Poll: Poll: The Olympics. How much of it will you watch?
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Probably some of it. I used to detest watching sports, not so much nowadays. Downhill skiing is pretty cool to watch, so is snowboarding. Maybe hockey as well, that can be pretty brutal.
You won't see me going out of my way to watch it though, I'll pick something up when I see it but that's all as I can usually do cooler things with my TV (BioShock 2). And I won't be cheering for any of my country's athletes either, I'll watch it for the actual games.
You won't see me going out of my way to watch it though, I'll pick something up when I see it but that's all as I can usually do cooler things with my TV (BioShock 2). And I won't be cheering for any of my country's athletes either, I'll watch it for the actual games.
I live in Vancouver, and with all of the Olympics bullshit they've already forced down our throats I'll be lucky if I don't vomit every time I see the rings from now on.
I won't be watching the Olympics at all, and I'm sincerely hoping my sister will be far too busy to pull her usual obsessive "tape every single event and then spend months watching them all" routine this year. It seriously gets old.
I like to watch the opening ceremonies, and usually try to catch the snowboarding & alpine skiing events...
I'll be watching none of it, myself. All over-paid 'athletes' paid to do what amounts to a hobby or exercise. Plus you get all the inevitable guff with doping and cheating allegations - it's the mainstream equivalent of Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer mode on X-box Live to me.
Yeah... Except actual Olympic athletes get paid next to nothing for what they do, and do in fact need to have normal jobs. They can maybe do a Cheerios commercial for an easy paycheck but that's about all they get out of it. Some countries offer cash prizes, but the US gave out $25,000 as the maximum prize to gold medalists, which isn't a heck of a lot considering the time the athletes put into it. Why do you think there are so many "Support Olympic Athletes" foundations? It's because they get paid bugger all for what they do.Gunner 51 said:
I'll care about the Olympics when they put football in it, otherwise I just don't care about any of the spots they have on
Probably the opening and closing ceremonies as well as a few events that I might happen to catch.
I didn't know all that. I just assumed that by donning all expensive kit they get a lot of money from what they did. I had always assumed they got paid in the same way that football ( or soccer) players did - via a professional body and sponsorship deals.ArmsAkimbo said:
Thanks for telling me all this, I've learnt something there.
I can't wait myself, I love watching the events, the only things stopping me are school and work. I'm booking off the day of the Gold Medal Hockey game, for "Family Reasons" just so I can watch it. Hopefully the Canadian team will be there too