How can you say it’s boring, the way so many have been wiping out on the ski slopes, luge, skating track, etc?
I think it’s much better with the Summer Olympics separated by 2 years from the Winter Olympics. If you want to talk overkill, does anyone else remember how we OD’d on Olympics when they had one massive dose of winter & summer in the same year?
I only watched sports when my boys were doing them…and that was gymnastics. Now my oldest boy is 50 and training his younger son in high jump; they have both been competing really well in Colorado.
i prefer winter olympics to summer olympics. i do agree that the hype often overwhelms the reality, but that happens with movies and tv (and other things) as well.
Apathy over elections is not so much the frequncy as the fact that everyone seems to become the same once they arrive there and start to enjoy the “public troth”.
I lost interest in the Olympics a LONG time ago (back when the talk was ALWAYS about the medal competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Bloc).
I was further put off when the U.S. started petitioning to have sports that were uniquely American (I somehow can’t vision that Iceland and Slovakia would likely field a very solid “Beach Volleyball” Team), and of course the pretense of it being about “amateurs doing their best” evaporated when the U.S. assembled the “Dream Team” of professionals in basketball (until then, it was only in critical condition as the Cubans kept fielding professional boxers to represent them).
What gets me though is that as much as the Olympic organizers insist on keeping to the “spirit” of the “original” Olympic competitions, they still won’t seriously consider poetry or playwrighting as part of the extravaganza.
The Olympics happen every other year only because the winter and summer Olympics are staggered. Each still occurs only every four years. So, technically, the author of this strip is incorrect. But, yeah, winter and summer used to be both in the same year. They spread them out, of course, to make more money for sponsors.
The whole Olympic Movement thing is spoiled, anyway, when they’ve allowed professional players to play in the Olympics. It became less about amateur sport accomplishment then about individual national patriotism in the quest for the most medals.
zero over 14 years ago
They could do the Summer games in the original Greek. Sadly, then they’d all be guys. Get the IOC Rules Committee on the phone….
3hourtour Premium Member over 14 years ago
..tsk…not true…
namenamename over 14 years ago
This is exactly how I feel! It’s all marketing and yawns now. I can’t wait for this interruption of my life called “olympics” to be over!
jerzy over 14 years ago
How can you say it’s boring, the way so many have been wiping out on the ski slopes, luge, skating track, etc?
I think it’s much better with the Summer Olympics separated by 2 years from the Winter Olympics. If you want to talk overkill, does anyone else remember how we OD’d on Olympics when they had one massive dose of winter & summer in the same year?
vldazzle over 14 years ago
I only watched sports when my boys were doing them…and that was gymnastics. Now my oldest boy is 50 and training his younger son in high jump; they have both been competing really well in Colorado.
yyyguy over 14 years ago
i prefer winter olympics to summer olympics. i do agree that the hype often overwhelms the reality, but that happens with movies and tv (and other things) as well.
Dapperdan61 Premium Member over 14 years ago
We have elections every other year. No wonder we have apathy about who our congress is
vldazzle over 14 years ago
Apathy over elections is not so much the frequncy as the fact that everyone seems to become the same once they arrive there and start to enjoy the “public troth”.
pschearer Premium Member over 14 years ago
What’s it been now, four days, maybe five of curling on MS-NBC? Curling!! It devalues whatever virtues the Olympics may once have had.
Wildcard24365 over 14 years ago
I lost interest in the Olympics a LONG time ago (back when the talk was ALWAYS about the medal competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Bloc).
I was further put off when the U.S. started petitioning to have sports that were uniquely American (I somehow can’t vision that Iceland and Slovakia would likely field a very solid “Beach Volleyball” Team), and of course the pretense of it being about “amateurs doing their best” evaporated when the U.S. assembled the “Dream Team” of professionals in basketball (until then, it was only in critical condition as the Cubans kept fielding professional boxers to represent them).
What gets me though is that as much as the Olympic organizers insist on keeping to the “spirit” of the “original” Olympic competitions, they still won’t seriously consider poetry or playwrighting as part of the extravaganza.
jqmcd over 14 years ago
The Olympics happen every other year only because the winter and summer Olympics are staggered. Each still occurs only every four years. So, technically, the author of this strip is incorrect. But, yeah, winter and summer used to be both in the same year. They spread them out, of course, to make more money for sponsors.
The whole Olympic Movement thing is spoiled, anyway, when they’ve allowed professional players to play in the Olympics. It became less about amateur sport accomplishment then about individual national patriotism in the quest for the most medals.
Stupid.