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Poll Question: Will you be watching the Olympics this year?
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    Posted: July 09 2008 at 14:41
I don't think I'll be following the Olympics this year. It just seems the great event is past the glory days. The anti-doping/drug testing mess, professional/amateur  debates, The "How many gold will this swimmer win" stories, the China/Tibet issue, just make me want to avoid the games. How about you all?



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No. I don't care about sports, and the whole issue this year is rank with hypocrisy and bullsh*t, why anyone could take it seriously outside of the atheletes themselves is beyond me.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

No. I don't care about sports, and the whole issue this year is rank with hypocrisy and bullsh*t, why anyone could take it seriously outside of the atheletes themselves is beyond me.


This is what sucks, I LOVE sports, but I just can't do this.



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Same as any other year - I'll watch a good amount of it if I can.
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Can't be bothered.
Seems to be mainly of interest to the competing athletes whom I pity because it's deteriorated into a competition between pharmaceutical companies.
Seems a great shame for the few honest contestants left helplessly behind in a rigged contest.
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No, but then I dont care much for athletics anyway.
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Nope, never watched it before, and don't care to.
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Give me soccer... give me some NFL... some f1.... and that's all the sports i need.... The olympics? A very expensive borefest for me....
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I used to be an athlete almost made it to the Olympics (in fencing!) , so I do like to watch the agony of defeat and the extasy (no not the pill) of victory . Some sports are fascinating. At the same time its a drugfest, making Woodstock look like a koolaid contest! It is , on the other hand, the only way to get people together without falling into UN style corruption and hopefully intermingle. China will win lots of medals and proceed to rule the world
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Summer Olympics = women's beach volleyball on TV.  'nuff said. Wink
 
But seriously, when else are you going to get coverage of sort-of offbeat sports like rowing or synchronized swimming?
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I don't like most of the sports aired but I do like seeing the US beat other countries so I will watch the whole thing.
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Points: 12600 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2008 at 16:48
Well, now that my cousin made the Olympic Baseball team, I may be watchingSmile



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Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

Well, now that my cousin made the Olympic Baseball team, I may be watchingSmile


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Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

Well, now that my cousin made the Olympic Baseball team, I may be watchingSmile


Who's your cousin? Has he signed with any team yet?
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SS Jason Donald, he plays with the Reading Phillies



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After the 2004 Olympics, wasn't baseball demoted from being a medal sport to being an exhibition sport?  Either way, that is still great news.
 
A guy from my high school's baseball team was one of the players for the Greece team when the Olympics were in Greece.  His parents or grandparents were of Greek descent so he was able to play on that team.  Was that 2000 or 2004?  I can't remember now. 
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Well, this is the last time Baseball will be there....



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Not watching it.I am sports nut but am personally boycotting the Olympics this year because of various issues I have with the country of China.



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Not a sports fan at all (save for perhaps the fact I used to skateboard, but that's not considered "sport" by snobbish sport elitists), have been a arts culture type person instead (well, music culture anyway), but the one that really ticked me off is the China/Tibet issue. 
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