Do you care about the Olympics?

[Arrrhalomynn]

The Olympics opened today, and nobody seems to care. I know I hardly do. My mom was watching it and I saw a bit of the opening when getting something to drink. It didn't seem very interesting.

Same goes for the sports. I might watch some events I'm interested in. Cycling for example. I might also watch some events Dutch people might get a gold medal in. Swimming comes to mind. Apart from that, I can't really be bothered about the whole event.

[Izret101]

Americans win swimming. Americans sweep the olympics. Thats it dont worry about it.
No but seriously.
I will probably watch the more interesting events or whatever the hell is on.
I want to see how the Iraqis do though because they have a new opportunity opened to them and they are MAJOR underdogs.
Otherwise

[jonlester]

My only reason for watching any of it is the simple fact that it's on TV. I think it's nice that Iraq and Afghanistan are sending female athletes for the first time ever and I'd like to have more good news like that.

Otherwise I think the Olympics are completely corrupt. How did it become acceptable to allow NBA stars to compete? You might remember from history that Jim Thorpe had to give back his medals because it came out that he had been on a semi-pro softball team or something like that. Now we have the Dream Team, apparently because it's all about getting gold medals for Americans at any cost.

Oh, it's also good news that Juan Antonio Samarach is gone.

[Izret101]

Ya but we were singled out to make sure we arnt using drugs too.
I love that in a massive world wide event they are basically saying "We dont trust you America. If i find you using drugs im gonna kick your ass and you wont be able to play"
When 2 of the Greeks are already being banned.

[jonlester]

And one of them had a wreck too, right?

[Mike Leon]

The Olympics opened today? Huh.

[KarmaCreep]

Olywhat?

[KarmaCreep]

Ya but we were singled out to make sure we arnt using drugs too.
I love that in a massive world wide event they are basically saying "We dont trust you America. If i find you using drugs im gonna kick your ass and you wont be able to play"
When 2 of the Greeks are already being banned.

Haha, that's us greeks!

[Arrrhalomynn]

Ya but we were singled out to make sure we arnt using drugs too.
I love that in a massive world wide event they are basically saying "We dont trust you America. If i find you using drugs im gonna kick your ass and you wont be able to play"
When 2 of the Greeks are already being banned.

What? Everybody gets checked for drugs. American or not.

[Hydrobond]

Yeah, I watched the first 20 minutes of the opening ceremony last night, it was the most boring piece of shit i have ever seen.  Other than that, I'm surprised that there wasn't any terrorist type thing given that it was FRIDAY THE 13th.  

Anyways, I always like to watch what I can of the actual games, so I'm sure I will be catching a lot of the first week. After that, off to school again.

[shadytool]

i watched the end of the opening last night.  i always wonder what the ppl of the city holding the events do with the new shit they build for the olympics after they are done.  thats alot of money and time to build those things just for 3 (?) weeks of games.

onto the NBA players... get them the hell out of there.  bring in college kids that dont get payed to play a sport.  they do it for the love of the game not money.  plus they will most prolly show up for meetings on time (unlike the NBA players)  and show some heart out there on the court.    
its bad when the 'dream team' (*snicker* they are bad and wont win a medal) loses to italy in an expedition game by 17 points.  

as far as i can tell there is no need to bring NBA Pros to the olympics.  makes me sick.

@izret:  on the drug and doping tests... get a clue.

[jonlester]

Atlanta got Turner Field and Centennial Olympic Park out of it. Nearby Conyers still has the upgraded horse park that's been put to good use. Other events were held in existing facilities.

Also in Atlanta some things went the way of the 1982 World's Fair. I was there in August 2000, walking down the street to something and saw one of the temporay headquarters still had the banner hanging up after 4 years, with nothing inside and a beat neighborhood all around it.

For Athens, I've heard it was the most congested capital in Europe but now people can get around. They have a much improved infrastructure now. Plus they have an elevator installed at the Parthenon now so that will increase tourism by old and handicapped people among other benefits.

[Arrrhalomynn]

Yeah, that 10 billion is well spent....

Anyways, it's not just basketball that's professionals. All sports people are professionals. Bettini wins at cycling, Ian Thorpe at swimming,  etc. They're all sports milionaires.

[shadytool]

thanks jonlester.  never knew what happened to those things.

pros in the olympics makes me crazy.  and arrr just pointed out more of them that i didnt know about.

[Izret101]

@ Arr & Shady
i know about the drug tests but in a speech they singled out America. Probably because there was such a huge investigation into it at the last olympics, then with Lance Armstrong and with just about every "prefessional" sports player in the US