Red Forman

I would be upset if I couldn't sleep with her too, she's hot!

Winged Wheeler

I hate the Olympics, which is a quadrenniel celebration of nationalism and xenophobia.

Idiots at American TV networks that only show events where Americans will win the gold medal. That, and womens gymnastics.

Endless human interest stories and 5 minute biopics--if I wanted to watch that I'd watch Oprah.

I don't care about getting back to the Olympic center for thoughts from Bob Costas or Jim Gray.

If they treated it like CSPAN and showed competitions 24/7 without commentary and marketing I would watch. Otherwise you can keep it.

WW

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jungle

It does serve as a most excellent billboard for ad space.

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DYNASTY HVY

I think they schould give us the real scoop on what it's really like to be a visitor to an Olympic event ie getting around during the games and also what it's like to wait in line to get into a venue .

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11Fan

By my reckoning, the only ones truly happy about the 2012 Olympics occurring in London are those who live in Paris.

UASIT

yes...24/7 women's field hockey without any commericals, commentary...

DYNASTY HVY

You said a mouthfull there !
The wife and I watched both the Russian and U.S. coverage of the opening ceremonies and the amount of ads shown was the difference between night and day .
And then there was this -
Bored Queen quickly becomes Internet sensation - Yardbarker

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Ottopilot

They dont' show any of the good events, so I won't watch. I saw the best part already:

Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson) - Opening Ceremony - London 2012 Olympic Games - YouTube

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Winged Wheeler

"The Olympics are a giant exercise in sports socialism—or crony capitalism, if you prefer—where the profits are privatized and the costs socialized. The games never pay for themselves because they are designed not to. That’s because the International Olympic Committee (an opaque “nongovernmental” bureaucracy made up of fat cats from various countries) pockets most of the revenue from sponsorships and media rights (allegedly to promote global sports), requiring the host country to pay the bulk of the costs. Among the very few times the games haven’t left a city swimming in red ink was after the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, when voters, having learned from Montreal’s experience, barred the use of public funds, forcing the IOC to use existing facilities and pick up most of the tab for new ones.


Even that’s far from fair. If anything, the Olympics should be compensating the host city for the hassle and inconvenience, not the other way around. The only reason they don’t is because the Cold War once stirred retrograde nationalistic passions, blinding the world to the ass-backwardness of the existing arrangement. Londoners are signaling that this can’t go on.

Shika Dalmia

Why London Is Yawning Over the Olympics - Reason.com

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This photo of the Chinese Olympic Swim Team's Training Pool was released yesterday.