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Post by Enchant on Feb 13, 2006 7:48:51 GMT -5
WHo here is watching them? Who are you rooting for? Which sports do you watch?
I love watching the Down hill, they are so fun, adn they go by fast...lol...I will occasionally watch the hockey...
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Post by Aaron on Feb 13, 2006 17:19:04 GMT -5
I'm watching skatting. Sad that Kwan bowed out.
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Post by elena on Feb 13, 2006 19:22:57 GMT -5
I've been watching bits and peices, but I tend to like the summer Olympics better.
I saw the opening ceremony... Anyone figured out why they were playing American pop tunes from the 80's while the athletes walked in?
I mostly watch the figure skating, or whatever happens to be on when I'm eating dinner...
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Post by Enchant on Feb 17, 2006 8:16:42 GMT -5
Seems the Olympics aren't getting the veiwers it was expecting. Apparently, the business that paid mucho dinero are wanting to get a free spot as compensation for the lack of viewers that they were expected to reach. The games have been over shadowed by the popular shows American Idol and Anatomy Grey.
Have we started to loose interest? I remember the the Olympics as a popular, presitgise and exciting event, but seems people have lost the enthusiasim of it all...
what are your thoughts on this?
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Post by Aaron on Feb 17, 2006 9:06:09 GMT -5
I think there isn't that much to make you want to watch. There isn't any true stars that people know. Yeah this is the first team to have gotten all the other medel's going into the olympics but I don't know who they are. Honestly it doesn't appear like missing out ..so yea I'd say other things are keeping them away.
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Post by elena on Feb 17, 2006 19:49:12 GMT -5
Well, one thing I was thinking about the other day is this: I've seen more ads already for the 2008 Bejing olympics than I have for Torino. So some of it has to be just the lack of advertising.
And then winter olympics always have a much narrower appeal than summer. Summer has al lthe popular team sports: soccer, volleyball, blanking out here... But you get the idea. Then there's the individual sports that get a lot of press during the Olympics like swimming, which is definitely one of my favorites to watch. With a lot of these, you don't even have to know much about the sport to enjoy it, whereas with a lot of the variations on skiing and such there's such a complicated scoring system that its impossible to know what a good score is unless you're one of the sport's devotees.
There just isn't anything incredible expected from Torino, and then all these American athletes the press has been pushing haen;t been doing so well: Bode Miller has screwed up several events, Michelle Kwan isn't skating afterall. There's lots of others, those are just two examples I can think of.
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Post by Aaron on Feb 18, 2006 5:15:46 GMT -5
Well, one thing I was thinking about the other day is this: I've seen more ads already for the 2008 Bejing olympics than I have for Torino. So some of it has to be just the lack of advertising. And then winter olympics always have a much narrower appeal than summer. Summer has al lthe popular team sports: soccer, volleyball, blanking out here... But you get the idea. Then there's the individual sports that get a lot of press during the Olympics like swimming, which is definitely one of my favorites to watch. With a lot of these, you don't even have to know much about the sport to enjoy it, whereas with a lot of the variations on skiing and such there's such a complicated scoring system that its impossible to know what a good score is unless you're one of the sport's devotees. There just isn't anything incredible expected from Torino, and then all these American athletes the press has been pushing haen;t been doing so well: Bode Miller has screwed up several events, Michelle Kwan isn't skating afterall. There's lots of others, those are just two examples I can think of. This is true if it weren't for Me going to see a movie sometime in Januaray I wouldn't even know it's on. Cause I didn't see ANYTHING hardly for it. Which is sad. Should be publicitizing the crude out of it 6 months before..definetly 3 months before. Honestly I know it's like every 4 years but I don't keep up with it. Not one that goes "Olympic's year".
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Post by elena on Feb 19, 2006 0:17:12 GMT -5
Yeah, I was really only aware of it for two reasons: the Newsweek issue featuring Bode Miller and that I'm actually going ot Italy this summer. Otherwise, I really wouldn't have noticed, or would have found out by seeing it on one evening. Its really kind of strange.
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Post by Aaron on Feb 19, 2006 0:21:01 GMT -5
yeah so they are getting what they wanted. You don't tell people they dont' watch. Sorry but Hype sells.
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