18.Feb.2010 The Olympics
OK.
I haven’t put up an olympic blog yet, mostly cause I am too busy watching them. I love it. Can’t get enough of it. And yes Klint Bitter you are unamerican. Zero interest?
Anyways, I few thoughts/observations/musings…
- It is on every night. I know it is gonna be there, like an old friend.
- I let the kids watch as much as they want. I slip this past Heidi since it is educational…in fact just today, Isaac asked her out of the blue at dinner if she had every been to Belarus. Awesome.
- I am rooting for Johnny Weir. I mean any one who insists on real fur can’t be all that bad. I agree with him faux fur is just not gonna cut it on your skating outfit/costume/blouse?
- Ethan says he wants to be a figure skater. And not do it with a girl…just by himself. He put on roller skates and was twirling around the family room the other night. (He didn’t get injured).
- Ethan also strapped hot wheels orange track to his feet and pretended he was skiing.
- The kids even got some life lessons about death on the opening day.
- I love the overlays of luge or skiing where they show two competitors in slow mo and where they line up to each other (the kids do not get this part and wonder why two guys are lugeing at once…)
- Why does snowboarding have 1080s and skating has triple some thing or others. Can’t they pick one set of lingo?
- The opening was awesome (and long) but long is fine with me.
- I am very confused when the Short track speed skaters do the relay races.
- I am tired of two man luge and curling jokes… get some new material…
- Love that the summer and winter olympics are now staggered so I get a fix every two years…
What do you love about the Olympics?
There are 6 Comments to "The Olympics"
I’m with Klint. What’s so American about watching people play games….people that even get paid to play games… and then suddenly….they are doing it for their country. It’s like, I do my job and then one day I do it while wearing red, white, and blue….and now I am doing it for my country…yet, I’m getting a whole lot of publicity and promo opportunities. Do they give that money to the USA? Well, in some sense they do….if they pay their taxes. I don’t know. Actually, I haven’t even given it much thought before now. However, I love that you are enjoying it so much! Enjoy!!
Wow. I almost had to delete the above comment. Just to save Tina the embarrassment of having to read that someday…
But I will leave it for you. It is America after all.
The one Shaun White valiantly competes for.
Thanks Brice. I really was just messin’ with ya.
I’m a watcher….although I did have to stop with the couples figure skating. AND, not sure I like the denim look for the snowboarders.
I love that it’s at least one opportunity that I can wholeheartedly support my country and take pride in their accomplishments. Having lived overseas so long international relations and politics is much more gray to me than to most Americans. But during the Olympics I can cheer for the red white and blue to win without having to figure out if I truly agree with such and such policy or worry about its ramifications. We are the good guys, and the Russians and Germans (and Chinese) are the bad guys. And at least this year the Canadians are the bad guys too which I’m rather enjoying. They get a free pass far too often.
Of course it helps that the American team is kicking butt this year - that makes watching much more enjoyable. And they are doing well without all of the pre-Olympic hype like in the summer games. I love it when the other countries pull out the how-many-medals-won-per-capita argument. Canada is already at this stage trying to explain why “Own the Podium” didn’t turn out well. I love that in reality only about 1% of the US population has done any of these sports, though, so the per capita argument sorta breaks down.
Loved watching Shaun White dominate the halfpipe. In a sport with subjective judging, you know the guy must be really good when even I could tell he was a hundred times better than everybody else.
Loved watching skaters fall down. That never gets old.
I love the Olympics. Summer or Winter. Doesn’t matter. In fact, they could invent an Autumn and Spring Olympics and I’d watch.
GO TEAM USA!
Brook says he loves it when they’re over, and we can get on with the real sports!