The build up to the olympic games (either games, summer or winter) starts slowly and then gains a full head of steam about two weeks before. The first week of the games are great. Everyone is excited to watch the different events and see different competitions that aren't normally on the television. I watched some water polo, some handball (dude, hardcore), badminton. And then....meh.
The excitement kind of goes away. For me it was all about the swimming, as I had mentioned in an earlier post. Afterwards, I could give a shit less. Track and field is not exciting for me, nor is bmx biking (and by the way, how the hell did that become an olympic event?). I tried to watch some track and field, and then realized that there seemed to be a million qualifying rounds for the one hundred and two hundred meter race. I can only watch people run a straight line so many times before I get bored with it. I admit, swimming also has qualifying rounds, but just one. The more 'popular' races such as the fifty and one hundred free, and other one hundred races (butterfly for example) have qualifying, but it is just two heats...TWO. The top eight of the sixteen get in for the final race. That's it.
And as cool as it was to see Usain Bolt break the world records in the one and two hundred races, they weren't very exciting. He was so far ahead of everyone in the one hundred meter that he could have made a pot of coffee while waiting for the rest of them to cross the finish line. That includes grinding the coffee beans first! So not very exciting, and then you have the one hundred fly where Michael Phelps wins by one one hundredths of a second. That is .001 seconds.
It takes longer to blink.
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