Vancouver, Here We Come!
I do not watch sports. Ever. I’m not a fairweather fan; I’m an indoor unenthusiast. I did go through a long figure-skating period, which has all but died. But every four years, I resurrect my dormant sportie. The time has come again, and in 26 days the Winter Olympics will begin in Vancouver.
For the past few months, Canada has gone Olympic-mad. I only live in Toronto (which is feeling more than a bit crotchety about the whole thing) and even we’ve caught on to the wintry spirit. I mean, the last time the Olympics were in the land of poutine was more than 20 years ago, so hey, we’re revelling in it.
I’m kind of bummed – okay, really bummed – that I’ll be on the other side of the world during Canada’s moment of glory. On the plus side, CTV is running live online coverage of all the events — vive l’internet! On the down side, it’s not quite the same as seeing your country buy out all the merchandise, and moan about the Americans winning ninety gazillion medals, and live out the feeling that for sixteen days, the world’s eyes are on Canada.
Oh well. I’ve caved in and bought the Olympic red mittens (1.5 million pairs sold out in a week, or something ridiculous like that), and when the figure skating and hockey are on I’ll be glued to the computer screen. Go Team Canada!
Do you watch the Olympics? If you do, do you prefer the summer or winter ones? If you don’t, why not?
– Jean AAR
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I love the Winer Olympics. I think in the vastness of nothing to watch on TV, the Winter Olympics provide much entertainment for me. Really looking forward to them. And I don’t watch sports either, with the exception of the Vikings lately with Brett Favre. Have a small crush on him…
I, too, watch no sports–well, except perhaps for an annual bit of Wimbledon or the U.S. Open. The local news nightly sports report is what the mute on the remote was invented for. However, the Olympics, both summer and winter, are a whole different category of wonderfulness. Growing up in Wisconsin as I did and loving winter as I do, I am naturally biased toward competition performed outdoors with frostbite on your nose, but I also enjoy the endearing silliness of pushing stones about with brooms on an indoor ice rink. The Chinese opening ceremony will be a hard act to follow, but I’m confident our lovely neighbors to the north will be up to the task.
Yay for the Winter Olympics! I love the figure skating, of course, but also the ski jumping, moguls, slalom, and speed skating.
In our house the conflict is, the Olympics start the same weekend as Daytona!
I love the Olympics, both winter and summer. For the Winter Olympics, I particularly enjoy ice skating, but will watch a whole host of other events as well.
Love the mittens, by the way.
Jean: Fortunately the US tends to do only so-so in the Winter Olympics vs. the Summer Olympics so I think the medals will be more evenly split among many countries. I love the mittens!
I hardly ever watch sports on tv but love the winter Olympics and try to watch as much as I can, but then again I am Dutch and we have the best skaters ;-) I also try not to miss any figure skating.