Will you be watching the Olympics?

With the Olympic games starting last Friday and going on for a gruelling 16 full days will you be cheering your country on and watching the events as they happen?
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(437 votes)
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i got 3rd vote!
Haha at people who are 'so cool' they 'don't know the olympics is on'
Ye, some.

China will dope its way to the top. USA fails.
Yes, randomly
not awesome but maybe ill watch
Yep, Eurosport is my most viewed channel until August 24.
Yea...though some games are very early....
Only some events:
Watched it for the first time today, since an old friend of mine from school (Charlotte Craddock) was playing hockey for Britain. Will probably watch the sprints and the lifting as well.
BBC has awesome coverage of all events live streamed and replays within the news articles about any decent achievements
Only some events

Those where Romania compete
Only some events:
Basketball and that's about it.
dream team pffft.

only country that takes basketball seriously, I wonder who will win
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then you really are an idiot. Every country takes basketball seriously. At least Europe and America
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erm, come back to me with figures of the money involved in the NBA and the number of viewers it has compared to the US population and do the same for every other "country that takes it seriously"

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NBA is just a league. You can say that in Football only club is important. So your point is quite bullshit.
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What I'm saying would be the same as me saying "England/France/Italy etc are the only ones who take football seriously" where as football in the US isn't anywhere near as popular as those countries just listed.

Basketball is only a big money game in the US and in some ways china, in the UK basketball is not a serious sport in the same sense that football or rugby is and the same can be said for the majority of countries.

Look at where all the top basketball players chose to play...yeah, the US. Look at the same for football and the best players are spread out over 10+ countries
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Cause Usa is big enough for all players. UK is just shit in basketball and that's why it isnt popular. UK isnt the world btw.
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"big enough for all players"?

No, it's because no other national league is equal to the NBA.

I'm using England as an example but it still stands for the majority of countries.

Look at the number of times the USA has lost at basketball at the Olympics, you can count it on your fingers since it was introduced in 1936
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you'll actually find that the usa would take basketball the least serious out of the top teams.

yes individually (and as a whole) they are worth squillions. but like if they where to take it serious come on, where is kevin garnet and the such.

also just watch vs china they just having fun really.
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Because garnett is old ?. 2nd this USA team was the first made by player skills and playing style. Last teams were made by names.
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Basketball only.
I will dont watch because i boycott the beijing blood olympics... Free Tybet! Why this option is not allowed to choose?
why? i give some normal question if you dont acept it its not my problem
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you will don't watch???
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sports =! politics
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some football games maybe
100m and 200m (running)

maybe javelin
- ChinaChina
2/3 usa/russia
Georgia Russian Foderation soon. USSR incoming again
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2 weeks to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ofcourse.
Not much, since EPL is starting! cheer
Yes, it's awesome
i'm already watching but it sucks cos i can't watch them in the morning and there are no highlights of every sport on national tv, only some of them
waiting for the tae kwon do event to begin... fap fap fap
dude, the sport sucks
If there are no ONline Games in the Olympic Games, there is no reason to watch it
how about just a "No" instead of forcing an opinion in the answers? =D
need to add some passion in there, even if it isn't quite correct :P
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Yes.
Nicole Cooke FTWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

The gymnasts were good :>
some events
BE won a footballmatch ?!?!
occasionally...
i dont support a nation who has killed 50 mio+ of his own people and still killing
going to live Peking time now x)
no way. I'm not gonna show even the slightest sympathy for China untill they start to act like humans there..
I'm with Homer ~) watch any of it bar equestrianism & the shooting / archery.

The prepubescent gymnasts be a bit .o/
No, sports suck.

Actually, sports doesn't suck, just olympics.
Poland always suck at Olympics, so i will watch only some events 8)
loekinos love island will take all the medals
we are well trained np :)
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where the vote for "i hate chink eyes and i want a free tibet?"
im missing: No, I only watch Racing Sports
swimming and running ftw
100m Men's this weekend :D

And PING PONG
Yeah of course, although mainly football.
jia you China Zhongguo
some events maybe, spear prolly
it's called javelin, it's only spearing when Tero Pitkämäki is throwing and a French man jumping
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Ofc! I love to see swinnig and the belgian football team
c'mon, finally we mean something in a big tournament (atlreast if we survive the group stage, and I rly think we will).
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I was talking about "swinnig" :)
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ah lol =DD ofc I meant swinging
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Mainly volleyball cuz bg team pwns there and some swimming <o/
It was awesome!
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