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Posted by jublke on 27-07-2012 at 17:10:
Olympic Fever
Anyone else excited for the Olympics? I wrote a fanfic to celebrate:
http://www.gatchfanfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=1407
What's your favorite sport to watch? I love diving and gymnastics.
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Posted by ChrisW on 27-07-2012 at 20:10:
Gymnastics is one of my favorites too. For the winter I'm now partial to ski jump, after spending a lot of time there while volunteering for 2010.
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Posted by amethyst on 27-07-2012 at 20:22:
Oddly enough for being a sports enthusiast, I never really got into the Olympics. However, there are events that I do enjoy watching more than others: basketball, volleyball, baseball/softball (I know, baseball is no longer an Olympic sport, not sure about softball), and synchronized swimming (which I tried in high school and is really fun, I might have even been able to get good at it if I had more instruction than the two weeks we got to do it in PE).
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Posted by Becky Rock on 27-07-2012 at 21:50:
With my in-laws living outside of Atlanta, we got to attend several of the 1996 Summer Olympic events there and had a ball. I'd love to go to it again and am looking forward to watching as much as I can.
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Posted by clouddancer on 27-07-2012 at 21:54:
Like you Julie, I too enjoy watching the diving as well as the swimming. And I have always enjoyed watching the men's gymnastics, especially the floor and bars routines.
Another sport I try to watch, but does not appear to be shown much is the equestrian eventing (dressage, jumping and cross country).
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Posted by littlewolf on 28-07-2012 at 05:44:
"I'm feeling very Olympic today"Sanka Coffie Cool Runnings
my sister and I are watching the opening ceremony now (re-play) and trying not to cringe to much at the Australian Presenters miss-pronunciation of words, names and nationality.
Australian team has just walked in to the stadium.
"I come from a land down under, where women glow and men plunder, can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder, you better run, you better take cover..."
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Posted by lborgia88 on 28-07-2012 at 17:34:
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I like to watch all those too. I'm actually currently in the process of trying to learn how to do proper flip turns while swimming -which is hard for me because I'm not all that coordinated! Olympic swimmers make it look so easy...
The equestrian stuff might get a little more coverage this year, as Prince William's cousin, Zara, is on the UK equestrian team, and royalty has a way of attracting media attention...
FWIW, the equestrian events are one of the very few where men and women compete, individually, against each other!
Posted by Victoria on 28-07-2012 at 17:48:
I'll be watching gymnastics as well. And perhaps some equestrian competitions and shooting. Those awesome wellies and umbrellas our team wore for the opening ceremony definitely raised my interest. I hope they'll bring some gold back to Prague. 
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 28-07-2012 at 18:49:
About 10 minutes into the opening ceremony, lightning struck a transformer, and power was out for about 15 1/2 hours! So unfair! 
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Posted by Becky Rock on 29-07-2012 at 00:31:
That sucks, EW.
So far I've watched bicycling, women's basketball, archery, mens and womens swimming and women's volleyball.
That's it for today. I can only take so much sports.
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Posted by Daniella T on 29-07-2012 at 18:07:
I watched the women's foil last night - surprisingly exciting (I've never watched foil before!). Looking forward to the golf - for the first time it's in the Olympics.
P.S. I just saw today's prompt - foil!
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Posted by amethyst on 29-07-2012 at 18:13:
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Daniella, that is completely ironic!
I was looking over the list of anonymous contributions that I have and that one just jumped out at me for some reason.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting here at my computer wondering if I'm the only one who hasn't seen any events. But then I don't have TV. Well, I do have a TV, several, but no cable, no dish/satellite, not even antenna/broadcast (nothing reaches where I'm at except a lot of static).
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Posted by KT1972 on 29-07-2012 at 18:22:
No, Ame, you're not the only one who hasn't seen any events, I haven't either and I have two sets I could watch them on.....
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Posted by clouddancer on 29-07-2012 at 19:15:
Well ladies, since this has been advertised as the first olympics of the "digital age" - highly blogged, tweeted about - I have also heard several of my friends saying they are going to have little windows on their computers open so they can continuously watch during the work day.
I am sure, if you were really interested, you could do the same thing. I did watch a little on TV yesterday morning but since then I have not really been paying attention.
Daniella, do you mean you are looking forward to golf being part of the Olympics next summer games? I don't think it is a event for this year.
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Posted by Daniella T on 31-07-2012 at 18:01:
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You're right, CD! I thought it was these Olympics, but I just checked the schedule again, no golf. Doesn't matter, lots of other goodies!!!
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Posted by lborgia88 on 02-08-2012 at 02:23:
If I recall, they sometimes "demo" sports that are trying to get official Olympic status -could be that that's what's going on at these Olympics? No shortage of golf courses, I am sure, in England. Could be a tricky thing for some countries, I suppose. If there were Olympic golf at the 2016 games in Rio, I wonder if they'd have a golf course handy.
Posted by ElectricWhite on 02-08-2012 at 17:17:
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Hey, if Saudi Arabia and Dubai can have golf courses, I'm sure it won't be much of a problem for Rio!
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