The Winter Olympics are on, and since I am slightly disabled, I have plenty of time to watch it. NBC is showing it almost full time on three stations, at least on our cable plan. Because of their political outburst the Chinese so far did not reciprocate, but who knows.
It happened many times that even though they have three stations to show, two shows identical events. Bad programming. As much as I love snow and winter sports, I find their broadcasting events pretty boring and repetitious.
To me the most boring event (as I mentioned it before) is curling. I find nothing exciting about watching men or women pushing a 60+ pound of stone on ice trying to knock the opposing team's rocks from their current location while some teammates are running around screaming and sweeping the ice. I don't understand the rules and I really don't want to.
Bobsledding is ok, while not too exciting but luge (sledding) and skeleton are ridiculous. To me these are no sports at all. What is more the double luge is almost pornographic. Two men on top of each other is a little more than my pure heart can take. Maybe if it were a mixed team...?
I think the Chinese went out of their way to provide a faultless and flawless Olympic atmosphere. I think they also have control over the weather because since the Games started there were beautiful perfect sunny days on the mountains.
The 16 hours difference makes it a little difficult to see things as they happen, but this comes with the territory.
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