My temperature is now solidly above 98.6. I have a fever. Of Olympic proportions. A mere month from now, the 2008 Olympics will begin in Beijing. Even four years ago, I didn’t realize the Olympics were even happening until they were more than half-way over.
Not so this year. Here I am, practically counting down the days until they begin, because I fully intend to at least try following a few favorite events. I’m currently lacking a television, but fortunately, technology is fabulous. There’s an amazing website called www.nbcolympics.com. I say that it’s amazing because it has videos* posted from pretty much every event imaginable.
The two events I’m following closely: swimming and diving. I follow these two mostly because I grew up swimming on a local summer league my whole life. Which you can take to mean that they’re pretty much the only two events that I really understand. As in, it’s not work for me to follow it. Sure, I marvel at how well the commentators notice the subtleties of those damn entries from the dives WHILE the dive is happening, but I suppose since I’m not one of the guys doing the talking, it doesn’t much matter.
*I’m staunchly anti- anything Microsoft. Especially if the words “media” and “player” are followed by the “microsoft.” But, I do have to give them props for a plug-in called Silverlight, which works ten million times better than Media Player ever did. So, much as I hate to admit it, kudos to the big MS for that one.
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what a cool site. i’ve never been super into the olympics, just sort of catch them when they’re on, but maybe this year i’ll tune in a bit more.
Oh. I absolutely ADORE the Olympics. Four years ago, it was during Recruitment week, and we spent our time between parties running up to our room in the sorority house to watch parts of it.
Swimming and diving are my favorites, too. But my love for them has something to do with those male swimmers and their tight-fitting swimsuits…