Friday, February 19, 2010
Winter Olympics
I have been watching some of the winter olympics lately and they have been really interesting. I like the way they are approaching them this year with the more popular sports on in prime time. I watched the women down hill skiing and the men snowboarding halfpipe competition. The men snowboarders are some crazy guys I must say these guys on some tricks were getting up to 20 feet in the air which to me is unimaginable. If I were to do even try to attempt any trick even if it was a 5 foot jump I would be scared. Even the woman's down hill skiing was pretty intense, one woman took a vicious spill something that looked really painful yet she walked away uninjured. I think people do not understand how tough these olympians really are. I was actually really suprised when I heard the number of viewers that these olympic games were getting. ESPN compared the winter games to American Idol and the winter games had more viewers, thirty million to eighteen million!
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i wish i watched the olympics more when it was on...i mostly stuck to figure skating. what great costumes! do you think that since we are the laziest country of all time (we watch more tv, go online more, and exercise less) that being an olympic athlete is, you know, unamerican?
ReplyDeletelol absolutely not. I think anyone should be proud to represent their country. Especially in a day in age like today as you said being lazy and not many people even exercise let alone even less can compete at an olympic level. That is an honor to make your country and yourself proud.
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