Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Winter Olympics: Who cares??
Did anyone realize that the winter olympics not only took place but are finished? The winter olympics came and went faster than the macarena (don't act like you never danced the dance!). The winter olympics have in my mind taken a huge plunge over the years and are starting to incresingly lose the interest of the American public. Why is this and what can be done to make it better?
The Winter Olympics (unlike the Summer games) are very un interesting. The Summer games are full of games that we actually know how to play and can do ourselves (volleyball, basketball, swimming, running) and not things we have no clue let alone care about (skeleton, bobsled, cross country shooting on ski's and of course curling). Some might even include hockey in that mix. Not only can we not relate to the games being played but we are confused by the ones we are actually interested in.
It's pretty clear that the most famous and well liked winter games competition is women's figure skaking (if you are like me then you like it for more than one reason "sasha coehen cough cough"). But who the heck actually knows how to score these events at home? Do you know what the difference between a 9.3 and a 9.4 performance is? No you don't and neither do I. Some might even argue that these types of competition should be eliminated from the games, just look at what happend in Salt Lake City with the corrupt French Judge.
I'm not anti national pride so don't go there girlfriend, but I am against the corporte monster that the olympics has become. It seems to much interest is in ratings, merchandise and money than on how our athletes do. A combonation of games we don't understand and games we don't know how to score makes it hard to watch.
I still remember the winter games of 1994. You had first class athletes and stories that made everyone interested. Dan Jansen, Bonnie Blair. In 1998 you had Tara Lapinski and Apollo Anton Ohno. We cared and were interested in these athletes, but had nothing like that this year. I'm all for the olympics, but corporate America needs to find a way to get America interested in the winter games. It seems like CSI and American Idol know what they are doing.
The Winter Olympics (unlike the Summer games) are very un interesting. The Summer games are full of games that we actually know how to play and can do ourselves (volleyball, basketball, swimming, running) and not things we have no clue let alone care about (skeleton, bobsled, cross country shooting on ski's and of course curling). Some might even include hockey in that mix. Not only can we not relate to the games being played but we are confused by the ones we are actually interested in.
It's pretty clear that the most famous and well liked winter games competition is women's figure skaking (if you are like me then you like it for more than one reason "sasha coehen cough cough"). But who the heck actually knows how to score these events at home? Do you know what the difference between a 9.3 and a 9.4 performance is? No you don't and neither do I. Some might even argue that these types of competition should be eliminated from the games, just look at what happend in Salt Lake City with the corrupt French Judge.
I'm not anti national pride so don't go there girlfriend, but I am against the corporte monster that the olympics has become. It seems to much interest is in ratings, merchandise and money than on how our athletes do. A combonation of games we don't understand and games we don't know how to score makes it hard to watch.
I still remember the winter games of 1994. You had first class athletes and stories that made everyone interested. Dan Jansen, Bonnie Blair. In 1998 you had Tara Lapinski and Apollo Anton Ohno. We cared and were interested in these athletes, but had nothing like that this year. I'm all for the olympics, but corporate America needs to find a way to get America interested in the winter games. It seems like CSI and American Idol know what they are doing.
# posted by Sheetsfan15 @ 9:43 PM 
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Hopeflys,
Not only do I not watch the Winter Olympics, but NOBODY DOES!! America doesn't care about the olympics like it once did. Now I'm not saying that is good in any way, but i just dont know if it's my fault or anyone's fault but the media. No stars were painted for us, there were no feel good stories, no controversies. It didn't gain our attention. I don't care about cross country shooting and if it isn't the movie "Cool Runnings", I don't care about Bobslead racing! It just wasen't that interesting period. If you can explain cross country rifle shooting to me then be my guest. The media failed in giving us a true hero and failed to make the olympics interesting to us. They learned their lession and you better believe they are already working to fix it.
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Not only do I not watch the Winter Olympics, but NOBODY DOES!! America doesn't care about the olympics like it once did. Now I'm not saying that is good in any way, but i just dont know if it's my fault or anyone's fault but the media. No stars were painted for us, there were no feel good stories, no controversies. It didn't gain our attention. I don't care about cross country shooting and if it isn't the movie "Cool Runnings", I don't care about Bobslead racing! It just wasen't that interesting period. If you can explain cross country rifle shooting to me then be my guest. The media failed in giving us a true hero and failed to make the olympics interesting to us. They learned their lession and you better believe they are already working to fix it.
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