I gave up on the relay. I could not tell what was going on in that race.
There have been so many ways to spoil the Olympics. Yahoo News had a headline "Bode Miller Wipes Out!" in their top news stories -- which appear as links in my email. So I checked my email and got spoiled. A friend of mine was watching NBC's late night coverage of the games having carefully avoided spoilers all day -- and NBC opened with a listing of who won what, which was just stupid.
I was cruising along LJ and someone mentioned the results of the speed skating 5000m race. Augh.
Then NBC's nationalistic coverage oftne gave away the ending. When they showed the U.S. women's hockey game out of the blue? Gosh. Who do you think won? Yawn.
I'd stopped caring at a certain point (also, I don't like Sasha Cohen, I saw her cut off another skater deliberately in practice in 2002 - no apology - so I think she's awful). I made no effort to avoid the spoilers for women's figure skating. And wow, was it easy to find out who lost. Finding out who won was another matter. Which just says it all.
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There have been so many ways to spoil the Olympics. Yahoo News had a headline "Bode Miller Wipes Out!" in their top news stories -- which appear as links in my email. So I checked my email and got spoiled. A friend of mine was watching NBC's late night coverage of the games having carefully avoided spoilers all day -- and NBC opened with a listing of who won what, which was just stupid.
I was cruising along LJ and someone mentioned the results of the speed skating 5000m race. Augh.
Then NBC's nationalistic coverage oftne gave away the ending. When they showed the U.S. women's hockey game out of the blue? Gosh. Who do you think won? Yawn.
I'd stopped caring at a certain point (also, I don't like Sasha Cohen, I saw her cut off another skater deliberately in practice in 2002 - no apology - so I think she's awful). I made no effort to avoid the spoilers for women's figure skating. And wow, was it easy to find out who lost. Finding out who won was another matter. Which just says it all.
Icarus