Does anyone watch the olympics anymore?

Cypress said:
Great description...young American college kids against intimidating, world class Soviet professional veterans. Hollywood couldn't even write that script.

To this day, I believe it is hard to over-estimate how electrifying that hockey game was....I remember it with almost crystal clarity, watching it with three of my high school buddies and one of their dads. Edge of seat type stuff. I have never had that rarified feeling in any sporting event before or since. It felt like the whole nation was chanting USA USA. And my minds eye can still see that goalie looking for his dad in the stands as the game ended. Wow, maybe it's just me but that game is burned onto my neurons 40 years later!
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Plus...the country was in a bad place. Economy sucked. Iran hostage crisis was still new. It wasn't just 'any' accomplishment. It truly was movie material.
 
Cypress said:
I wonder how much of those sporting and gaming events would even be remembered without the Cold War as a back drop. Without the context and perception of an East-West existential struggle for hearts and minds.

As I thought about it years later as an adult, a chess tournament, a hockey game, a basket ball game were almost geopolitical extensions of the global conflict between the eastern bloc and the United States. Those events were almost like asymmetric warfare, they were a part of the field of battle as much as they were a simple athletic competitions.
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Indeed. Much less political now...but historically the games offered symbolism.

Hitler, black athletes finally breaking the barrier, black power fists on the medal stand. I'm sure there are others.
 
Althea said:
Indeed. Much less political now...but historically the games offered symbolism.

Hitler, black athletes finally breaking the barrier, black power fists on the medal stand. I'm sure there are others.
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Are there any other Race gang signs you applaud? :palm:

Virtual signaling rich White people :palm:
 
virtue signaling, add it to the expanding list of rwwj cliches

Do you idiots go anywhere in literatiure without EIB marching orders?
 
leaningright said:
We’ve been watching every night. As usual, rooting for the Americans at every event they’re in. Enjoying the biathalon right now. No Americans in sight but very fun to watch. I asked who watched the olympics at work today....crickets.
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I haven't had cable or anything similar in years. If it isn't on Netflix or Youtube I don't watch it.
 
Great bronze for Vonn - she had an excellent race. Very emotional interview toward the end. Great champion.

I wish some of the Trump supporters out there weren't so snowflakey - all she really said was that she wouldn't go to the WH, and that she was skiing for America and not for Trump.

Some people don't like Trump - it's okay. Deal w/ it.
 
Gotcha68 said:
I haven't had cable or anything similar in years. If it isn't on Netflix or Youtube I don't watch it.
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That’s too bad. We have terrible internet service out here in the sticks (Hughesnet) so no Netflix for us. So we rely on DirectTV. Events like the Olympics remind me why I glad I pay a little more for TV.
 
when I was youthful and an avid breakneck, black diamond skier [88-93], I loved the winter Olympics. it was somewhat traditional to be @ beech mountain resort NC during the competitions. a few times we were the only skiers and had the place to ourselves because of -40 degree frostbite warnings. when the slopes are empty, you have liberty to do 70+ mph without danger of harming others. I reckon I am some bitter those days are long gone. the main danger was the sweat freezing and your socks becoming an ice block on the lift back up.
 
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