Quote Originally Posted by Aggie_Ama View Post
Flur- DVR is a magical thing. I can only take so much of the prime time sports, I even burnt out on gymnastics because the scoring seems so off. We got to see almost all the track cycling, road, triathalon and some other off stuff.

I am most excited when an underdog wins, did anyone catch the whitewater Kayak when Togo won their first medal ever? That was the stuff the Olympics are made of.
I find it amusing that there are fewer commercials the longer you watch... down to around midnight when there are very few.

I watched a couple of track (athletics for you canadians ) heats (400m I think?), didn't see any finals, but I really enjoyed seeing the woman from Bahrain win her heat. A teammate of hers had apparently won something like the first medal for that country ever, and here she was hauling butt over favorites to win medals. Even if she doesn't win, at least she became visible.

The Phelps Hype Machine was pretty tiring, I enjoyed his relay team races and the close races the most. He's an amazing athlete, don't get me wrong, but I really wanted to hear more about the others, too (Dara was basically a footnote, while we got to hear all about his "dinner plate sized hands" and "torso of a 6'10" man" and eating 10k calories a day).

I guess coverage of Usain Bolt has been there, even though he's not American (and the Jamaicans in general), along with to some degree the Chinese gymnasts - but that could just be because they are upsetting Americans. I wish there were actual Olympics Channels on TV (or I would even settle for the internet) where you could see everything, not just what they wanted you to see.