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Is it bad that I kind of view the Winter Olypics like John Hodgman?
I also prefer to watch the summer games. You know with sports that I have actually have participated in my life.
Yes I know I live in Alaska, but I just never really did the winter sport thing. Shh don't tell anybody, they might ask me to leave.
Aww. I *heart* the winter Olympics. Always have. When I was little I ice skated and had been to a few hockey games. I lived in Minnesota for part of my childhood. I'm sleep deprived last week and this week because of staying up for watching as much as I can.
ReplyDeleteSummer Olympics...meh. I hated running, track and field as a kid and I don't like watching it. I can swim and bike, but again I don't like watching it. Gymnastics never interested me. I usually watch the opening ceremonies, watch a few highlights, then watch the closing ceremonies.
I've never, ever cared for the Olympics. To me, it's like AMERICAN IDOL on SPEED. Who cares? Well, those Americans who tune into Idol, Survivor and all the rest. It's like a GLADIATOR FIGHT on TV and everyone watching wants blood. And/or the GOLD. It wouldnt bother me a bit if the games were cancelled at all.
ReplyDeleteGryphen did you see where O'rielly said Palin needs to go to college (Huff Post)
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WATCH Bill O'Reilly: 'Sarah Palin Needs To Go To College'
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I love skiing and snowboarding. These athletes are incredible. Love the Games. I live part-time in a small resort town, so maybe that's why. I also enjoy the Summer Games.
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!!!!! Awesome post!!!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and John and I always felt so bad about that too because I know athletes do train their whole lives for this. But now I know I'm not alone.
ps don't worry your secret is safe with me no one from Alaska will find out.....unless......wait you didn't say anything that would upset Sarah did you???????
Oh well, if they make you move you can move to Phila., Pa. Lord knows there's plenty of snow here so you'll feel right at home :-)
Olympics=Rich kids with lots of free time.
ReplyDeleteI am always happy to see the occasional athlete whose parents struggled & saved to get them lessons , coaches, & costumes.
Snow shoveling would be my best event!
I never watch the Winter Olympics. I'm with Gryph and John. Whenever I've tried I get flashbacks of my childhood. Falling on ice skates, falling on skis,
ReplyDeletefreezing and getting wind burned on sleds and always being freaked out that a hockey puck would crash through the protective glass and kill me.
But I love the summer Olympics.
While it used to be for the gold and glory, now it is all about the Benjamins. Endorsements, photo ops, 15 minutes of fame off the playing field, all that crap means more now than just doing the job and showing your best for your country.
ReplyDelete$ spoiled the whole idea of the Olympics for me.
Gooood Mooorning, Alaska...from downtown Vancouver.
ReplyDeleteZiggy Marley, INXS, medals and tears.
100,000 people chanting in the streets: "GO Canada GO!" Screams in reply - "Belarus!" and "U-S-A!"
Team USA house filled with grandparents from Florida, tired moms worried about expense and getting to Whistler, an astonishing number of curlers and families; sprinkled throughout with familiar faces you see on TV - Evan Lysacek, Nancy Kerrigan, Nina Kempel. And lotsa hockey players.
People amazed at the fact of Alaska representing the single largest number of athletes, per capita.
International volunteers from all over the world - Montreal, Ottawa, Turkey, New Zealand, Australia, Bulgaria, Denver. They all came here to do this and it couldn't happen without them.
Security is tighter than the airport. I've been frisked so many times that I'm beginning to enjoy it. There's a handsome brush-cut young man with a thick eastern European accent that I'm convinced must be KGB.
Yep, it's commercial. Yep, more than annoying; at times, flat out interfering. I'm not a corporate VIP - just an Alaskan mom. It hurt my feelings that it took me until almost midnight the night before to secure tickets to our athlete's event for our 30 Alaska family members that came all this way. Only to find two entire rows of empty seats in front us that were courtesy tickets for Teck Cominco. Ouch.
But you know what? It's the Olympics. I've watched this my entire life; even from bush Alaska. I saw Scott Hamilton and the Mahre brothers, Nadia Comaneche.
And here we are. In my wildest imaginings, I never saw myself at an Olympics with an athlete kid. Amazing. And here we are - Yupik Eskimos wandering around the Olympics.
I got a coffee and browsed a used bookstore yesterday just to kill time and almost cried to find a tattered Alaska book with my grandpa's photo in it. How about that?
Yep, it's the Olympics. And it's very very personal and very very meaningful. It's fabulous.
U-S-A!
Aw, I love curling and hockey.
ReplyDeleteOlympics = hard-working Alaskans who've sacrificed to pay for training out of state without the benefit of support and sponsorships that athletes and families from the Lower 48 enjoy.
ReplyDeleteNope, sorry, we don't market to Alaska. Alaska doesn't have enough people to rationalize the investment. Nope, sorry, we don't sponsor athletes. Nope, sorry, we're not into that sport.
...and gettin' it done anyway...
Olympics = dedicated young Alaskans setting goals and following through with determination and commitment, doing without, even when it would make more sense to quit.
I loved when Hodgman said the winter Olympics are not sports, they are drunken bar dares!
ReplyDeleteAlaska athletes working to qualify for the Olympics means that I've been driving around since November with a window in my vehicle that won't roll up. Road sand got in there on a midnight run to the airport and it hasn't worked since.
ReplyDeleteIt's an extra expense that simply can't be borne and I can manage with the window rolled down an inch. It's just a bummer that snow piles up on the driver's seat every night.
Feel free to go out to airport parking and have that fixed for me.
Not interested at all in the winter Olympics. I've lived in snow country all my life and still can't understand why anyone actually wants to go out in that white stuff. Winter is why doG made fireplaces, sherry and good books.
ReplyDeleteThe Winter Olympics hasn't been the same since they eliminated barrel jumping.
ReplyDeleteVancouver 2010 Alaska, congrats on your Olympic athlete. I appreciate the humor in the piece, but still love the Olympics- winter, summer, doesn't matter. There are still some amateurs working for years for one moment of glory, and I'm entranced, always.
ReplyDeleteOh man, the Winter Olympics are so boring. I think I've watched about 10 minutes in total of the coverage and I have no idea how "curling" got into the olympics! I mean, it's like shuffleboard on ice, ridiculous. Now summer olympics, I love! Can't wait for 2012 in London:)
ReplyDeleteWhen the American networks (whichever had bought the Olympics) began ignoring the other athletes, cutting away from competition that wasn't all about Americans, and neglecting to even show the winning performances of other athletes, I quit watching -- out of sheer embarrassment, and solidarity with global unity. Whether it existed or not. Which means after the excitement of Nadia's perfect scores -- I was frozen out of the Olympics by corporate interests and the myth of exceptionalism. Yes, I preferred the rings & pommel horses! I know dozens of girls who spent years dancing on top of very questionable walls, because that was the coolest thing ever.
ReplyDeleteAnd I would pay to see the Situation dressed in skate drag and thrown off a mountain. Really.
I enjoy the Olympics. I think it is a celebration of human achievement and potential. But, I am disappointed in many aspects. I don't like all the extreme winter sports they keep adding. i was a competitive figure skater up to 4 years ago. My disicipline was synchronized skating, and it STILL is not an Olympic sport. They keep saying they cant add that many athletes to the games , (20 per team) yet winter olympics have several thousand fewer athletes than summer games, so that is bullsh**. Also, I just hate the judging of all subjective sports, including figure skating. After the disgrace of Salt Lake games judging in figure skating, the ISU changed the system, but it's still subjective and they made the fing judges anonymous. There's a real fix for you.
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But, I'll tell you, we've had absolutely wonderful family time watching these games . And I've cried at many of the sappy commercials lol.
People actually watch Bill O'Reilly?
ReplyDeleteINXS isn't INXS without the big H.
Johnnie, Johnnie, Johnnie... the embarrassment of pennsyltucky.
I'm surprised he didn't suggest The Most Famous Shin challenge Julia Mancuso to a thong-only jell-o wraslin contest. That would ensure NBC gets back their 800+ million investment in these games.
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ReplyDeleteEverything's great here in Vancouver and the crowd is full of celebrities. Even think I saw Dolly Parton, Elvis Stoiko, Dumb XXXX Shannyn Manure, Sarah Palin, and Todd.
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Maybe it's just me but I find the comment to be very offensive. That person, who lacks the balls to identify himself, could insult Shannyn Moore without including the C word. The tweener is sitting here with me and should not have to read that word to describe a woman.
Sorry sauerkraut, it slipped by me.
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There is no way I could survive Alaska without embracing the winter sports. X-country skiing, snowshoeing, and downhill skiing help to maintain my sanity during the long dark.
ReplyDeleteGrowing up in Virginia we used to pray for snow but rarely got our wish. All of our skiing trips, unless we went way far north, were on manmade snow, provided it got cold enough to make snow.
Now, living in AK for 20 years snow is a given, and all of the activities that go along with it can be enjoyed for 7 months of the year.
I'd be a HUGE fat mess if it weren't for winter activities.
Yay for the xcellent snowfall today; now we have a few more months of decent skiing!
Every body likes summer games no doubt. I also. But winter Olympics has it own flavor. You have to start watching with little bit of attention. Then you will became a fan. I am watching all the action in Dish TV.
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