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Are you watching the Olympics?
What's your favorite sport to watch?

I am not a sport person overall (hockey only please!), but I love to watch the winter Olympics! I love to see the math involved in curling; the beauty of the ice dancers; the grace of the figure skaters; and this year I've added in the accuracy of the biathlon contestants! The hockey teams are fun this year since there aren't the NHL players. It reminds me of a good college game!

I'm hoping to see the Canadian Ice Dancers win the gold - Virtue and Moir.

I was shocked to see the France biathlon man come back and win the gold!
I didn't watch the figure skaters yet. Mostly because every time the tv says it's figure skating - it's not. It's snowboarding or skiing. Blah!

So, are you watching?
 
I am leaving the Olympics on pretty much all day, switching between NBC and NBCSN. My absolute favorite is figure skating. I am excited for the women's individual programs to start tomorrow night (ah... I guess that would be tonight since I stayed up waaaaay too late).

I have also enjoyed watching speed skating. I still cannot wrap my head around how fast they are going! Today we watched a man break the Olympic record and then another man break that 4 minutes later! I am also completely intrigued by skeleton because I cannot imagine not being so incredibly scared doing it. But those skeleton helmets are so incredible. So many look like works of art on a helmet.

We've watched a little of everything, I think. Shawn White did amazing and I just love how personable Chloe Kim is. My daughter is infatuated with the Big Air competition and all I can think of is how high up they have to go to snowboard down. It gives me anxiety just watching it on TV.

Yep... definitely obsessed with the Olympics. Though, I do love the summer games more than the winter games, this is still so much fun to watch.
 
I honestly keep forgetting it is on. I didn't even realise (before it started) that it was on, and now. We don't watch much regular TV, Netflix most of the time here.
I do LOVE figure skating though. I should tune in sometime.
 
I don't know if it's because half the coverage here u have to watch online but I have seen more ice-skating & dancing than ever before even though we aren't watching it much!
 
I'm watching, so much so, that I had to wait to post my reply until the ladies speed skater 1000m event was over. Being British living in Germany, means I get to support two countries, so more different sports to watch. And as dear son is still poorly what better thing to do with him than watch the Olympics!
Anyone would think I was sports addicted, but I literally only show any interest every two years when the Olympics are on, and then I become an armchair expert! My husband thinks it hilarious!
 
Like, @Chippi, I keep forgetting it's on. I have such a limited amount of time to actually turn the tv on that it doesn't register with me. I do really like the snowboarding, skeleton, luge, and speed skating in the winter games, but I tend to watch much more of the summer games when they come around.
 
I've been watching on and off. I am a huge fan of ice skating and ice dancing. These athletes make jumping in the air look so easy. And downhill, slalom skiing...that keeps me on the edge of my seat!
 
I'd love to be watching more, but since we don't subscribe to any sports programs we can't get anything other than what NBC deems worthy of our viewing. I'm a 100% total olympics fan, but we simply don't have the finances to subscribe to watch it all. I've been mostly watching the ice skating events (figure, dance, speed), but I simply don't like hockey.

It also gripes me that NBC replays its daytime coverage in the evening, so we non-subscribing peons are really getting the short end of the stick. And there's my soapbox for the day. :backing
 
I haven't watched at all... except one night my hubby had on curling, so I watched that in a confused daze for about 15 minutes. I usually love the winter olympics too, especially the ice skating, but I just don't turn the TV on anymore.
 
We watch every night. I'm not a huge sports person, but I LOVE watching the Olympics. I think it's because it's so varied, everyone is cheering everyone, and the athletes are amazing! I always am sad when it ends.
 
I went to the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Let me tell you, I have never been to anything more exciting in my life. I went to volleyball, velodrome bike racing, and baseball ( season pass: a doubleheader every day for eight days. It was amazing!). I think the bike racing was the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Everybody was rooting for everybody, no matter what country they were from. There was such comraderie between all the spectators simply happy to be at the Olympics that it was the best experience of my life.
 
We started off strong - but it's fizzled a bit over here, just because we have so much going on all of a sudden. My daughter loves the curling so if she knows that will be aired she's glued to the TV. We've watched ski jumping, some biatholons, lots of snowboarding, some skeleton, some ice hockey and some figure skating.
 
Might have had an hour or so on last weekend. Luge was on but I only watched the USA guys.

I really don't care about the Olympics that much any more that I need to spend hours watching it and with the time difference between South Korea and the east coast of the USA, I knew the TV coverage would be lackluster (IMO). There are only a couple of sports that mildly interest me and I'm not going to sit and watch hours of coverage to hopefully see what I like.
 
I am usually an Olympics person, but this year I had NO interest in it, and my husband was totally in to it and had it on all the time. He'd leave the room and leave it on. I'd switch it off. Have no idea what was going on with me this year!
 
This is the first year my kids are really into it, so we're watching a lot of Olympics. I am heavily invested in Canada's figure skating team. I wanted better for Patrick Chan (he always seems to flub at the Olympics but is amazing in every other venue). And, I'm looking forward to Katelyn Osmond and Gabrielle Daleman, our women's figure skaters. But, last night and this morning, everything is about Virtue and Moir. And how are they not a couple?? How??
 
Juliestcyr said:
This is the first year my kids are really into it, so we're watching a lot of Olympics. I am heavily invested in Canada's figure skating team. I wanted better for Patrick Chan (he always seems to flub at the Olympics but is amazing in every other venue). And, I'm looking forward to Katelyn Osmond and Gabrielle Daleman, our women's figure skaters. But, last night and this morning, everything is about Virtue and Moir. And how are they not a couple?? How??
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I don’t understand how any of the figure skating teams or ice dance teams are not a couple. I think it would be so hard to be that close to someone and spend that much time together and NOT be a couple.
 
We don't even have broadcast t.v. in this un-sporty household. :) My daughter and I caught a tiny glimpse of (I think) some kind of skiing last week while in a restaurant that has a t.v.. I am only vaguely aware that the Olympics is going on; same with Super Bowl (that used to be a wonderful Scrap Orchard event to me! LOL) and other major sporting events. I usually only know when someone mentions them on Facebook or in threads like this. :D

edited to add: My daughter was made aware of these Olympics because she is a fan of Yuuri on Ice, the anime show, so a lot of other fans of the show are posting ice skating stuff from the Olympics on her Tumblr feed.
 
We watch it in the evening and usually watch it on On Demand. We can watch the events we like that way. Ice skating is our favorite, and we watched snowboarding so we could watch Shaun White, who won the Gold!
 
I watch it on my iPad as I scrap in the evenings - hubs does not enjoy watching them ... ice skating has always been my favorite. I remember watching it with our son when he was young - we went to Chicago to watch the Olympic All Stars skate one year LONG ago!

When we were visiting our son and his family Sunday evening, he told me that they had been watching the Olympics earlier in the week and that Harper, who is 4 1/2, said she loved the skating. Jacob made the comment that "Gramma Jill likes ice skating too" and Harper got really (!) excited and was happy when she said "Yea!! Gramma Jill can teach me how to ice skate then!" LOL - big difference between WATCHING and DOING it!
 
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