So have y'all been watching any of the Olympics this summer? We have watched a bit here this time around... I like the swimming the best for summer, but surprisingly got taken in by the beach volleyball this summer. Has been a pretty good Olympics imo.
However, my favorite type of games are the Winter Olympics. My folks were skiers (my ma even has a downhill trophy) and so I've been around winter sports all my life. My favorite Olympics game years have so far: 1984 is in the runner up spot. The Winters that year were in Sarajevo, and that was the year Bill Johnson won the very first Olympic Downhill Gold.
But my favorite games were the Winters in 2002 in Salt Lake City. I loved those games. I'm crazy enough that I actually went skiing the next year in Park City, where the skiing venues were, and stayed in a small condo right off where the medal ceremony area was. Last night I found the 2 wrap up videos that NBC did for those games. I give them to you below.
So are you watching them this year? And if you ever did watch them in your lifetime, what games/moments were your favorites?
2002 Wrap Up 1 (Titan Spirit):
2002 Wrap Up 2 (Ode to Joy):
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My favorites so far has been all women's sports
Forty years since title 9 and the women rocked the house. Outside of water polo, basketball, soccer and Judo I missed the harshest contact sports but I amazed at women's boxing.
My favorite has been women's indoor volleyball. Destiny Hooker is amazing. Those shots of her with her waistline parallel to the top of the net when she comes in for the kill, it's like she has wings or something.
I'm a bit of an Olympic fan, I even drafted a diary on that "Call Me Maybe" video that identified all of the swimmers but I didn't want to post it. Was going to post it here as an exclusive but the video never showed up in preview. Still my best Olympic event was that video.
I only finished the first paragraph...
I don't have all the answers but the first shot is Ariana Kukors in the middle and 22 Olympic career medal winner Michael Phelps on the right. Then Caitlyn Leverenz, Rebecca Soni and Dana Vollmer each step aside singing "I threw a wish in the well" followed by Elizabeth Beisel saying "Don't ask me I'll never tell." Then for "And now your in my way" Alyssa Anderson and Kathleen Hersey are pushed out of the way by Cullen Jones.
but If you want to know who anyone is. I've got the answers
that video was awesome! i love the
fact that they got loose and corny... :D
And as if on "Q"
NBC proved what a bunch of assholes they are when I just clicked on the video. The video is blocked from being seen on this site because "it contains content from NBC."
Not for nothing but it dosen't contain a single thing from NBC. That is all Kathleen Hersey, Caitlin Leverenz, Alyssa Anderson, Natalie Coughlin and Russell Mark.
yeah, my top video has the same thing...
you have to click the watch on you tube to watch it...
Can't reply, so here it is
Yeah, Ryan Seacrest, a man for our times. He's a multi-millionaire because what he does is so highly valued in this age. That may have been the first time I walked out, when I saw Ryan Seacrest sitting there like an authority on something. Gawd help us.
I forgot to mention a surprise for me. The synchronized diving was beautiful. I became mesmerized by that, kept wondering, how do they do it. I haven't watched much, though. I gotta say, to be an Olympic athlete and have the rings tattooed--that's pretty damn cool, even though as a general rule tattoos are mostly idiotic.
I haven't watched much. I'm sorry to be so negative, but it's just another thing that has been co-opted and owned by corporations. It is so very sad to compare it to what the Olympics used to be. Not that long ago, pro tennis players refused to go to the Olympics because they felt it was supposed to be for amateurs. Nobody even thinks about that any more. Cue Joel Gray singing Money Makes the World Go Round.
The first time I ever saw Ryan Seacrest in my life...
was when he made his first Olympic interview. I still don't even know what he does to be on television.
I make it a point to not know who these people are. I spent most of the summers of my childhood in Seaside Hts., NJ and I've never once seen that show, I can't even remember the name of it, the one with Sookie.
I do miss out on some important stuff, like until Kristen Stewart fooled around I never knew that vampire girl and vampire boy were involved in real life but the important stuff usually makes the NYT or New Yorker. I know that Brad and Angelia tied the knot today.
Sometimes this ignoring media hype on social culture actually pays off. My best example was "The Social Network." When I saw it I had no idea who Justin Timberlake was so I had no reason to hate him. I still have friends who say "I'll never see that movie because Justin Timberlake is in it. I still have not asked why but I've often tried to explain that maybe one David Fincher, one Aaron Sorkin and one Trent Reznor might just trump someone with a bit part" but what are you gonna do?
I figure the best I can do is stay very far away from whatever is influencing those people.
Joel gray?
Nobody puts baby in the corner!
150,000 CONDOMS
Thanks nemesis, for not leaving me hanging with that reference. That's a classic song of our time. Representative. Think about that for second. It was set in Germany in the 1930's. Wonder where we're going in. Amazing how the crassness seems normal and fun when you're in the middle of it.
I've got a good set-up re culture, although I miss a lot. I don't know most of the names mentioned. Justin Timberlake I know. I give him a break, just a kid. I think he'll grow up good. Anywho, I didn't even know about this world until I was 40, when I met my wife. She follows everything. She's tells me the stuff she knows I would be interested in. I don't pay much attention to the names--the stories are great. So degenerate, for one thing. Which, believe it or not, brings me to my point.
BEST OLYMPIC MOMENT 2012
My wife relays a report from an athlete that they're fucking like rabbits in the village, and not always so private. Imagine those incredibly honed and sculpted bodies, the stamina, the . . . um . . . well. Later she tells me that they bought 150,000 condoms for this Olympics. It was 100,000 in Beijing. I was musing how they distributed them. My wife says, "Do they just put a bowl out on the coffee table?" That was my favorite moment of this Olympics.
The following joke should be properly set up by watching Eddie Pepitone do it, but the punch line is funny standing alone, I hope. He's discussing what the women wear in women's gymnastic, finally saying in an exasperated angry defensive tone, "I come watching women's gymnastics, okay?" That guy is brilliant.
Oh, Eddie, it is much more valuable than I would have ever guessed, following all those lives. I learn a lot about what is going on in the world. Often my wife and I get different sides of the same story, me from this end and her from that. If it's Michelle Obama in a social event, say, my wife knows about it. I was the best educated person in america on the O.J. trial. My wife told me he did it before anyone around me knew, and she explained why. There was absolutely no question from as soon as the evidence was presented. Anyway, I happen to think that case mattered.
el oh el.... and i did hear they...
buy ungodly amounts of condoms for the games... i can imagine all of those young people socializing at the once or a few times in their lives events... good for them...
OMFG
I finally saw the Gold Match, NBC abbreviated it and the only thing that comes to mind when I hear "Four More Years" now is women's Olympic volleyball. I sure hope that 35 will not be too old for Logan Tom.
In 2016 Brazil on their own turf.
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