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Manchester Mariner
August 2, 2016, 12:34pm

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I love the Olympics and will watch as much as possible. Who would have thought that weight lifting could be so tension packed?

No time for the stuff involving horses though, especially the one were they prance around to music.


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August 2, 2016, 1:10pm
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The Olympics bores me to tears, always has done.

Funny, really, as I like most other sports but athletics/swimming/cycling etc just don't hold any interest for me whatsoever. I suppose it is really team sports I like and, by nature, the Olympics is mostly individual events.
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August 2, 2016, 4:14pm

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Like the cycling and the archery; some of the athletics is ok but other than that, i'm not fussed.
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Since first posting this thread I've seen more dead fish being dragged out of the water where the sailing/rowing/openwater swimming is going to be. I've seen the photos of the unfinished stadium and heard the organisers talk about the cutback style of the ceremonies. And I've heard a bit more about the ziko virus. I've seen more about the protests of the poor in Rio over the costs of the games. I've heard how people were evicted to make way for an Olympic village none of them will be able to live in and to "clean up" the areas that will be seen by journalists and TV cameras.  Most of all I've heard about the drugs and the Russians and seen photos of impossibly fit torsos on Chinese swimmers.

More than ever I am convinced that this event is simply a money making parody of what it was meant to be. Nobody can convince me now that Rio 2016 would not have been cancelled were it not for purely commercial interests and the vested reputations of people like Coe.

This isn't the Olympics I signed up for as a kid when I was sitting cheering Anita Lonsborough or Derek Ibbotson. It's a huge con, a self-perpetuating deception that competition is fair and open, just like the Premier League tells us it's all about football.

So I will definitely be very picky about which bits I watch and to be honest I won't be too upset if I forget or miss it to watch some paint dry somewhere.


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August 7, 2016, 6:25pm
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Well I've just watched fencing. I have no idea what is going on other than the competitors periodically light up like a Christmas tree and punch the air. Apparently though we have someone who is quite good and might win a medal which means I'm in!!


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UPDATE:- our sword chap has just beaten a yank and is now one fisticuff away from a medal....powerful stuff!!


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Well one of the few sports i like, namely the cycling, is an absolute joke. The course is seriously dangerous and badly prepared, leading to some horrendous crashes in both the mens and womens road race.
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I got drunk off with the constant sympathetic comments on the Beeb about that cycling lass who missed those drugs tests. FFS it's double standards after all the stuff about Russia. She missed 3 drugs tests - a member up that even Rio Ferdinand couldn't manage! She should have been banned to remove any suspicion if they're banning whole countries.


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Well one of the few sports i like, namely the cycling, is an absolute joke. The course is seriously dangerous and badly prepared, leading to some horrendous crashes in both the mens and womens road race.


Oh no let's ban cycling you sound like the BBC.
The danger of cycling like a lot of sports is what makes cycling great.


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Will not be watching any tennis or football or golf absolute joke to be classed as an Olympic sport.


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