This past saturday, I was in the car listening to the 720 WGN afternoon radio show host's take on the Olympics. He argued that the winter olympic games were much more appealing to him than those held in the Summer. While I'm sure his opinion may have been slightly biassed with the start of the Vancouver winter games this past week, his views were thought provoking. The summer games, (over simplifying) consist of: track and field, synchronized swimming, ping-pong and Badminton. Whil
e the winter games include skiing, snowboarding, hockey, and speed skating. The summer games are simply pathetic. Who wants to stay indoors to watch synchronized swimming during the summer? I want to be at the pool, at a barbeque, not in my living room watching table-tennis. During the winter, however, I could settle for some big air snowboarding competitions, and of course, the luge. The winter games aren't receiving the recognition they should be for their intensity and competitiveness. Which games do you prefer, summer or winter?
Personally I like the summer Olympics better because I love seeing the gymanstics and swimming. But I agree with you that the winter Olympics are majory underreported. I recently thought that the winter Olympics were so sudden that I didn't even know they had started. I;m not really sure why this is the case. Maybe it's because in the summer we have nothing better to do but watch the Olympics and in the winter we're all busy with our own lives. But who knows for sure.
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