My favorite event to watch in the olympics is gymnastics followed closely by swimming and diving. I imagine my reasons must be because I'm too clumsy to ever do such an elegant sport, so I just dream of the beauties by body could have performed if only....
Anyway, here I am trying to watch my favorite events only to have them come on so late that I can't keep my eyes open to watch them. I'm not a night person at all, more of an early bird. SIGH. Why is it they have to try to show my favorite events live anyway? Can't they just air them later? It might work better for me if I lived in California or something. I suppose it's better to have them on late than having them on during football practice since I also like to watch my son, but.... I could attempt to record them, but based on past experience I'd never get around to watching them later anyway. With me it seems like if I don't do it now, I do it never. Are you like that?
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We stayed up until after 1:00 in the morning watching the mens gymnastics the other night! It was exciting but we could have just as easily watched the results on the morning news! ha....
When we lived in Germany, the Super Bowl was live and it started at 4 in the morning! Full house at the Club to watch it every year!
We have been watching everynight too. We are in CA. It starts at 8pm here. Sorry you can't see your favorite events. I know taping is not the answer cuz I wouldn't watch later anyhow. I thing you can watch on line if you go to the olympic site. www.nbcolympics.com
Try that and maybe at least you can see some of the ones you missed.
There are lots of clips on YouTube too. I haven't been watching much either, but couldn't resist the women's (girls) gymnastics and seeing M. Phelps win his 11th....
This is kind of funny to me. When I lived in Germany it was the same too. Skeeter knows what I mean! We all had a half day off after Super Bowl since it came on so late. The time difference can really mess you up. The good news is that you can usually find the replays on tons of channels during the day to watch.
Skeeter- I tried. Made it to midnight, but had to go to bed since I got up at 5 am and was dead tired. Oh well. Who won? I suppose I should go to the site and check it out since I didn't get to watch the news tonight and now I'm watching the Olympics again. They can have bars open at that time? Or do they make an exception for a special event? I think I'd rather sleep....
Cindee- Thanks for the site, haven't had a chance to get any looking done today but I'll try to check it out tomorrow to find out how the events turned out tonight.
Nancy- It's hard to make the time to follow closely. I check when my favorite events are supposed to be on and watch those. I haven't had much time to watch much else though.
jgh- Hi! Thanks for dropping by, glad you could join us. I guess I've got some surfing to do tomorrow. I'm watching the same things and trying to use the computer at the same time. And here I thought I was normally a slow typer!
Tina- I'm sure Cheesehead would have had to do that too. I couldn't imagine going in to work after staying up that late. I guess I don't turn the tv on enough during the day, I hadn't even noticed! I suppose I can attribute that to the busy life I lead though.
You mean people sleep? I think I did that once. I do understand how it would disappoint you. I quit watching the Olympics and am watching the weather channel. I don't want to see malnurshed poor little girls pushed to do anything. If I could figure out a way to just watch the countries that are good to their athletes===well then who really knows that either. I would like to be able to eat like the multi medal swimmer dude. He eats about 10,000 calories a day.
Cinj, they make exceptions for the Super Bowl in the American clubs in Germany. The AM clubs and Military housing have satellite so they can pick up AFN television, Armed Forces Network. That is the one and only American television station over there and can only be picked up by Satellite or by a special antenna near a facility to tune it in. Luckily, we were close enough to the base and could get AFN on our TV. AFN is a mix of every network (CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, etc) and usually a week or longer behind the USA programs. We could not have a Super Bowl party at our place because quiet hours begin at 9:00 in the evening in Germany. You do not break the rules in Germany!
We were watching the mens Gym team as they were not expected to win anything because of loosing both Hamm brothers to injury… They took the Bronze and were really happy!
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