Topic: Why is nobody talking about the Olympics ?

[AV]

I'm not heavy into it, but passing by if USA is playing I watch for a moment.

Mike Phelps is amazing with 8 gold medals this year.

i watched USA beat the crap out of China in basketball and baseball. Stupid china beaned like 5 americans so the fact we won by 8 points is satisfying.

Watching your nation dominate another nation in sports is cool. Even more fun to beat that team at home.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Not enough naked?

[Bill Aurion]

Not a fan of watching sports, even though I partake in a bunch myself... *shrug*

[vudu]

I don't know what you're talking about--Mario won't STFU about this game. 

Mike Phelps is amazing with 8 gold medals this year.

Psh.  He won the same gold medal 8 times.  The guy can swim, I'm not taking this away from him, but does the Olympics really need a gadzillion swimming events?

[nickmitch]

I kind of agree with you there. I get that there are different styles of swimming, but 8 events is over the top. Swimming is the only sport where you can do that. Why can't other sports be like that? Why are singles and doubles ping-pong tied together?

[NWR_insanolord]

There are four different kinds of swimming with different distances and the various relays and individual medley, I don't see how that's over the top. Almost all the swimmers were only in a few of the events which indicates that there are significant differences between the different events.

[GoldenPhoenix]

I don't participate in viewing archaic sports.

[Smakian]

Yeah, I've nothing against people who are into the Olympics, but I've examined the event as a whole, and asked myself, "Do I care about this at all?" and the answer is no. I just have no interest personally.

[NWR_insanolord]

To me the Olympics are like Soccer in that they're sports that I can get interested in once every 4 years but not anymore frequently than that, except Curling, that should be on at least once a week.

[Svevan]

The Olympics committee is generally corrupt, and this year only proved it. I usually watch with passing interest each year it's on, but this year I avoided it entirely. Major athletics like these are a joke anyways (for instance, there's no way to fully test for drugs on any of the competitors), and China has run an Olympics farm (read: concentration camp) "training" their people to win win win or else they don't get to see their families. Overall, I like the idea of many countries coming together to "unite" in something as beautiful as athletics, but it's become such a dishonest, money-driven enterprise, and if there's one place that the Western world should NOT unite in, it's fucking CHINA.

[blackfootsteps]

The more swimming events the better, it's where we get all our medals. If someone was good enough they could theoretically do the same as Phelps in athletics.

Watching your nation dominate another nation in sports is cool. Even more fun to beat that team at home.

Too bad your nation is the one being dominated. I'm actually disappointed the US is losing to China, mainly for the reasons stated by Svevan. For a laugh: Please Ignore the Communism.

And I can't believe that the Brits are beating us. The end of the world is nigh.

[UncleBob]

if there's one place that the Western world should NOT unite in, it's fucking CHINA.

No, we should just send all of our jobs and money there and have them send us all their cheap, lead coated, plastic crap.

[Arbok]

In response to the topic title, probably because those interested, like me, are just watching them instead.

[Svevan]

if there's one place that the Western world should NOT unite in, it's fucking CHINA.

No, we should just send all of our jobs and money there and have them send us all their cheap, lead coated, plastic crap.

QFT. The only reason we aren't boycotting the Olympics this year is because of the huge financial hit to NBC and its sponsors, most of whom have business ties with China. So instead of protecting America's ideals through a powerful pro-human rights boycott, our country has decided to protect its economic interest. WAY TO GO USA.

[vudu]

China has run an Olympics farm (read: concentration camp) "training" their people to win win win or else they don't get to see their families.

It's not that I don't believe you, (and maybe this is common knowledge, but since I haven't been paying one iota of attention I wouldn't know) but can you provide a source for this?  It's news (and a little disturbing) to me.

[GoldenPhoenix]

China has run an Olympics farm (read: concentration camp) "training" their people to win win win or else they don't get to see their families.

It's not that I don't believe you, (and maybe this is common knowledge, but since I haven't been paying one iota of attention I wouldn't know) but can you provide a source for this?  It's news (and a little disturbing) to me.

I hear they also eat babies who do not meet their standards to be a future athletes. They also torture puppies, bunnies, and fish. All while they are sharpening the horns growing out their head.

[EasyCure]

China has run an Olympics farm (read: concentration camp) "training" their people to win win win or else they don't get to see their families.

It's not that I don't believe you, (and maybe this is common knowledge, but since I haven't been paying one iota of attention I wouldn't know) but can you provide a source for this?  It's news (and a little disturbing) to me.

I hear they also eat babies who do not meet their standards to be a future athletes.

when the boy was born, like all chinese he was inspected. If he had been small or puny, or sickly and mishapen, he would have been discarded..

[nickmitch]

All Chinese athletes were created in laboratories across China.

[Caliban]

Drugs? No, thank you.

[DAaaMan64]

You all suck http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/26202528#26202528

Thats a good video on china's treatment of athletes. However they are rewarded in Gold if they get gold in the Olympics.

[Caliban]

These "athletic camps" have been in existence for quite some time I would say, maybe since the 50s or 60s if not earlier, and not just in China.
Each country has its own way of reaching its goals even if they are morally unjustified.

[Athrun Zala]

mainly because my nation failed miserably >_>

[redgiemental]

Thats really fucking strange. Why are they so obsessed?

[Stogi]

World Cup >>>>>>>>>>>> Olympics.

[nickmitch]

I don't even see why they have Olympic soccer with the World Cup and all.