The olympics. Yay.

[Darth Sea Bass]

I'll be glad when it's all over i could give a shit about sports in general and the Olympics in particular!

The economy is in the shitter Millions can't find work so instead of Sorting out the problems two succesive goverments have thrown an obscene amount of money at something that most likely won't have any lasting positive effects.

 

[RedLister]

Of course as someone who doesn't like sports, I'm apathetic.

But I'm personally more appalled by the corporate hegemony going on in London.

It could be good for local businesses, or rather, it would be if fucking Coca-Cola and McDonalds (companies that REALLY NEED THE ADVERTISING, OBVIOUSLY) weren't laying down minefields around them that explode with on the spot fines into the thousands for trying to capitalise on the occasion.

Y'know, but it's okay if they do it because they're 'sponsors'.

Bollocks.

This! local business in london are going to be crippled by the massive list of "DO NOTS!" at the olympics and then theres the transport system which don't cope on a normal day how the hell will it cope when we suddenly all got to stand aside to let them pampered elite get to where there going means more lost business since most people won't even bother trying to fight around it to do things like shopping.

They should work around us! not the other away around!

Also its all on london. It isn't the british olympics its just the London Olympics. Other towns have mainly been given the finger. Seems only the rich elite will benefit from this. Not the standard Londoner or anyone else who happens not to live in london thats for sure.

Finally there is the whole close protection UK (ferm responible for leaving unpaid workfare slaves sleeping under a bridge during the jubilee with no shelter or even working toilets) getting some contracts olympic related.
Also the dirty G4S mercenaries failing to deliver the proper security and then still demanding they get the 57million when they haven't properly delivered. (G4S also responible for child abuse in there prisons and heavy handed deportations which have resulted in deaths)

Yeah im being a miserble C*** about it all. I would be fine about it if it would actually benefit the normal person and not just Cameron and he's well off rich elite friends.

 

[CounterReproductive]

I see a lot of money that has been spent, correction, a VAST amount of money that has been spent in a time of massive financial strife and struggle. Then I see the projected turnover from the olympics and the potential investment opportunities.. and its not even a drop in the ocean, and I think, Why is everyone so fucking stupid.

 

[Mylinkay Asdara]

I don't care about sports, I don't like sports, I've never played in sports, and 99% of the time I couldn't care less about anything related to sports.

The 1% that changes is the Olympics. I love them. I watch them every possible moment, I follow what's going on with the athletes, I care about their struggles, I love that the international community feels like a community for a whole slew of days together around them. I invest myself in the Olympics because of what they represent and because these athletes (unlike the pros in my country by and large) are passionate about what they do, have striven to be where they are, and the amount of human emotions coming together is beautiful. I cheer for all the countries, for all the athletes - it isn't just about what my country's people are doing, it is something better than that. I see it as something that represents what humanity could be like if we weren't like what we are together.

I would love to go to them one day.

 

[Vhite]

Its only time Im able to watch sports on TV. It can be fun but I don't really follow it.

 

[Dimitriov]

As a Canadian I know that these are just the fake Olympics anyway. The real ones are still two years away.

What's that? I can see about 50 different competitions of people running... and that's it?

Wow. Way to make Speed Skating look interesting


*Goes back to ignoring sports until hockey season starts*

 

[Plinglebob]

I enjoy the Olympics. Interestingly enough I enjoy watching the "more obscure (here in the US anyway)" sports, even though the US team usually isn't in contention. I'll cheer on the U.S. but stay for the finals of say... team handball for example (if we even qualified.) I just like the obscure, different sports.

This is why I like the Olympics. I hate Football, Golf and a lot of other sports that are shown on TV, but 2 weeks every 4 years I get to watch something I know about and enjoy (swimming, Fencing, Hockey) or something I'd never be able to watch normally (diving, gymnastics). I'm also not sure whether people complain about it so much just because we're British and moaning is a national pastime (along with drinking tea and talking about the weather) or because all the newspapers and journalists are in London and pissed they have to get up earlier to get to work.

 

[GLo Jones]

I think this accurately represents my expectations. Hooray, or something.

 

[Alssadar]

I'm going to watch the opening, have an opinion based on that, and then return to the Internet and my vidya games. *Shrug*

 

[Supertegwyn]

I love sport, and I love the Olympics.

Roll on Friday!

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

I see not many people are into sports...

This is a video game website.

The general consensus is that sports are the opposite of video games.

 

[DugMachine]

I don't watch them too much but I still cheer my country on every time I can. Can't wait to see what we win this year, USA USA USA!

 

[Aris Khandr]

The Olympics already started. The football tournaments began yesterday and today. I love any excuse to see football on TV, so I'll take it. Was sad to see UAE lose to Uruguay after their wonderful first half.

I honestly couldn't care less about swimming, so I've got to get the enjoyment I can out of the games before the US coverage turns into Michael Phelps-o-vision.

 

[DugMachine]

I'm only going to watch US basketball. I like seeing us streamroll every other country in basketball.

It's so unfair but I love it anyways >

 

[mitchell271]

As a rower, I'm looking forward to the rowing events. That's about it...

 

[devotedsniper]

All I have to say is this is a total waste of the money I (and everyone else) pay in tax, they've spent my money on something we didn't need (as usual) there plenty of things that money could have gone, for example jobs? resurfacing roads which need it (not just an f'in patch!), I could go on.

 

[4173]

Mixed. I'll watch some events, a few short track finals, a few short swimming finals. Maybe a bit of diving, gymnastics if some "story" is interesting (a la whats her name in...'96 I think). I'll watch volleyball if I see it, random finals with Canadians in it. There aren't any sports I'll actually be following however.


As to the other end, too much public money is spent on it, but I don't mind some being spent and I don't think the Olympics should be cancelled because London isn't Utopia or w/e.

 

[Pinkamena]

Allow the Count to tell you how I feel on this matter:

 

[BiscuitWheels]

Man, I can almost hear the eye rolling from here. It's like a contest to see who can be the most aloof and cynical. Don't ever change, guys.

 

[thiosk]

I only care about the winter olympics, because the winter olympics has curling.