Do you care about the Olympic games?

[Red Cat]

The Olympics are starting. Are you going to watch them at all? Are you rooting for any athletes? Do you think they will be a disaster? I'll occasionally watch them when I'm bored, but I'm not really that interested. The opening ceremonies usually look really good, but they are an absolutely gigantic waste of money.

 

[N e s s]

Sports are lame, you should eat ice cream and play video games instead

 

[moonbunny]

Only when it's Canada vs. Russia or Canada vs. the USA for hockey.

 

[-Apples-]

Normally, I do not care about the olympics since I have no interest into watching sports, but I should care about this year's olympics as it's going to be a really bad olympics this year. Remember the murder of some football referee in 2013 and how it questioned safety concerns for the 2016 olympics? Let's put that and the Zika virus issues to the side. Without them, it's still going to be trouble. Rio is a very dangerous city. Crime rates are very high. And due to the upcoming olympics, they had to cut spending on security. I don't know how safe it would be this year. And have I forgot to mention, the high pollution in the waters? The swimming events are supposed to take place there, but they haven't cleaned it up. Pollution, crime, and lack of preparation is going to make this olympics the worst one in a long time. I'm already opposed to the olympics because of the murder case I mentioned earlier, but I know it's gonna get worse.

 

[Kip]

There should be a middle option. I'm in between.

 

[Xara]

Sports are lame, you should eat ice cream and play video games instead

Agreed.


I personally don't care about the Olympics, or sports at all. My family does, but I don't. another thing they pick at me for *sighs*

 

[riummi]

ahem I care now
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[Xara]

ahem I care now
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lmao

 

[Ichigo.]

i'm not sure "care" is the right word, but i enjoyed the summer olympics in 2012 so i'll probably watch them again in a couple days.

 

[Mega_Cabbage]

I like watching, but I honestly don't care who wins.

 

[amanda1983]

I'll enjoy the Olympics for the good aspects (international goodwill and camaraderie, heartwarming moments, healthy competitiveness, snippets of history and backstory, "highlight packages" showcasing amazing feats, and "behind the scenes" pieces as that's always fascinating to me). As always, I'll ignore or disregard the things I don't care for (unsportsmanlike behaviour of any kind, cheating, all sports I don't care for (..so .. most of them..), segments whining about ___ and ___ in the host city, and any and all displays of nationalistic "pride" at the expense of equally hardworking individuals/teams).

I always watch at least some gymnastics as that is just so beautiful to see. I try to catch some field hockey as I used to play and loved it, as well as swimming especially diving events.

As I'm not working this year, this marks the first Olympics or Commonwealth Games I've "missed" as an educator in about 10 years. That will be hard for me as these events are something the children usually love to reinact and we support that interest by running our own mini Olympics complete with opening and closing ceremonies. Ah well. Next time!

 

[DarkDesertFox]

It's the only sports event I'll watch really. It has a more interesting choice of events to watch.

 

[Mink777]

I sometimes watch it, but I like the Winter ones more than the Summer ones

 

[zoetrope]

I've been obsessed with them since I was a kid. The Rio ones are gonna be a disaster though.

 

[brownboy102]

I love the Olympics, since all these amazing athletes are all together, but I'd expect Rio's not to go too well. Athletes are already complaining about safety, security, home quality and the like. I heard an athlete from New Zealand got kidnapped, and was threatened to be killed if he didn't withdraw all his money.

 

[Kitty2201]

I've never watched it before

 

[Alienfish]

Idek really, they spread it out on the channels here really bad so i don't think I'm gonna follow too many events. Maybe if I'm bored enough lol.

 

[Draco]

I'll enjoy the Olympics for the good aspects (international goodwill and camaraderie, heartwarming moments, healthy competitiveness, snippets of history and backstory, "highlight packages" showcasing amazing feats, and "behind the scenes" pieces as that's always fascinating to me). As always, I'll ignore or disregard the things I don't care for (unsportsmanlike behaviour of any kind, cheating, all sports I don't care for (..so .. most of them..), segments whining about ___ and ___ in the host city, and any and all displays of nationalistic "pride" at the expense of equally hardworking individuals/teams).

I always watch at least some gymnastics as that is just so beautiful to see. I try to catch some field hockey as I used to play and loved it, as well as swimming especially diving events.

As I'm not working this year, this marks the first Olympics or Commonwealth Games I've "missed" as an educator in about 10 years. That will be hard for me as these events are something the children usually love to reinact and we support that interest by running our own mini Olympics complete with opening and closing ceremonies. Ah well. Next time!

I love the olympics it has a rawness to it, unfilterd .people fighting for national pride ( and endorsement ect ect) . I saw funny story on news about the olympics ( a story about the olympics during olympics premiere week lol) . in the story they did a poll of people who won Silver medal versus people who won bronze medal, and it found the people who won bronze were 80% more happy to have won a medal then that of people that won a silver medal.Infact many of the silver medal winners ( almost a third) admitted that they viewed winning the silver medal as a failure.

I would think it would be a point of honor to stand before the world and say im the 2nd best (hmmm maybe maybe not) there's that rawness.
so i guess if you can't win a gold and you see someone just stop and let someone pass them to take 2nd place, you know that the man or women is choosing to be happy over winning? Either way enjoy the olympics they only come around ever two years.

 

[vogelbiene]

I have always enjoyed the Olympic games, but this one doesn't sound like it will be too good considering so many athletes have decided to pull out. Don't get me wrong- I'll still watch it, but I think it's a shame so many won't be there.
My personal favourite is the Winter Olympic games though. All that snow is perfect <3

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

Not really. I mean it's fun to watch a little of it but I'm not really a die hard fan. The most entertaining parts are like the gymnastics and ice skating, I used to LOVE ice skating and figure skating as a kid, like I LOVED it, read books about famous skaters and stuff.