So I’m starting to get excited about the upcoming Summer Olympics. For some reason I always get more excited about the Summer Olympics than I do the Winter Olympics.
My favorite event to follow is swimming. I love it. Winners declared by.008 seconds. The excitement is intense and it seems like athleticism at it’s best.
I have included a list of most of the summer events and I want to hear from you. Which event is your favorite to watch? Which event do you think they should drop? Is there a sport you think should be added to the Olympics in 2012?
my watercooler,
Pete
Gymnastics
@candidchatter I think you should enter the Olympics for the fastest person to ever comment on a post. I don’t see how you do it. I swear that post wasn’t up for 30 seconds when you left that comment!
You forgot about diving! Which along with gymnastics are my top two favorites!!
@Carey, That right! I love diving as well.
As for the sport I would like to see them add back in to the Olympics. I’m going with golf. I think that would be a great one to add.
I would have to go with swimming as well, love to do it, love to watch it. I have to say that I did not know that table tennis was an Olympic sport…
Tennis! Triathlon, table tennis, fencing, cycling, rowing….yeah I’m excited for a lot!
baseball…but it won’t be on the tube much.
i would definitely be echoing the request for golf to be added. there are great golfers from all over the world and it would be a great break in the season.
Men’s Basketball…always look forward to see how our pros do against the world’s best.
I keep forgetting that the olympics are this summer. I love watching the olympics! As a kid, olympic years were my favorite (remember when winter and summer olympics were on the same year?)
My favorite: Track and Field, Swimming, Diving in that order. Basketball and Baseball seem weird to me as olympic sports and plus the US usually dominates in those events.
I enjoy the swimming, volleyball the best. If I could get rid of one it would be the shooting. I just don’t get it at all.
definitely diving.
we have a diver from our town who just made the team which is going to make it even better to watch.
uuhhhh… table tennis! as if there were a more electrifing event in the history of human competition! the only dissappointment is in the lack of television coverage of these athletic juggernauts. I might have to invest in NBC’s triplecast package this year.
I always watch the diving competition and gymnastics. Hubby loves all the track and field stuff.
My Favorite is wrestling….the WWE kind would be great, that way my 12 year would be more interested. I also enjoy swimming and diving. My least favorite is badminton….I had to check your blog to even spell it correctly.I always thought it was spelled badmitten.
I love the Summer Olympics way better!!!
My favorite event is when the take the Olympic torch and light the Tibetan Protesters on fire for the start of the games. Oh wait, that’s not an Olympic event is it? I guess they do that in China all the time.
I love the gymnastics, it was always my dream as a little girl to compete in the floor exercises!
I’d drop that shuffle board game where the guys use little brooms to push the disc across the gameboard. Boring…..
it’s a three-way tie between gymnastics/swimming/diving
I’m starting to reconsider. What if instead of golf we added the “3 legged race”. I think I might be able to actually compete in this event. Maybe GI will be my partner?
None, I am waiting to adopt a little boy from China and those darm Olympics are holding things up:) I just want them to be over with, so I can go get my son!!
I would love for underwater basket-weaving to make the cut! It is very intense and exciting…
Boxing. Olympic Boxing is the only boxing worth watching anymore. Plus when one man is standing and the other is laying down, there is no doubt of the winner, and no judge can affect the outcome
I like the track and field events and the basketball. For my part, they could drop table tennis. I’m all for adding the three legged race, too. I can think of some very interesting pairings, as well.
diving and gymnastics. no offense to badminton lovers out there, but they actually have that as an olympic sport? i guess you learn something new every day.
I love the boxing but judging did affect the outcome of the gold medal match in 1988 with Roy Jones, Jr. I love the swimming as well.
Golf will never be added it would interfere with the PGA season and I think it would take place the same time as the final major the PGA championship. No way does golf become an Olympic sport.
I love three – Baseball, Basketball, and Boxing
In 1996 they had some of the boxing matches in Augusta leading up to the Olympics so I kind of caught on to it then. I met Evander Holyfield, his hand wrapped around mine like 3 times. Massive!
I would like to see them add Underwater Basket Weaving or the Shin Kick Contest – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03XrnpUN540
Did this conversation seriously start at 4:00am?
Swimming and diving are definitely my favorites! As far as sports that shouldn’t be in the Olympic Games, I’ll wait for a post on the next Winter Games to talk about that.
I have always enjoyed the Olympics and I have to agree the summer Olympics are the best. I like it all but if I had to say what’s my least favorite, it would have to be weight lifting but do I think they should do away with it just because I don’t care for it NO, because if it is considered a sport I feel a shot for gold should be given. Now, if they were to add ballroom dancing I may have to questioned that being a sport
gymnastics, swimming, diving
I love swimming as well and gymnastics. Because I would love to see Miranda win a gold medal I think they should add a chubby bunny contest!
Definitely the swimming. I was a swimmer in high school (which was only four years ago!), so I love watching how ridiculously impeccable the swimmer’s strokes are. It’s exhilarating and exciting and it makes me miss it.
Juggling….hmmmmm..
I love gymnastics and diving — although the diving can be “freaky” because I’m always scared that someone is going to pull a “Louganis” and hit their head on the board. My hubby and I also like watching table tennis because it is amazing to see how good those people are. Personally, I am horrible at ping pong, but it’s a blast to watch.
8-8-08 …can’t wait!
@ Landon, No my times are off and I’m to lazy to figure out how to change them.
@GI, did you totally blow off my invite to be my partner in the Olympic 3-legged race??
Jump over and watch Matt’s video he just posted. It will change your mind about ping-pong! These guys make it cool!
http://matthewsingleton.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/boom/
gymnastics it is! I grew up with Nadia as my hero! (at 5’7′ I only got so far as a gymnast though) I also enjoy the track events cause I am amazed with people that are fast. But I like it all……sports make me cry. I cry during the opening ceremonies, the medal ceremonies, you name it. The personal stories just move me.
I’m down with you and swimming, Pete. Crazy stuff.
I LOVE watching the gymnastics for several reasons. One because I just an fascinated at what those girls….and guys can do with their bodies without actually killing themselves like I would if I tried that stuff.Two, Olivia is also fascinated by it, so it’s one of the few things things that at three years old she and I really love watching together. It great creates dialog between us sometimes. I love it!
i particularly like men’s gymnastics and men’s swimming.
I really enjoy gymnastics, but swimming is my favourite. My family is a competitive swimming family, so it’s incredible to watch swimmers like Michael Phelps and Jenny Thompson compete. My favourite was always Ian Thorpe, the “Thorpedo”, but I’ll admit, that had more to do with his rugged good looks than his incredible swimming talent.
coming from a swimming family…i look forward to that as well.
EQUESTRIAN….ROCKS! …..ITS IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN!!
EQUESTRIAN….ROCKS! …..ITS IN A CLASS OF ITS OWN!!
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Wrestling Rules! I went to Greece in 2000 and visited some old Stadium/Arena ruins. I picked up a sculpture of two men wrestling naked. Everyone thinks it is odd, but they don’t realize that is how they did it 2000 years ago.
I love gymnastics, track and diving. I’m not sure badminton makes good tv..??
Swimming, Diving, Track & Field. I also love gymnastics and rowing. But let’s not forget the original: the Marathon. I’m not sure that’s considered part of Track & Field. I love to keep track of the athletes as they do that run.
I could probably do without handball — for real??
badminton…fo’ sho.
@stephen, really bro??
Definitely Diving…how do they do that without smackin’ their heads off that board? Yowzers!
I like track and field and wrestling (high school wrestler at a mean 92 lbs). Golf should obviously be added.
Oh..and fun for us, we’re doing a Family Month series centered around the Olympics and one of our missionaries (Jen Blandin) from China will be at the Olympics…great personal footage!
Gymnastics. many years ago when Mary Lou Retton got two perfect 10′s and when The girl hurt her ankle and she still jumped and landed on one foot was great
Swimming
Gymnastics, Diving, and Swimming…definitely. Um. Last Olympics had the Trampoline as an event! WHAT is THAT all about? Could DEFINITELY do without Basketball, Baseball, and Football. Don’t we get ENOUGH of that stuff during the year??? (I know. Just opened up a can with that one)
Oh. One more thing.
WINTER OLYMPICS ARE WAAAAAY BETTER:p
Pete, golf isn’t a sport, just like fishing isn’t.
I like mens gymnastics and diving.
I am also looking forward to the first positive drug test. That is always fun especially if the positive test belongs to a world record holding sprinter.
So many favorites…….one that’s always amazed me is diving. How in the heck do you learn to do some of those dives without killing yourself? Amazing! I also love to watch men’s gymnastics when they balance themselves on those rings. Talk about muscles….
What kind of hockey is in the summer Olympics???
I love Gymnastics.
Beach Volleyball… love the sport… glad it was included…
Okay, so I it is pretty lame to say the same things….but SWIMMING DIVING and GYMNASTICS ROCK!!!! But honestly, if it is onI will be watching…I am kind of Olympicholic…I probably ought to see some one about that.
And, I know you did not ask, but when they hit the snow for the Winter Olympics….I can not get enough of the Moguls and Snowboarding…..and I am a closet Curling Addict. Really, its crazy that I love that event so much.
I am more of a winter olympics fan, but I would watch swimming or gymnastics.
Why don’t they have dodge ball? They could show it on ESPN “The Ocho”
That would be way cool!
I’m much more of a winter guy, but swimming is up there. And I guess track and field is kind of the standard. It will be interesting to see who the big star is that is thrown every endorsement deal known to man.
i LOVE to watch the gymnastics. it amazes me that they can move like that without killing themselves. swimming is my second fav.
I LOOOOOVE the Olympics. I will watch any event, but I love gymnastics, swimming and track and field. One of my other favorite parts is the opening ceremonies. I usually get together with friends and cook food that would be authentic to where the games are being held. We are going to conquer Asian food this year. You can imagine my misery in ’04 when I came home, prepared some wonderful Italian food since the Olympics were in Turin, Italy and turned on the television only to find out that my cable line had been cut in my neighbor’s construction project. So there I stood, with my favorite t-shirt with the American Flag on it, on the phone with Corey the Comcast guy explaining that I had been waiting two years for this moment and all I had was a fuzzy t.v.. He tried to be sympathetic but could not fix my problem. Save your comments…. I have heard of Tivo, but the only time I would ever use it would be every two years for the Olympics. I am such a nerd!
Definately baseball, basketball, track and swimming…however I usually end up watching gymnastics with my wife and honestly like it. Love the golf suggestion too. I would definitely get into a little golf, especially since USA would dominate with Tiger Woods!
love it all! I want to be IN the olympics in ’12. Anything’s possible.
@pete, wow i’m late on responding. i was no serious. can you imagine winning the gold for badminton? i don’t think i would tell anyone!
I want action and yes that is Taekwondo and i love to see it in olympic arena
What about water polo and water ballet? Pretty interesting stuff as I’m sure I’d drown trying to do it! If it were up to me, I’d nix basketball – not the same since they let the pros participate.
My faves are sailing, kayaking, any equestrian event and modern pentathalon … gotta cheer for those folks as they are so good at so many things! We love it all … get cable for the month!
I love gymnastics! Go Shawn-John! I’m so excited!