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Bored & watching the Olympic coverage. Must say, men's gymanstics is pretty interesting. The kid from Great Britian that just won a medal was a little cutie! Guess I could be watching something worse than young guys with toned bods. Too bad they're so short!

i know what you mean, i also like to watch platform diving because it´s so pretty

@LittleSister...I agree with you about the diving. Gymanstics and diving are usually the only things I watch, unless they decide to televise the equestrian events, which they usually don't. If they do, it's usually at a weird time.

today they showed it some time around six but the commentator was really weird. something like "the horses ears stand up like antennas"

Damn! That was probably late morning or early afternoon for me. I keep forgetting that the games are even on. Hmmm...never heard anyone compare a horse's ears to antennae before.

watching sports is extremely boring

Whenever i have the chance i do enjoy watching women's gymnastics and swimming jumps... i mean, it's just art.

The female body, that is.

Generally though i don't spend that much tissue watching them as when i was younger...

Little_Sister wrote: i know what you mean, i also like to watch platform diving because it´s so pretty

Who remembers when that one diver hit the head on the platform and pluged the 30 feet like a dead albatros?


Oh, and Dei: True what you say there. I guess many boys are happy about haing a TV set in their rooms.

Not really into the Olympics as such, but if you (attempt) to play sport like I do you can empathise and admire someone's skill, dexterity and determination to Be The Best Of The Best.

Or is that Top Gun?

eotunun wrote:
Oh, and Dei: True what you say there. I guess many boys are happy about haing a TV set in their rooms.

boys is the right choice of word. since they use girls for "womans gymnastics".

bunch of arse

True that, I can't watch it for a long period of time.

Then again, I think it is still much more interesting to watch than say the Tour de France, EK football or bloody tennis.

As opposed to the three sports I mentioned, Olympic sporters really TRY to do their best, thus earning my respect.

Otherwise, I was pretty disappointed when China completely failed to smack two divers in the concrete slab during Synchrone Diving


IZ.

Norman Hunter wrote:Not really into the Olympics as such, but if you (attempt) to play sport like I do you can empathise and admire someone's skill, dexterity and determination to Be The Best Of The Best.

Or is that Top Gun?

more like under the gun

eotunun wrote:Who remembers when that one diver hit the head on the platform and pluged the 30 feet like a dead albatros?

Greg Louganis.

eot: i always thought i couldn't possibly be the only one

Little Sister: Any attractive woman is actually a girl to me...in this particular sense

the medal race in the 49ers class was total carnage and the winners with borrowed equipment (TV not really dealing with it all only added to the spectacle

A theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama isn't necessarily going to be any more democratic than external Chinese rule...

markfiend wrote:A theocracy ruled by the Dalai Lama isn't necessarily going to be any more democratic than external Chinese rule...

But...it would certainly be a less violent one. And less opposed.

Just playing devil's advocate.

Given the current Dalai Lama's views as I understand them, he's pretty pro-democracy.

Hom_Corleone wrote:

Aye! - I thought we had put all of this Olympics stuff 'to bed' with your previous thread ... ?

Oh well ...

i just watched the female-volley players bums....does that count?

Certainly not! - A healthy activity for functioning males!

psichonaut wrote:i just watched the female-volley players bums....does that count?

did "they" played well ?

Bartek wrote:

psichonaut wrote:i just watched the female-volley players bums....does that count?

did "they" played well ?

...mmmmm....not.....too covered