RE: Why were the Olympics so lame this summer..

ranbarts2 wrote:

The next Olmpics in Rio will be an hour time difference so there will not be the same issue.

unfortunately i bet youre wrong

I thought the small bore rifle, prone event was incredibly exciting

There was an Olympics this year? From watching tv, I was under the impression that there was just a big women's beach volleyball tournament going on in London at the end of the summer.

Because you are an loooser, it's called projection

1.Because you are American and would never admit to liking something from where your ancestors came from

2. You were not there. I went to a sold out morning session and there was a wall of noise following the runners around every heat. Went to Paralympics morning sesssion same thing. Has any Olympics sold as many tickets and had such a good atmosphere

Athletics is far from the most popular sport here but were still millions of people wanting to go to the Olympics

I too was there - saw 6 different sports from handball to greco roman wrestling. It was electric - every venue, every sport, every day was the same story. People revelling in the spectacle.

The morning Athletics session I attended too had 80,000 people in the stadium.

Amazing, and made me proud to be British.

If the OP only viewed the Olympics through the lense of US TV coverage, and wasn't actually in attendance at any of the events, I would think he's safer to pass comment on the TV coverage rather than the Olympics themselves.

disgruntled with big events wrote:

big let down.

That's a silly judgment!!

So boring when L.A. sends 100 T&F athletes to every damn Olys and again L.A. won 17 of 49 USATF medals at London 2012. If other parts of California and could win as much then maybe we can see a parade in our town.

Dennis Reynolds wrote:

Bad Wigins every post of yours I ever read makes me think you are a mentally unstable individual with some serious emotional problems.

Probably because you're too illiterate to sense the tone of a comment.

It's a joke, dumbshit. How you and two other idiots managed to be offended by it is a mystery, but since you just flamed me, I'm glad you were offended.

NO Parade here wrote:

So boring when L.A. sends 100 T&F athletes to every damn Olys and again L.A. won 17 of 49 USATF medals at London 2012. If other parts of California and could win as much then maybe we can see a parade in our town.

You shouldn't have raided BALCO.

Frightened Inmate # 5 wrote:

I too was there - saw 6 different sports from handball to greco roman wrestling. It was electric - every venue, every sport, every day was the same story. People revelling in the spectacle.

The morning Athletics session I attended too had 80,000 people in the stadium.

Amazing, and made me proud to be British.

If the OP only viewed the Olympics through the lense of US TV coverage, and wasn't actually in attendance at any of the events, I would think he's safer to pass comment on the TV coverage rather than the Olympics themselves.

^This. US TV coverage was awful. The announcers weren't even in the same league as the BBC announcers. Attempting to find live coverage of the events I wanted to see on the NBC Olympics website was too hard. Here in the US, it was hours and hours of swimming, diving, and water polo with some beach volleyball and regular volleyball thrown in. At least, that was my perception.