summer olympics

[Latanya]

with the olympics starting next week what is your favorite sport to watch?

[Carolynn]

Your poll lacks a "none of the above".

Actually, I do not care for the Olympics and its overblown hype. But then I do not care for most sports, so that should not be surprising. Too many Jocks (of all genders) in sports, and talking heads to tell you what you should think and see. Blech!!

Carolynn

[DonnaT]

As a former athlete, I'm mostly interested in the swimming and track. I was the fastest swimmer and runner where I grew up.

I like the soccer as well, just wish they could get the flopping (cheating) out of the sport.

I was almost chosen to train for the pentathlon, but had already joined the army. And I've never ridden a horse.

[Paula G]

As a Londoner I pre-registered for tickets, when it came to applying for specific tickets we couldn't think of any events that we wanted to go to, so I would want a none of the above as well. It's not that I don't like sport, it's just that the sports I follow (Cricket, Rugby, and Motorsport) aren't in the Olympics. I also have another little beef with LOCOG http://paula-paulasplace.blogspot.co.uk ... cians.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Anthony Simon]

I'm not really an olympics person, but you do get drawn in. So I voted for cycling (I cycle) and track and field (the blue ribands of olympics). But I'm afraid my Darth Vader side is definitely to the fore when it comes to this particular event. Like the Olympic sport I find myself particularly inspired by just at the moment is watching the various ways the people involved in the organisation of it can make idiots of themselves.

A good early showing is being made by the Hotel industry which marked up the prices of London hotel rooms ca 300% so that people booked into hotels in Paris. Now they've got too many rooms on their hands and not enough time to let them. Also showing is the security company for the games who confessed just recently they can't train enough personel so that the army has to be drafted in to help.

[Melinda Welsh]

I don't watch any sport much , I'd sooner be out there doing it myself . The sailing is being done locally so might get to see a few yachts . other than that I would watch the archery to pick up a few tips.

[Latanya]

i like track and field the most
basketball is pretty much a forgone conclusion
and gymnastics like watching the perfection of it

[Cassandra Lynn]

I picked gymnastics, canoing/kayaking, archery, water sports and cycling (even tho it's one of the dirtiest (doping) sports out there), but i also enjoy equestrian, shooting (as a lifelong gun nut and hunter, i must), and tennis (the one and only h.s. sport i was good at).

Basketball Anya?.........sorry sis, but yechhh, it ceased being a true olympic sport when the n.b.a. was brought in.

Will i really bother to watch much of it? hardly.

[Anna]

Anya, I used to do athletics, 880, mile and cross country, and a lot of cycling, but with my advancing years, I haven't done any for few (well, a lot actually) years, although I do hop on a bike occasionally when I get shamed into it by the grandkids!

As to the olympics, I am a bit disappointed that it has turned into such a commercialised event. We had a shop in our area displayed the olympic symbol in the window, and they were threatened with prosecution unless they took it down!

It seems to be run by the likes of CocaCola etc these days!

So, none of the above for me. I think olympic-fatigue may be setting in over here!

Anna x

[Carol Esme]

Try slalom kayak. Very little competition for tickets and you are close to the action. In Sydney 2000 it reminded me of desperate efforts years before to drown myself doing similar stuff in Scotland on the Clyde and the Tay.

[Karin]

Track and field for me, I too used to do the 800m, 1500m and cross country Anna i also picked the gymnastics of course .

I totally love the Olympics, but yes this one is tarnished considerably by the 'Coca Colas' of this world, they've even dictated who can carry the torch!! Let me see...it's the UK Olympics, let's make foreign stars carry the torch in place of the locals?!....very very very uncool IMO. It's a shame they're allowed to trash it like this. Not fair on anyone...

Maybe I should revive my plan to storm the opening ceremony in some pink workbooks!?

[Paula G]

Sorry to be a pedant, but it's the London Olympics that why we are going to be paying for it on our Council Tax for the next five years. I used to do a bit of track and field, except that it was all field, shot put and hammer! still don't particularly want to go and watch it though.

[Latanya]

just enjoy the olympics despite all its issues
the potential business it creates far out-ways the outlay
if u want to b**ch american uniforms (ugly) made in China!

[Cassandra Lynn]

Television and money has ruined most everything that had special meaning, what little big time sports i still watch in my country, i do so with the remote in hand so i can either mute the idiocy or turn the channel.
Which hardly ever works, cause there is usually something just as idiotic either direction on the dial.

I think one of the reasons i tend towards the little watched events is simply cause it isn't as hyped up.

[Anna]

Well said Cass. You echo my thoughts!