Shocked to realize the opening ceremonies are tomorrow night.
This is the most underwhelming, under marketed Olympics ever it seems. I knew they would occur this month but no idea it started this weekend.
I admit to not being familiar with ANY athletes competing like I was for summer.
Is this unawareness just me??? I’m usually an Olympics fan. Between COVID and weird country dynamics it seems someone stuck a pin the Olympic balloon and took all the life out of it!
Anyway, a thread for all things Winter Olympics 2022.
I love watching the Olympics. And I typically enjoy the winter games more than the summer games. But I think that between Covid and politics, there is a lot of controversy this year. I still plan to watch, enjoy and support the athletes.
Agree that there has been little promotion but we love the winter sports and can’t wait. As an FYI, some of the events have already started. I think there is a figure skating short program tonight!
Looking forward to it! Nathan Chen is the big name in skating. Must admit I don’t know the women skaters as well, but caught a little of nationals and they looked amazing. Sean White is back for snowboarding and Mikaela Shriffen for skiing but otherwise I don’t know too many names. I think there has been a fair amount of advertising and certainly a lot in the news regarding Covid and the games. But given that the summer games were just last summer, folks may not be expecting them so soon.
I agree that this seems like a very under the radar Olympics! I was wondering if it had to do with the US sanction of some sort (I can’t remember the details, athletes are attending obviously but maybe no “leaders” are or something like that?) that maybe trickles down to advertising. But then I realized that I am watching less and less network TV and more streaming, so I’m not seeing any Olympic commercials.
I love watching the Olympics, especially winter, and am going to go look up some listings right now!
It’s not just you. I’ve been listening to a few podcasts that this is a very under the radar Olympics.
Covid, a summer Olympics that just ended. And frankly not wanting to upset the Chinese government and the inability to bring up their human rights issues means that sponsors are ignoring the entire games.
I am ready!!! I’ve been watching NBCLX- they repeat a lot of content, but they have had some feature stories on the athletes. They also showed the protocol of all they had to do to get into China. One person they featured was Winter Vinecki- she sounds like an amazing person, Aerial Skier.
After the NHL pulled out I was a little bummed, but Northeastern men’s goalie is playing for Canada, so I am excited about that. I’ve gotten to watch him play this season and he is very good.
Thank you for starting this thread, @abasket! These will be very sad, lonely games. No spectators… no social events for the athletes. No NBC anchors on-site. But I will be watching and cheering for our guys!
I love the Olympics, but I have sadly observed a long, slow coverage slide from showing Olympic events to talking about things related to the Olympics. I want to watch as many athletes compete in as many events as possible. I prefer that to watching a few choice winning American efforts & hearing far too many human interest stories about athletes & the host city. But I guess that must not be what viewers want, or they’d be airing my preferences. (Oh, and don’t get me started on the ridiculous amount of airtime devoted to beach volleyball in the summer Olympics - I don’t think it had anything to do with the actual sport.) I must be getting old, because it all makes me crotchety … if there wasn’t 10 inches of snow in my yard, I’d go out & find someone to tell to get off my lawn.
But to the extent the tv gods will allow, I plan to soak up everything I can. I like it all, but I am really looking forward to seeing the incredible performances that the Russian women are sure to dazzle us with in figure skating. They are so very good!
I just happened to turn on the TV last night and found Olympic curling. I am a curling fan, and three of our family members have tried it. I have tried it twice but 50 years apart. It is tougher than it looks.
I also like the winter Olympics better than the summer Olympics and am looking forward to watching this.
I think part of the problem is the Chinese are keeping everyone isolated the entire time. What point is there to travel to a foreign country if you aren’t allowed outside of the bubble? They may as well set up a broadcast studio at home and call the play by play remotely. In Japan, they allowed journalists out after the two week isolation.
Yes, for some reason I can’t think of the (mostly male , I’m sure) people who make those decisions think we would all rather look at women in tiny bikinis than the guys on the curling team!
We are also curling fans and enjoy watching it. We attended a learn to curl workshop a couple years ago, and not only is there a lot of skill & savvy, but it’s also surprisingly difficult physically. Such fun!
My thoughts exactly! I also like to see athletes compete, even the ones from warm climates that are minutes behind I stopped watching NBC coverage years ago, because of too many background human interest stories and not enough showing of actual competition. I thought I was weird
I now only watch my home country’s coverage, more sports, fewer backgrounders.
I stopped watching NBC coverage years ago, because of too many background human interest stories and not enough showing of actual competition. I thought I was weird 