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Yeah it's great. Gets a bit boring in the early rounds when one or two go off way in front but finals days are great.Eh I love rowing
Yeah it's great. Gets a bit boring in the early rounds when one or two go off way in front but finals days are great.Eh I love rowing
Think I'm coming to a similar conclusion, and may have to add Sailing into that category too.Me watching rowing in a year when we have no stand out gold medal prospects.
Nah.Artistic gymnastics is lame as ****.
That's simply boring..... And it's something coming from someone who thinks only Test cricket matters and T20 is circus.Nah.
Nah.That's simply boring..... And it's something coming from someone who thinks only Test cricket matters and T20 is circus.
Yeah, I will give you that. The level of skill is undeniable, but really boring for my untrained eyes.Nah.
If nothing else the fact that some of these teenagers still have working knees and ankles is a marvel in itself.
Aren't the rowers fancied to do well this year?Think I'm coming to a similar conclusion, and may have to add Sailing into that category too.
I'm wondering where all GB's talented rowers and sailors have gone?
Every time I switch on to it I see a GB boat languishing near the back. But having checked some results, seems we do have a few going through to Finals with chances so far.Aren't the rowers fancied to do well this year?
I think non-pinnacle events are the worst, especially football; as not even the biggest football fans care for them.I think mostly what this thread suggests is that outside of some of the "non-pinnacle" events and potentially a few of the judges scoring events, that even if you think an event is dire, someone else probably loves it.
Yup.I think non-pinnacle events are the worst, especially football; as not even the biggest football fans care for them.
I see Djokovic played Nadal earlier today. Normally, that would be a must see tennis match, but really couldn't care less.....although probably doesn't help that Nadal is about as mobile round a court as Murray.Yup.
I must admit I always slightly ascribed my complete indifference to Olympic footy to the fact that GB didn't enter a team. However we did in 2012 and genuinely wasn't arsed then either.
Possibly has something to do with it. Scotland could have represented GB at the 1996 games and I think there's been a couple of recent Games where England could have done the same, but I don't think I could bring myself to support an England U21 side that was basically re-branded for an Olympic tournament I don't care about.Yup.
I must admit I always slightly ascribed my complete indifference to Olympic footy to the fact that GB didn't enter a team. However we did in 2012 and genuinely wasn't arsed then either.
I agree with all of this except the idea that there's any pressing need to control the number of sports at the Olympics anyway. Within logistical reason, just throw the doors open IMO. If it's established enough to have genuine elite level competition at an international level and it isn't a team sport with established mainstream prestige events already then it belongs in the Olympics.I feel like it's kind of the purpose of the olympics to see weird sports on show and give those sportspeople a big audience in front of which to do their biggest thing. So I'm inclined to agree that things like golf and football that don't really have the Olympics as the prestigious tournament. For everything else, the Olympics is absolutely the right place imo.
Like when else are you going to find out a thing or two about the best in the world at taekwondo or whatever and learn a bit about what it means to be that?
'I'm a +3 x-pro rated continental torunament winner' - visible confusion, does this guy play in the pub or what
'I've an olympic medal' - I get it, nice
I think one thing that makes people get their knacks in a bind about having unusual sports is that they see the Olympics not as a celebration of all sport has about it around the world, which is absolutely what it should be, but instead they see it as some kind of rubber-stamp approval of which sports they're supposed to care about as commanded by the authorities. Which it might try to be sometimes, but shouldn't be.
To get around this they should get used to binning a good number of sports every time and then bringing them back. Keep a handful of them as important permanent council members if you like, such as track and field and whatever, but then throw the doors open.
I think if you asked any of the athletes they'd definitely pick Olympic gold over world championship gold in all of the athletic events (and pretty much everything else other than football/golf/tennis).As for the 'non-pinnacle' argument...how many sports have the Olympics as the unarguable pinnacle of the sport?
Even for sports like athletics and swimming, they have their own World Championships. I wonder if someone like Colin Jackson, who was a double world champion (and set a world record in doing so in 1993) would have given up Stuttgart 1993 for a gold either the year previously in Barcelona, or at Atlanta in 1996.