Weekend Wrap-up: Watching the Olympics
Since many of the Olympic events are a lot of waiting for something to happen, the best way to watch them is to record and them view at your leisure. You also enjoy not having to sit through the commercials. Maybe advertisers should take a page from the Super Bowl…
6 hours of cycling road racing becomes 30 minutes of skipping ahead 5 minutes at a timeThe heats of the 100m sprints can be watched in eight, ten second chunks.The two-day decathlon is a couple of hours out of your dayFortunately the games are in Paris (like you didn’t know that), so most of the events take place while I am sleeping (or attempting to remain sleeping, but that’s another story).
You just have to avoid any live updates, or accidently clicking through a currently running event as you are enjoying your morning coffee.
What is the most impressive event of the Summer Olympics? You could argue that the Decathlon is the best test of athletic prowess or that the Marathon is the ultimate in a historical perspective.
One of the most watched is the 100m track sprints, which crowns the world’s fastest athletes. I do enjoy a good sub-ten second moment, but I also find the high jump quite fascinating.
Do you have a favorite sport?
-Leon
In case you missed it:Weekend Wrap-up: Watching the OlympicsFree Book Friday Aug. 2: AI…oh my…Thursday Thoughts: Five YearsWeird Wednesday July 31: Tri, tri again.Tuesday Top Ten: Discontinued Olympic SportsHope you enjoyed the recap! Feel free to share it with others.
Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.
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