2016 Olympic chatter

• friendfromlowry

  2016 Olympics start technically Wednesday with a few women's soccer games, then opening ceremony Friday night. Will you watch? Anything/anyone in particular you'll tune in for?
• Ironman92

  

  friendfromlowry;1805335 wrote:2016 Olympics start technically Wednesday with a few women's soccer games, then opening ceremony Friday night. Will you watch? Anything/anyone in particular you'll tune in for?

  I like the track sprints and some swimming races.
  
  I'll watch some of everything.
• Sonofanump

  Hope all of the athletes survive this clusterfuck of an olympiad.
  Track, Swimming, women's beach volleyball.
• HOF on coattails

  

  If America is competing, whatever the sport, I'll watch briefly. Cool article on Ohio State wrestler Kyle Snder was published yesterday.
  
  http://www.ncaa.com/news/wrestling/ncaa-and-olympics/2016-08-01/2016-rio-olympics-ohio-states-kyle-snyder-who-has-won
• Spock

  

  track and field for sure
• iclfan2

  

  Sonofanump;1805339 wrote:Hope all of the athletes survive this clusterfuck of an olympiad.
  Track, Swimming, women's beach volleyball.

  This, and I'l throw in women's gymnastics. I'll probably tune in when bored, but won't "make sure" I watch anything. Hope everyone stays safe there, from reading some articles this Olympics sound terrible.
• Fab4Runner

  

  Gymnastics, track and field and swimming are my faves...but I watch as much as possible. My friends and I have watch parties because we are big nerds.
• cat_lover

  Track and field, swimming and basketball will hold my interest. Gymnastics and volleyball as well.
• Heretic

  

  I'm sure I'll watch some to:
  
  1. Watch NBC pretend there are no problems anywhere so they can focus on "heartwarming" profiles.
  
  2. See if any athletes spontaneously melt (or at least get covered with shit) upon contact with the "water".
  
  When I was young, I loved watching the Olympics. Now, it seems I don't really get into them as much. Most of the sports, to me, come off as more novelties because they're not usually seen during prime viewing hours than stuff I actually enjoy watching. Which leads to them being on as background noise while I'm doing something else, if they're on at all. I mean, some stuff is always interesting (swimming if it's a close race, gymnastics and diving due to flips and shit, the sprints in track), but there's a lot of stuff that I'll look up and see and wonder just what the hell happened to my life that I'm watching this (synch swimming, rowing, long distance track races, NBC-produced features, Bob Costas talking, etc.)
• Spock

  

  A big story for track and field is Clayton Murphy from Tri Village. He is running the 800 meters
• Al Bundy

  The Olympics were much more interesting during the cold war. We don't really have a rival any more.
• sleeper

  

  More interested in the Rio drama than the actual games. I usually would watch hoops but just don't care because no one is coming close to beating us and there is no Lebron/Kobe to watch.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  sleeper;1805366 wrote:More interested in the Rio drama than the actual games. I usually would watch hoops but just don't care because no one is coming close to beating us and there is no Lebron/Kobe to watch.

  Kyrie and Melo will be fun to watch. Also interested in watching this year bc we have 2 legit big man in DeAndre Jordan and Cousins.
• Con_Alma

  Spock;1805361 wrote:A big story for track and field is Clayton Murphy from Tri Village. He is running the 800 meters

  ...and Akron University.
• Spock

  

  saw where the sailors are all having massive infections from the water
• Heretic

  

  Spock;1805393 wrote:saw where the sailors are all having massive infections from the water

  RE: Point #2 from my post.
  
  IT'S HAPPENING!!!!
• friendfromlowry

  I'm interested in some of the legends who are retiring after this like Phelps and Bolt. I think Bolt still wins the 100m and 200m -- not sure if Phelps can still dominate, though.
• Gardens35

  Read earlier that Baseball and Softball return in 2020.
• like_that

  

  Gardens35;1805656 wrote:Read earlier that Baseball and Softball return in 2020.

  Along with karate, skateboarding, and rock climbing. Is this temporary or a permanent addition? It seems odd that they were close to taking out wrestling, but now are adding 5 sports.
• Heretic

  

  like_that;1805668 wrote:Along with karate, skateboarding, and rock climbing. Is this temporary or a permanent addition? It seems odd that they were close to taking out wrestling, but now are adding 5 sports.

  Well, who needs an all-time original sport when you can have kids on boards and hipsters climbing rocks!
• GOONx19

  

  Just happened to have Japan Nigeria soccer on in the background and each team scored 2 goals in a span of 7 minutes lol
• friendfromlowry

  I watched Brazil and South Africa play to a 0-0 tie earlier despite South Africa playing the last 25ish minutes with ten guys. I also didn't realize the American men's team didn't even qualify??
• superman

  I'll watch track and Rugby. Maybe some basketball
• bases_loaded

  

  The golf course should be like real life putt-putt with all the animals that call that place home.
• vball10set

  bases_loaded;1805816 wrote:The golf course should be like real life putt-putt with all the animals that call that place home.

  lol..reps