Your favorite Olympic event

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ZoSo
I saw the men's 4x200m relay and I thought it was amazing. Another gold for Team USA.
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So you must have missed the 4x100m relay then ;)
 
Well all I can say is I don't particularly like that Phelps kid. :p

I'll have to say i like the beach volleyball. :)
 
Personally, I like watching the rings in the gymnastics. The strength those guys have leave me in awe.
 
DODGE the VIPER
Well all I can say is I don't particularly like that Phelps kid. :p
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neither do i, so i was really REALLY happy when thorpie beat him.


I LOVE THE SWIMMING the rivalry between the Aussies and yanks is fun. i love the 1500m freestyle, guarenteed gold medal for australia

i also like the basketball, beach volleyball :dopey: , hockey, shooting, judo and cycling.

i also like any sport that australia does well in.

GO AUSTRALIA!!!!
 
duh....track and feild.

my cousin and i are discus throwers. im in high school though. but, he is the best in the ncaa and ALMOST made the olympics. bah, but at least his friend hannes is there....for south africa though.

discus owns everything. too bad nbc doesnt give a 🤬 to show any good coverage. they better show every single thrower uninterupted, or im gonna start with the hate mail. :D

i wonder if fazekas will defeat alekna this year. heh.
 
I like watching the cycling.
 
Badminton,Gymnastics,Football (not soccer),Hockey(the type everyone likes to play not that cretin version on ice where fights take place) and 100 m final.
 
I'm a huge fan of the Olympics myself, and like Sage I've watched nearly every event! It's hard to pick my favorite sport, although Swimming has proved the most exciting so far.

MazKid
I like the gymnastics...there's more room for error in them, and it's frankly hilarious when someone screws up.

I just about died laughing several nights ago when this Ukraine woman was doing the high and low bars...she went from the high to the low, and was supposed to go right back up to high, but she kinda didn't, and slammed her feet on the ground because the low bar is, well low. Also when they do the floor gymnastics and go out of bounds.
The Japanese just killed everyone last night at the stuff. Very interesting to watch.

I was also watching the swimming stuff...it's ok, never a big fan of swimming(because I suck at it).
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You've got a strange sense of humor, MazKid. Those gymnasts train HARD nearly every day for years and years in preparation for one performance, and then the one time it matters, they fail. All that work, for nothing. How anything could be funny about that I'll never know.
 
Jordan
I'm a huge fan of the Olympics myself, and like Sage I've watched nearly every event! It's hard to pick my favorite sport, although Swimming has proved the most exciting so far.

You've got a strange sense of humor, MazKid. Those gymnasts train HARD nearly every day for years and years in preparation for one performance, and then the one time it matters, they fail. All that work, for nothing. How anything could be funny about that I'll never know.
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I don't like any of the olympic events. To me, they're boring. I just don't have the patience to watch them.
 
Someone who thinks Olympic events are boring, and don't like to watch sport must be a women. But with a name like Kevin I doubt it. Sought it out bruv!
 
Carlover325
I don't like any of the olympic events. They're boring. Plus I don't like watch any types of sports. IMO, they're all stupid.
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What's so stupid about hard work? I don't mind that you don't like watching it, but to say that it's all stupid is stupid in itself (like I mentioned, I hate watching baseball, but I give baseball players all due credit for the work they put into the sport). As a long-distance runner myself, I'd say that it takes just as much mental energy to compete fiercely in a sport as it does to compete in academics – in other words, it's not just about having the biggest muscles.
 
Carlover325
I don't like any of the olympic events. They're boring. Plus I don't like watch any types of sports. IMO, they're all stupid.
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ignorant fool. you have no idea. you should maybe play some sports to get some newfound respect for them.

otherwise just sit at your computer in placenta california. (pun on that 'girl' suggestion).

though, girls work JUST as hard as men do, and thats no lie. every olympian is truly an amazing athlete. for example, to think that throwers in general are just good because they are strong is an incredibly stupid statement. the mastery of the technical aspect of any event is what makes winners. i believe all olympic athletes are more than just that. they are artists of their craft. the amount of respect they deserve is more than i, myself, could provide.

perhaps that is why every athlete at olympic village is RESTRICTED TO ONLY 1300 cokes, and free all you can eat anything. and some more free stuff.

lol. go olympics!
 
Cycling and Baseball are my favorites, but due to my lack of cable, I cant watch either. I keep pretty content with swimming, though. I have the utmost respect for swimmers as I can't swim for ****.
 
Omnis
ignorant fool. you have no idea. you should maybe play some sports to get some newfound respect for them.

otherwise just sit at your computer in placenta california. (pun on that 'girl' suggestion).

though, girls work JUST as hard as men do, and thats no lie. every olympian is truly an amazing athlete. for example, to think that throwers in general are just good because they are strong is an incredibly stupid statement. the mastery of the technical aspect of any event is what makes winners. i believe all olympic athletes are more than just that. they are artists of their craft. the amount of respect they deserve is more than i, myself, could provide.

perhaps that is why every athlete at olympic village is RESTRICTED TO ONLY 1300 cokes, and free all you can eat anything. and some more free stuff.

lol. go olympics!
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I'm sorry, I didn't word it very well, stupid was, well... a stupid word to use. I'll fix my previous reply.
 
Carlover325
my opinions may differ from yours, but that doesn't mean I'm ignorant.
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you're right, it doesnt.what makes you ignorant is saying that those peoples life work is stupid.

back to the subject, my fav summer olympic events are probably pole vault and shotput(the first because i like to watch them fall, and the second becuase i participate myself).I'm more into the winter olyimpics,being from canada and all.
 
I've always enjoyed watching the swimming events. That's due in part to my own personal competition swimming.
I've also taken keen interest in watching the shooting events as well as the womens softball team. (mainly due to it's the only thing on TV at 2am) The softball team has some cute girls, :dopey: and they are unbeaten and whoopin some serious ass! 👍

Originally posted by Jimmy
And why is equestrian?
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I've wondered the exact same thing. Why an event that includes animals, I'll never understand.
Shouldn't any olympic event be a man/woman in a test of skill and endurance and not an man/woman test of how well they can control an animal? Just doesn't make sense to me in the Olympic spirit of things.
 
Carlover325
I don't like being called ignorant

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I never said the olympians were stupid

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the olympics are boring, and yes IMO kind of stupid.
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Indeed not.

Saying you don't like sports - that's fine. Saying you won't watch the Olympics - that's all good too. Saying that any type of sport is "stupid" is an amazingly stunted viewpoint.

I play hockey, badminton and football (of the kind with feet involved) regularly. Are they all stupid? Should I give them up, get no exercise and drop dead of heart disease in 15 years time?

I have the feeling you were picked on by the High School jocks as a kid.
 
Where do you get to play badminton, Famine? It was always my favorite thing to do in gym class, but I would love to get a little more involved.
 
Most of our local sports centres over here have badminton facilities. We just phone up and book 40 minutes. There's also a couple of badminton clubs around here, but they've forgotten how to have fun.
 
I hate badminton and that's why I have so much respect for it... would I watch it probably not because I picture myself back in HS playing it with badminton team players as they make me look like a damn fool.

I gotta say though, I'm not much into gymastics but what Paul Hamm did yesterday was so damn amazing! If that isn't an example of never giving up I don't know what is?!? I have been feeding off of that **** ever since then a big 👍
 
Jordan
Where do you get to play badminton, Famine? It was always my favorite thing to do in gym class, but I would love to get a little more involved.
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hey, my favorite sport in Gym class is badmitton too! I didn't even know it was an olympic sport!
 
Famine
Indeed not.

Saying you don't like sports - that's fine. Saying you won't watch the Olympics - that's all good too. Saying that any type of sport is "stupid" is an amazingly stunted viewpoint.

I play hockey, badminton and football (of the kind with feet involved) regularly. Are they all stupid? Should I give them up, get no exercise and drop dead of heart disease in 15 years time?

I have the feeling you were picked on by the High School jocks as a kid.
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Sorry everyone, I didn't mean to offend anyone if I did. And actually I'm still a kid, well 15, so a teenager. And I don't get picked on by the jocks, some of them are my best friends, and they know I don't like watching sports, it isn't the sports themselves, it's just that I don't have the patience to watch them, to me they get boring after half an hour or so. And again, I'm really sorry if I offended anyone, I'll reword my previous replies.
 
Event Horizon
hey, my favorite sport in Gym class is badmitton too! I didn't even know it was an olympic sport!
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:lol: did you think the same thing for table tennis? :lol:
 
One of the things that I think are amazing about the Olympics is the entire set-up a picked country needs to adhere to. IMO, Greece did an excellent job despite all the media that made the rest of the world think that they were not ready.

The thing that really made me realize this, is surprisingly, the kayak course that is in place.
To create a roaring river in the middle of an area that is normally dry, is an absolut amazing feat of engineering. And then to make the course as technically difficult as an actual class 4 river is even more amazing!
 
Just watched the men's 10,000 meter race today, and WOW! It boggles my mind how these African guys can run for a whole half hour at an average speed of over 20km/h! And the speed they all had for the last lap! I was in complete astonishment!
 
Table Tennis
Badminton
Track And Field(well, just the short distance running)
Indoor and Beach Volleyball
Shooting (I had no idea this was an event until now)

I tend to watch whatever's being covered though. I with they covered sports like Table Tennis and Badminton a lot more. I plan on going to the next summer olympics just to watch these events.
 
I like the gymnastics and the swimming, especially the relays.

The floor exercises for the women I didn't like so much since there was too much dancing.
 
Ev0
Just watched the men's 10,000 meter race today, and WOW! It boggles my mind how these African guys can run for a whole half hour at an average speed of over 20km/h! And the speed they all had for the last lap! I was in complete astonishment!
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I watched this too - 25 laps !! The Ethoipians absolutely 0wned the rest of the field. I thought it was really strange how the 2 Ethiopians were always looking back and waiting for Haile Gebrselassie, then when they realised he couldnt carry on at that pace they just bolted, and on the last lap ! Amazing, the guy who won was actually sprinting after just running 9,700 m !!

I personally love the field events in Athletics, mainly the triple jump, lots of skill needed, lots of power, its difficult to master and requires a lot of hard work strengthening specific muscles in ankles knees etc.
 
Anybody have any thoughts on the events happening?
 
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