I'm surprised that no one started a topic where we could discuss all the Olympic-relevant events in yet (unless everyone decided not to talk about the Olympics this time around due to the controversies surrounding them...)

So anyway, today (or pretty much yesterday, Chinese time) the opening ceremony took place. Pretty awesome. Probably the best opening I can remember. A great performance and synchronization of tai chi, a giant globe with screens on its surface, and Sarah Brightman <3. What's not to like? The music was good too.

I'm excited, but too bad I'm working mostly days so I'll probably end up watching re-runs of events at night (but I hate how they always seem to spoil them on tv.. stupid CBC). At least I don't have to watch on NBC... man, they're even worse.

i saw this on tv just now on nbv and i really fucking hate the commentators. like as parade of nations goes on they're like "OH YEAH THIS COUNTRY PROBABLY WON'T WIN ANY MEDALS AT ALL" and i'm thinking "fuck you man i'm rooting for the underdog Benin will win ALL THE MEDALS EVER you assfucks"

so yeah i'm rooting for non-mainstream countries. if that makes sense. fuck commentator opinions.

actually i don't care that much about olympics but my parents make a big deal about it because they're chinese and the olympics are in china this year

edit: i don't actually hate the commentators that much. i just hate how nobody roots for the underdogs

"fuck you man i'm rooting for the underdog Benin will win ALL THE MEDALS EVER you assfucks"

I don't care about the olympics and I never did. I never will either. Fuck olympics.

The opening was so spectacular, all that money spent on an opening ceremony its so ridiculous haha.

It's China man. Nothing's ridiculous in China.


Also, I'm NOT SURPRISED about GW's negligence. It is to be expected, and that's just such a poor quality to me.

oh man when the dude ran suspended from a wire along the inside wall of the stadium and lit the bottom of that thirty foot high torch it was pretty astounding

i must be the only person in the world who couldn't care less about the olympics

i must be the only person in the world who couldn't care less about the olympics

not quite! the olympics has taken a back seat because THE FOOTBALL SEASON HAS BEGUN YESSS

I don't know what came over me, but I sort of woke up at 6am and have finally stopped watching (3:37pm).

I was working when this was happening, but when I got home (after stopping at the local Marti Gras festival for some live Blues) there was some China guy in a suit talking about how the olympics are great, thanks for being here--blahblahblah for so long. Eventually just watched some cartoons.

Personally, I love following the olympics, but only for the games. I don't give a shout about how much money a country will spend to impress the world. I just want to watch the athletes at their finest doing what they've trained so long to do.

Also, I heard some co-workers talking about the athletes entering the stadium. He was saying China had like 200 contestants, and then after that some small country had like 2. Is that accurate?

i must be the only person in the world who couldn't care less about the olympics

i'm not interested either. i'm sure the opening ceremonies would be pretty impressive, but i'm not going to go out to my way to watch it and i don't care about countries competing against each other. i don't like that they are being held in china either, so watching the whole thing would taste sour and false to me.

so try this on for size chumps:

fuck the olympics!

I'm pissed because Wushu is not being televised...

Just watched the women's cycling road race. What a finish and a gold for GBR! (also holy shit the Chinese women's quad rowers were fucking phenomenal in last heat. NO ROWING IS A BRITISH DOMINION STOP IT)

Ive just been watching the Swimming an shit.. That guy Phelps beat the world record in his first swim(He said he'd win 8 gold medals!?)also the Aussie chick beat the world record as well. Also the gymnastic guys man. Fuck you have to be ripped as for that shit.. They were like break dancing in mid air haha.

Also New Zealand have done pretty well in the rowing which is cool. Sucks were getting our ass handed to us by Brazil right now.. In Soccer that is.

The men's final was also brilliant, with Choi Minho winning by an ippon.

Yeah, that was a pretty epic ending. It just came from nowhere.

Also with Phelps I was pretty confused since he has 6 gold medals already, I thought he was just trying to get to 8. But apparantly he wants to get 8 in this games alone? I'm not sure if he can do it, but we'll see.

I hope Australia will win in a sport that we usually don't instead of getting a large part of our medals from swimming (although winning anything is pretty cool).

I'm going to watch Australia vs Croatia in the basketball tonight as that's the olympic sport I'm most interested in but no doubt we'll get knocked out first round. At least I've got NZ for a back up!

We only have one channel broadcasting the Olympics here but it's pretty much 24/7. How is it done where you are?