The Olympics
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
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Meg's World - Blog PhotographyThe last couple of minutes of the closing ceremony.:)
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyCuriously, when I go to the gym I find that I am more motivated when they are showing athletics on the screens rather than anything else. So, I am looking forward to the olympics because I can see that it will provide motivation for me to get fitter. I am, so far, unsure why this motivates me because I have no real desire to become an athlete and compete in events like that. I am guessing that watching healthy and fit people at least matches my goal of becoming more healthy and fit and I can see that what I want is achievable - somewhat like the effect Roger Bannister[^] had after he broke the 4 minute mile* for the first time. After seeing that it was possible many athletes followed. *I don't think for one moment that I am going to achieve a four-minute-mile (1609m), nor am I going to try
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Megan Forbes wrote: I find the gymnastics incredible I just watch for the muscular men ;) If I had a better memory I would remember more.
Suzanne Boyle wrote: I just watch for the muscular men :-O
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyI'm curious. Why do you like to watch the marathon? Are you a runner? The marathon would seem to be a limited interest event. It's long (two hours and change), the drama is by no means obvious, and elite runners usually aren't the most attractive people in the world (scrawny, no muscle mass). BTW: I'm a runner; my two marathon times were 5:45 and 4:52, respectively.
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I'm curious. Why do you like to watch the marathon? Are you a runner? The marathon would seem to be a limited interest event. It's long (two hours and change), the drama is by no means obvious, and elite runners usually aren't the most attractive people in the world (scrawny, no muscle mass). BTW: I'm a runner; my two marathon times were 5:45 and 4:52, respectively.
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delete this;I've done a lot of running in my time, yes, although 21.5Km is the longest I've ever done in one stretch. I enjoyed cross country at school more than road running, and these distances tend to be shorter. I also enjoy swimming, cycling and kayaking, I guess as a result of being crap at sports like field hockey (where I do enjoy playing wing). In SA we grow up watching the Comrades ultra marathon on one of the winter public holidays. I guess that's what got me into watching it :)
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyEverything apart from synchronised swimming , Americans cheating by double dribbling at basketball but ending up winning and weightlifting.
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I've done a lot of running in my time, yes, although 21.5Km is the longest I've ever done in one stretch. I enjoyed cross country at school more than road running, and these distances tend to be shorter. I also enjoy swimming, cycling and kayaking, I guess as a result of being crap at sports like field hockey (where I do enjoy playing wing). In SA we grow up watching the Comrades ultra marathon on one of the winter public holidays. I guess that's what got me into watching it :)
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog Photography21.5K is quite respectable. I haven't run anything longer than about 7-8 miles the last three years or so. I like cycling myself; I ride a Trek 1220 road bike. Megan Forbes wrote: Comrades ultra marathon :cool: People who do ultras are incredible. I can see myself doing another marathon (or at least a half) some day, but an ultra is out of my reach. I'm too old, too heavy, and have too many biomechanical problems :sigh:.
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyTraditionaly I have liked the Track and Field events. However this year Judo is taking front seat. One of my sons classmates is an Olympian. Nicole Kubes[^] I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that can think of.
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyMegan Forbes wrote: which events are you looking forward to watching most? Not an event, a ceromony. The closing ceromony. Regardz Colin J Davies
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Traditionaly I have liked the Track and Field events. However this year Judo is taking front seat. One of my sons classmates is an Olympian. Nicole Kubes[^] I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that can think of.
That page didn't appear to contain anything other than the name and weight, a very strange combination. Try this: http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletebios/5018223/detail.html[^] I had a distant cousin (her part of the family emigrated to Australia decades ago - way before I was born) and she was in one of the Olymics in the 70s representing Australia at for some Swimming event.
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That page didn't appear to contain anything other than the name and weight, a very strange combination. Try this: http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletebios/5018223/detail.html[^] I had a distant cousin (her part of the family emigrated to Australia decades ago - way before I was born) and she was in one of the Olymics in the 70s representing Australia at for some Swimming event.
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Colin, Thanks, the link is updated. :-O Do not know what happened to the one I had, just copied it? :confused: I do not mind getting old. It beats all the other options that can think of.
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyMostly Track and Field events. They have always been the most watchable for me. Ant. I'm hard, yet soft.
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyMy two must watch events are the marathon and the triathlon. A Canadian won gold in the triathlon in Sydney and with luck he may do well again this time around. :clap,clap: :) I also like some of the biking and swimming events. Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] I think people should be required to have an operator's permit to use the internet. John Simmons
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21.5K is quite respectable. I haven't run anything longer than about 7-8 miles the last three years or so. I like cycling myself; I ride a Trek 1220 road bike. Megan Forbes wrote: Comrades ultra marathon :cool: People who do ultras are incredible. I can see myself doing another marathon (or at least a half) some day, but an ultra is out of my reach. I'm too old, too heavy, and have too many biomechanical problems :sigh:.
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delete this;Similar here then, I haven't done any road running for quite a while. In SA I no longer feel it's safe enough, and coming over to the UK I was too lazy :-O. Still, I swim before work each morning, and we do a lot of offroad cycling and hiking on weekends, so I'm quite a bit fitter than I look :)
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyI always enjoy the gymnastics events; the rest are of no interest at all. "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyWithout doubt the sprint events. ZOOM! :cool: "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyI'll enjoy laughing at the cheats who get caught using banned performance enhancing drugs and then sripped of their medals. Bet there will be plenty of that going on - seems to be endemic at the moment. I also will wonder how many winners have been lucky to take a substance that doesn't show up in any tests...
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyThe Drug Scandal event, very entertaining ;) To be honest, track and field is not my thing. I love the opening and closing shows of the Olympics and that is about it. If you twisted my arm then I guess I would have to say the swimming events or the relay races. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan wrote: "I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Swimming is good, track & field too. I mostly like the individual sports, can't be bothered with the team sports like hockey, football, basketball. The table tennis is always good for laugh :)
>The table tennis is always good for laugh Those guys are scary. They have ESP for sure. Absolutely insane how fast and reactive they are. I forgot about the team sports. But I find they are not terribly thrilling as there is no history or consistency. A team that comes together only every four years to play another team doesn't have the same interest to me as the year in, year out team of the same sport. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Christopher Duncan wrote: "I always knew that somewhere deep inside that likable, Save the Whales kinda guy there lurked the heart of a troublemaker..." Crikey! ain't life grand?
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With only 3 days to go to the Olympics, which events are you looking forward to watching most? (if any) I find the gymnastics incredible and always look forward to watching them. I also quite enjoy watching the marathon. Unusual for me to be looking forward to sports TV quite so much :cool:
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog PhotographyGymnastics, Diving, Fencing, and of course the ever present programming... What! That's not an event?! Well! Then, the Olympics suck!;)
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little past them into the impossible.--Arthur C. Clark