Do you Prefer the Summer or Winter Olympics?

14 years ago

I've been loving the Olympics. Watching the speed, skill and danger of the skiing (all forms), speed-skating, snowboarding, etc, is fantastic.

These athletes perform with such reckless abandon without any thought to their own *mortality*.

Summer olympics don't do it for me. Swimming, gymnastics, track and field, doesn't have the same mesmerizing effect on me.

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gemini40
14 years ago
Oh I agree.winter over summer always.
Another thing about the summer Olympics is simply...it's summer. I am not going to be sitting in front of a TV set watching, when I could be outside enjoying the sun and warm air after being stuck inside all winter.
Winter Olympics = Captive Audience
linda_in_iowa
14 years ago
Winter for me to. I used to downhill ski and I love to watch the skiers but I also enjoy the ice skating. I watched the last summer Olympics only because a local gal, Shawn Johnson, is a gymnast and won the Gold Medal.
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alisande
14 years ago
Definitely winter. Although I used to enjoy the diving and gymnastics, and probably would again if I took the time to watch.
bee0hio
14 years ago
I wouldn't want to choose, but I do think the winter has more "thrill factor". I love both.
evatx
14 years ago
I prefer winter Olympics.
zeetera
14 years ago
Summer for me. Just can't get into the winter Olympics this year.
renee_fl
14 years ago
Winter.
jannie
14 years ago
Another winter.
cynic
14 years ago
Each has their attractions I guess but winter has more for me. Between bobsled, luge, skiing, skating, snowboarding etc, there's just so many more possibilities of someone wiping out and flopping down a hill like a dogfish out of water.

I do appreciate xertain events of gymnastics though. Some big flops happen there too and there's a lot of practice involved and talent too.

I never watch the Olympics for very long at a time. If something is on that is of interest I'll watch it, but I don't schedule my day by it. NBC isn't making much off from me.
carol_in_california
14 years ago
Summer....love the track and field events.
Marilyn Sue McClintock
14 years ago
I will have to say, I don't watch either.

Sue
kacram
14 years ago
winter
danihoney
14 years ago
More Winter than Summer, but I love to watch the swimming events of the Summer Olympics.
This year I'm ready for all the luge events to be over. All the crashes are so upsetting to me. I mean all events on that track, not just luge.
stephanie_in_ga
14 years ago
I have a slight preference for summer Olympics just because gymnastics is my favorite of all Olympic events. But I enjoy the fast, outdoor winter events, like luge and bobsled, freestyle moguls (very cool) and downhill skiing. I *loved* watching Shawn White and the other snowboarders and watching Lindsey Vann ski.
Marcia Thornley
14 years ago
Winter
clubm
14 years ago
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Adella Bedella
14 years ago
I prefer summer. Honestly, I don't watch much of either.
joyfulguy
14 years ago
When I consider that all of the participants have trained long and hard, usually with little help and that the margins between winning an losing are very thin, I find it rather hard to develop enthusiasm. As only the gold medalists in certain attractive sports will go on to become multi-millionaires through endorsements, that doesn't turn me on much.

And when I remember that the bosses that run the Olympic show live high on the hog ... but the peons that do the work (and take the injuries) don't ... it reduces my enthusiasm even more.

Add to which that the whole shebang is costing 6 - 7 billion or more ... when about a sixth of the world is permanently hungry (and have minimal education and lousy healthcare) the thing seems to me to lack certain validity.

Not only that - a major part of the enterprise is financed by various governmental agencies ...

... while some of the major official sponsors of this enterprise that's claimed to be greatly related to health and fitness ...

... are Coca Cola and Macdonalds ...

... why should massive amounts of governmental dollars (when the governments are darned near broke) go to subsidize these private enterprise agencies?

Why do they need welfare?

Also - I'd like to see even a small portion of that official funding go to support amateur sport, encouraging the mass of our youth to get more involved with fitness and better health.

You've hard how increasing numbers of our kids are suffering from juvenile diabetes? Overweight?

It seems to me that we've got our priorities upside down.

In addition, reports of the quarter-finals of our men's hockey playdowns (conducted on the part of the Canadians largely by the high-priced professionals) were splashed all over the front pages of some of our major newspapers ...

... while the report of the women's hockey team winning their gold medal ...

... was displaced (relegated?) to small pictures on about page 4.

Plus - one of the major sports in which the women wanted to be included - was it cross-coutry skiing? - was not allowed to participate at all ...

... but the men's sure did!

It seems to me that that stinks.

ole joyful

P.S. There was a report the other day that the cost is about $4,000. to every Canadian taxpayer.

o j
czech_chick
14 years ago
Summer

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