Beijing Olympics

Good grief.  It still astounds me that folks think that they can't/won't get caught!!

Be interesting to see who else is out before it all even starts.

Me, I've been getting my TiVo all setup for 8/8 and beyond - can't wait for it to get started!!

I am a huge Olympics fan.  I don't pay attention to the politics, I just appreciate the hard work the athletes have done to get there, and I love the human interest stories, especially about the ones who have overcome great adversity to get to where they are.  As an aside, I am hopeful that I will find someone in BC who will rent me their house for the 2010 Winter Olympics....I can't wait to go.

Anyway, I will be watching day and night (or whenever the kids let me near the TV).  It's gonna be a few weeks of riding the bike on the trainer, methinks!  I have a couple of friends who are there for the entire three weeks. I will look forward to their experiences--they have a great website they do with their travels, so I am sure I will be on that a lot, too.

What are your favorite events to watch???

Cycling! I'm looking forward to it more than I was to the Tour de France this year. A great local boy and some of the girls that I raced with during Superweek are going, so it's cool to "know" some of the athletes.

After watching the World Cup last year in Vancouver and the World Championships this year in Vancouver, I am looking forward to triathlon too. It's cool to have some idea of how the race plays out with certain competitors.

Does anyone have a link to what athletes are participating in each sport. For example I want to find all the athletes from every country in the Cycling Road Race and the Time Trial. I think the spanish road team is pretty strong, but want to see the others without having to hunt down each one individually.

Armstrong, Lance

  My favorite Olympics was 92 Barcelona games.  I took two weeks off from work, signed up for the Red, White and Blue package from the cable company and got to watch all the heats and rounds of events.

Just kills  makes me ill to watch NBC main coverage and shows the 23 place American and ignores the top 3 athletes.  

Going to focus on Track and Field, Triathlon, Cycling, Swimming, some of the grappling   wrestling and probably some basketball....

Ignoring boxing, gymnastics, badminton, equestrian and __________.

I love the olympics - I will watch whatever event you put in front of me. 

Special focus on Cycling, Swimming and running - and Triathlon.

Gymnastics (women's) as well as Shawn Johnson is a local girl.

Oh and I can't forge Lolo Jones, in the hurdles.  She is a Des Moines local as well.

That was based on the Easter Block boycott of the '84 Olympics, in response to the west's boycott of the '80 games. Before the '84 boycott was announce, McDonalds came up with a scratch off game where you win food if the US wins medals in the event on your card. Most of the cards were events the US doesn't typically do well in, but with the boycott we won just about everything. I remember eating for free that whole summer.

And LSU alum.  

2000 Sidney games gold medals stripped from Michael Johnson and fellow relay runners.

Michael was clean though.....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,396481,00.html

You could always rent them!

I just hope this doesn't start a new fashion thread like the Appollo Ono soul patch....