Rio 2016 Olympic Games

The Games kicked off tonight in Rio. A lot of controversy with these games, but I quite enjoyed the opening ceremonies. In retrospect, I wish I'd found a BBC stream, though...NBC's coverage leaves a lot to be desired (do we really need commercials every five minutes? )



I'm most looking forward to gymnastics, but also hoping to catch some beach volleyball & polo matches. Also hyped for the US Women's soccer team, and I always manage to at least catch the finals for swimming, diving, and track.


Do you keep up with the Olympics? What sports are your favorites? What teams do you root for apart from your home country? Are there certain athletes you watch specifically?


Gotta say, I'm pulling hard for the Independent & the Refugee teams after Team USA. And Congo after that, since they've never won a medal.

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I'll watch Judo, since I used to practice it. Otherwise, I'm more interested in the winter games.

 

Fun fact: Kayla Harrison, who took the gold for judo in London, is from my hometown. There are also a couple Cincinnati natives on the volleyball teams, and a whole host of Ohio State alum.


USA scored the first gold medal of the Games. Ginny Weasley Thrasher won the 10m Rifle event.



I get out of work at 6 am tomorrow, so I'll probably stay up for a bit and watch the women's gymnastics events. I also got really into women's water polo during the London Games, so I'll try to catch as many of those events as I can. I've got swimming on right now, but I'm only listening as I do other things at the moment.

 

Yes. I really hate NBC's coverage in particular. But I'm a bit of a sap and still believe in the spirit of the games...bringing the world together, if only for a couple weeks.

 

I watched the opening ceremonies, as well. Understood about 3/4ths of it. Glad they had someone interpreting the dancing and other activities. Really enjoyed when the gentleman sang their national anthem and the Brazilians sang along.

Been watching a few different sports aired today, men and women's volleyball, biking, a little swimming.
Very happy we got the first gold.

I saw a picture of a very unfortunate French gymnast who broke his leg during a routine.
Hopefully further injuries are kept to a minimum.

I'm looking forward to the rest of the games. I usually reserve my sports watching for Olympics, World Cups, various tennis championships and the Super Bowl.

 

Does anyone know where to find an accurate schedule, such as exact times, of televised events? I seriously despise having to sit through events of no interest to me in the hopes of seeing an event that does interest me.

 

I stayed up way later this morning to catch women's gymnastics...only to find it wasn't being aired. And now I just saw a status on faceyspace that says gymnastics starts in 15 minutes? I'm so confused. And bummed that I won't be able to watch much. At least I'll be able to watch more during the week.


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Canada! Your men's volleyball team is looking good!


....maybe tone it done a little since you're playing us, eh

 

Thanks.

It took me a while to figure out how that schedule works (sometimes I'm not very smart), but at least now I have a reference for what is listed to be shown at definite (give or take) times.

 

The local coverage in Oz is so crap. Full of ads and sooooooooooo focused on Aussies to the exclusion of everyone else (to the point of replaying something that's already happened over something happening right now. Terribl time zone for us too - unless you are insomniac or don't have a day job

 

It's happening here, too, in the States. I dvr'd a 4 hour selection of events and it turned out it repeated everything 3 times. smh...

 

I didn't see the scissors. Where were they?

 

I was watching when that Poor bicyclist crashed. She was in the lead and having the race of her life when the rear tire came out under her do to the wet road. 3 fractured vertebrate and a concussion. I still feel bad for her.

 

Kerri Walsh Jennings & April Ross destroyed the Chinese team, the second set wasn't even close to being competitive (I stayed up just to watch this).

On a completely personal bias note:
I'm happy to see that Ross has cut back, at least so far, on running her mouth.