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They should be made of chocolate.

Not only is it fake gold, it's really ugly fake gold. Way to go, Britain!

I really like watching the white water kayaking. It's pretty easy to understand; you can tell who's doing well and who isn't. Mostly though, it just looks like awesome fun, and it's neat that they construct the whole course like that.

Water polo is interesting just for its brutality. Seems like the toughest sport, to me...a bunch of jacked up dudebros trying to almost-drown each other.

I may watch a bit of the basketball, for the strangeness of it (generally speaking, I like the international rules better than the NBA's).

I want to dress like a sperm.
Shove an ice skate up my ***.
And go balls first down an ice shoot.
Yes! That would be fun.

"You know the luge, where the guy wears the slick suit. This is on the bobsled run, but it’s not even a sled. It’s just Bob. It’s just a human being hanging on for their life, this is the whole sport. Just ahhhhhhhhh… “oh he pointed his toes… oh, this guy is a tremendous athlete." The luge is the only sport I’ve ever seen that you could have people competing in it against their will. And it would be exactly the same. You know, if they were just picking people off the street, 'hey hey hey, what is this ?! I don’t wanna be in the luge.' You know, you put the helmet on them, you wouldn’t really hear them screaming, just: - purrrrrr - 'you’re in the luge, buddy...' 'ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh… aaahhh…' World record. Didn’t even wanna do it. I wanna see that event next year, the involuntary luge."

Edited, Jul 19th 2012 2:46pm by Eske

I hope they televise the Judo, now that I think of it. Bet that'd be pretty fun to watch.

I wonder when/if they'll include Mixed Martial Arts in the Olympics. They've already got Judo, Boxing, Wrestling, and Tae Kwon Do. Seems logical to have an event where they're all combined.

It's a glorious reminder that you're the best of the losers.

I probably have more of a tolerance for that than most, so s'all good. Granted, I don't know much of anything about Judo, but I think that some general MMA knowledge might translate a bit. I can find the nuance in most of the uglier grappling/mma fights, at least.

See, I found that fairly entertaining. Do find the the fact that a guy can get dropped on his face (like the one did at 2:40ish or so) and not concede any sort of point to be a bit unintuitive, though.

Edited, Jul 19th 2012 5:09pm by Eske

I always enjoy the 3 minutes of fencing they show in the olympics. My fencing instructor in College was on the U.S. womans fencing team at some point. She was about 58 years old when I took that class if I had to guess, little grey haired lady, and she could have kicked every single one of our asses in that class without even breaking a sweat. She was a good teacher though, and our team destroyed the rest of the compition in the area. I don't know if she had a medal or not though.

I still hate the logo...

It's very 80's.

GWS is awesome.