whoa nelly! i dont' have to buy special cable to watch, so ???

as to the time difference we just gotta suck it up... we can't hold the olympics on our continent every time! ; ) this time zone thing doesn't really bug me a lot

as for merchandising.. that's always been a part of it, nothing new there it's a part of all sports... i don't like it much, but there it is... and the special olympic commercials are like the super brawl ads... a show unto themselves, they pull out all the stops! it's a movie, man

i sure as hell ain't buying no GM car! esp not a "sorry about your dick!" hummer (yeah, i did yell that out to a guy who drove one past me on the street one day)

as to the rest, the new sports? no problem at all for me... I like luge and skeleton both... like the bobsled too, but I'm NOT going to start calling it the bobsleigh now just cuz tv does...

to me they are different enough... at least as different as ice skating and ice dancing... i'm glad they have both... adding and making up sports... been doing that from the git go too... they didn't even have a winter olympics for awhile... just summer... they used to not have women's speedskating.... and god knows they didn't have snowboarding...

did you check out that article? the death of the olympics has nothing to do with the sports, what they are, having new ones added...

it's the goddamn decision to alternate them... so there are olympics every two years...they did it to keep the olympics in the forefront of people's minds... but it's back fired... they aren't special anymore... the winter olympics suffer most of all from the tedium... it's 2 and 1/2 years from the winter olympics to the summer... but it's only 18 months from the summer olympics to the winter olympics used to be only every 4 years, a real event... MAJOR!

...and don't get me started about the "amatuer" bullshit.
...and curling? That's not a sport. It's a game.
... and guys getting d'qued for hair sauce and antihistimines.
... and that crappy graphic "fire" place. Just cheesy and weird.
.... and by the way buddy, you are no Jim McKay.
... and I hate cowbells unless I'm blazing in the grass; can you dig it?
... and the "up close and personals" sucked this year.
...and giant slalom AND parallel giant slalom?
... and you know those girl skaters? That's just flesh colored lycra, they're not nakee on ice.