watching the opening and closing ceremonies. Gymnastics is interesting to watch. I'll probably just watch the recaps on the news mostly though.
Oooooh with the exception of running. You can't not watch Usain Bolt! -
Yes I'll be watching! :D
I watch it every four years for as long as I can remember
I love watching basketball, gymnastics,volleyball, track and field, and swimming. my favorite athletes are usain bolt (he's so entertaining to watch lol), shawn johnson (but she retired) and michael phelps...there's lots more, but like those are my favs. - 641 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.
Gymnastics :)
Weight Lifting
Swimming sometimes
The equestrian stuff (mom loves it)
Not really a favorite athlete just Go Team USA ^_^
though if I see an athlete that looks to be trying really hard I'll go with them South Korea for womens weight lifting! ^_^ Go Jang Mi-Ran -
I've always watched. The Olympics I watched first was the 1996 Atlanta games and I couldn't really stop watching them. The only gap is Sydney 2000, in my home city only because of school.
They are special since they come on only once every 4 years (the Summer games, anyways). I'm not as passionate about the Winter Games, but I do watch.
Since I'm a school teacher and have the summers off, I'll definitely watch. -
I'll watch swimming, track and field, tennis and basketball for the most part. Really excited that the tennis is at Wimbledon this time. Roger Federer is my all time favorite athlete and I am pulling for him to win the gold after winning Wimbledon.
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We love both gymnastics and swimming in my house. We watch other events as well, but those are the favorites. I'm not sure how much of the opening ceremony we'll watch. I'm not sure what all will be on it.
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I'm not a big fan of what the Olympics are turning in to. All anyone cares about is how many medals are won, just look at the theme song the Olympic Committee chose.
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I'm Jamaican, we are very proud of our athletes especially in track and fields. Go team Jamaica!
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I hereby warning against watching on olympics games. It`s scientifically proved that olympics games causing to cancer, heartattack and worse, dangerous impotence. All parents, (olso our government) must act as soon as possible, to protect our young offspring with supply them with quantity of canabis, before any of bad sports associations destroy more child / teenages life.
May God protect all young offspring, from the bad sports evil. -
I love handball... I'm french and don't miss our team playing...like right now! Go Experts! ;)
And athletism!coming soon...but generally speaking, I watch olympic games! -
Wanna see Katie Taylor bringing home the women's boxing gold medal for Ireland. She'll be the first woman to ever win an olympic gold medal hopefully... GO KATIE!
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Can't wait!
I'll be watching as much of the gymastics as I can and I'm going up to London to see the women's trampolining (as a trampolinist and coach myself, I can't wait to see Kat Driscoll live!) -
i try to catch it but a always miss it...im really into basketball but I want to see them all. Where do I ..go to see the schedule? or which TV station does it play on?..i have dish btw
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Oh yes, I have to, My favorite event is track and field and I am routing for my home country. I also like seeing gymnastic, diving, and swimming.
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Mostly swimming, gymnastics and basketball! My favorite athlete HAS to be Michael Phelps! Such a God of Swimming!
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