I do not do sport. I do not have any desire to even think about doing sport. But boy, do I love watching it. I can watch almost any sport regardless of knowing the rules or not. There is of course one exception, Cricket. Rubbing balls and leg before wickets and umpires in floppy hats just can’t keep me happy.
So with the Olympics practically about to start, I am ecstatic. I really wanted to be in the UK at this time, but you know how it goes, the 4 or 5 years I’ve know about it have flown by and now it’s too late. Never mind, I can watch them.
On your marks
DSTV have excellent coverage lined up, and a reasonable time difference should mean I won’t have to be up too late or too early. What I’m worried about is how to watch all the channels at the same time. I’m one of those people who get mighty fed up if I miss even a minute of an event, or horrors, flick channels only to find Usain Bolt having his lunch having won his event a couple hours ago. I’ve thought about PVR’ing, but there is so much to watch, I’ll never be able to catch up.
Hopefully a free Logo
With that in mind I determined my best option was to check out the schedule on the Official OLYMPIC site. Holy cow, are they kidding me, I can’t even determine the different shades of pink let alone understand the logic.
Funny little fellows
This is going to be a tough couple of weeks. Anybody have a strategy for me?
Well apart from all the scheduling, what is all this bow-locks regarding displaying the official Olympic circles/logo? How ridiculous is it to stop the humble man in the street from showing his support by displaying the logo as bread rings in his bakery, or as floral rings in a florist. I can only come up with one word – GREED
Flying the flag
And finally, the opening ceremony. Something the fashion police must surely be waiting for.
Give me an O
Give me an L
Give me a Y
Give me an M
Give me a P
Give me a I
Give me a C
Give me an S
What have we got?
OLYMPICS! YEAH, BRING IT ON!
I probably won’t watch much of the Olympics. I do love to watch college football and basketball, though.
maybe you can watch the olympic basketball?
Looking forward to swimming, running, and gymnastics but I’ll also be trying to watch as much as possible. Crazy about all of the crack down on showing support
it’s madness isn’t it, I mean what can some free publicity do other than good
The only sport I ever watch is the soccer world cup. Bring on Brazil 2014!
Enjoying the viewing Ruth!
Are you going over to watch? Now that would be a massive party to join
I would love to, but unless I win the lotto … it ain’t gonna happen. Yeah, can you imagine the parties they’d have! I partied with Brazilian supporters and journalists during the world cup here and it was awesome!
keep buying that lotto ticket, you just never know
I live in hope Ruth!
With any luck the whole thing will pass me by unnoticed
Maybe watch the equestrian events!
yes, equestrian is wonderful to watch. The dressage is amazing to me, the horse and rider always look so majestic
I’m really looking forward to the gymnastics and the swimming.
swimming is one of my bestest too. Also the athletics, sprints and relay
Yes, I guess they’re all great to watch, and very exciting too. Enjoy.
I believe kfm have a schedule on their website of team SA
I’m just going to watch what I can and rely on Sky for repeating the important bits!
ahhh, sounds good to me. I think you’ll get some good and very repetitive updates on SKY
Very funny! You really love your sport:-). Well, I watch SA Soccer team being punished by Swedes (4-1). I gave up and went to sleep before the game was finished.
Happy watching!
On the bright side: with your PVR you can enjoy the best moments over and over again
quite correct! thanks for the visit
You’re w e l c o m e . .. ..
Have a look here http://www.supersport.com/olympics/schedule seems fairly easy to follow by sport
thanks for this Roly
athletics, cycling, gymnastics, and anything that has an SA athlete
I support SA and UK
I love watching the gymnasts, not much of sport watcher though
*Hugs*
I particularly like the athletics and the swimming
I believe it’s already a madhouse in London, so be glad you’re here. With only one hour’s time difference you can’t go wrong watching live events. Spare a thought for those of us who do not have DStv, but have to watch snippets of what SABC decides is good enough for us. I love watching all athletics, swimming and gymnastics events.
I think you”ll get good coverage with SABC, they often do a great highlights package
Love watching TdF and the WINTER Olympics but….
And I don’t think i would like to be in London right now can you imagine the crowds, the prices…
what is TDF?