What's the best olympic event?

[CharlieAddict]

Most of the interest at this year's olympics isn't going to centre around the events (well, other than how they are going to get rid of the Beijing pollution in time to produce air suitable for such sporting events, and how the triathletes are going to swim in filthy chinese rivers), but outside them. The protests, the masses of foreigners arriving in China, and how they will react to all the spitting, shouting, shoving, etc. The ripoffs, ooh so much so much...

It's going to be very very amusing!

i heard the government were giving the locals 'manner' lessons!

my gosh...march time, i'm off to me dad dad's home village in china!!!

 

[twistedAM]

Boxing,never gets enough coverage.

TYhat's cos UK TV coverage is heavily dictated by the sports we do well in. One year I was in Ireland during the Olympics and the coverage much was more diverse on RTE as they have no medals interest.
In Britain, if someone is going to win a medal in say curling duirng the inter Olympics, it becomes a primetime telly.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

i heard the government were giving the locals 'manner' lessons!

my gosh...march time, i'm off to me dad dad's home village in china!!!

Whereabouts is it?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

TYhat's cos UK TV coverage is heavily dictated by the sports we do well in. One year I was in Ireland during the Olympics and the coverage much was more diverse on RTE as they have no medals interest.
In Britain, if someone is going to win a medal in say curling duirng the inter Olympics, it becomes a primetime telly.

This is much the same as China... I was here during the Athens 2004 olympics and they just showed, about 10,000 times a day, replays of the Chinese shooter beating the American shooter, and the Chinese guy winning the hurdling...

It's going to be HILARIOUS if anyone Japanese wins gold at the Beijing olympics...

 

[CharlieAddict]

i think it's wong molain or wong lain.

where are you again?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

i think it's wong molain or wong lain.

where are you again?

Dalian right up near North Korea

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Gymnastics and Diving

 

[CharlieAddict]

Dalian right up near North Korea

wow! i don't know where we will be. may drop you a line if we're near.
the problem with china is that it's so fuckin' massive!

i'm gonna see how much time we have there.
gonna check out HK and vietnam.
can't wait to eat pho with the locals!

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

why don't the olympic shaman or directors or whatever they're called face up to the fact that there are new activities out there which command a far bigger following than say, synchronised swimming or whatever and are as much a sport as anything else, like skateboarding or BMX? what does it take to get a sport recognised and into the olympics?

BMX is in for Beijing and London...at the expense of 2 track cycling medals which has pissed a fair few people off but its there nontheless.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

synchronised diving.

brilliantly pointless and cracks along at a tedium-free rate.

lol yeah, i remember watching it with family before. I like some of them but can't be bothered listing any. 100metres mens final in athletics is the main one i check out for some reason.

 

[Dillinger4]

I am quite of a fan of that horse disco.

Also known as Dressage.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Dressage sucks lol.

 

[Herbsman.]

Being a cyclist I'm gonna vote for track cycling.

But without the bias I'd say gymnastics.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Oh yeh gymnastics can be good.

 

[Dillinger4]

Dressage sucks lol.

You just don't get it.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

That's a good thing though.

 

[Dillinger4]

That's a good thing though.

Only if you want to miss out on dancing horses.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Yes, yes i do want to miss out on them!! Would hardly call it 'dancing'.

 

[Dillinger4]

Yes, yes i do want to miss out on them!! Would hardly call it 'dancing'.

No its gone down hill since the heady days of 1970s disco.

You need to see the underground version, where they play techno and that.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Do they do drugs to?

 

[Dillinger4]

They are all on Ket innit.

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Ahh, sounds interesting!!

Sort of...!

 

[astral]

Sailing! Surprisingly high medal return for the UK, but disappointingly little coverage.

 

[brianx]

I still go for the Heptathlon. Amazonians running, jumping and throwing things what more do you want? The field events are always good but the BBC don't like to show them unless a plucky Brit is involved.

 

[stavros]

CYCLING ...and since it's a sport that britain actually has a chance of medals in, we should see a bit of it on TV.

OTM. We're pretty much regarded as the best track country in the world, although Chris Hoy can't defend his Kilo title as they've dropped it from the bill. The normal road race doesn't have the fascination of the major 3 week tours, but the road time trial will be damn good too. It was Chris Boardman destroying everyone in the Individual Pursuit in 1992 that made me first love cycling.

 

[Dr. Furface]

Weightlifting. The Olympics is the only time it ever gets shown on tv, but it's really dramatic. Some of the weights that those guys lift are incredible - up to and even in excess of 3 times their own body weight. I like the fact that, although there are judges, they are just there to ensure that the weights are lifted properly, but the result doesn't depend on their markings, unlike a lot of Olympic sports. I have no doubt that many if not all of them take steroids (the lifters, that is, not the judges!) but there's hardly any athletic events these days that are drug free anyway, so what the hell, it's still great to watch.

 

[Belushi]

The Boxing.