Some sports are a snooze fest to watch, not going to lie. But some of the events can be electrifying.
Unsurprisingly, my favorite event is the 100M sprint. 40+ km/h just running, wow.
Perhaps surprisingly, one of my favorite events is Men's Volleyball (non beach). It's so high pace, the athletes are beasts, and its wildly entertaining.
Honorable mention goes to the women's football tournament, especially when Canada does well.
What are some your favorite (or least favorite) Olympic events to watch?
Athletics/Track may be my favorite sport , period and certainly the Olympics is as good as it gets. Partial to the sprints, but I'll watch anything that's a race (and hence I suppose am also happy to watch swimming, rowing, cycling etc), and always trying to gain more appreciation on the field events too
have been lucky to be able to get back into this sport at a local level and a day at the track is always a happy day for me
I think if the Olympics were just Athletics, Swimming, Gymnastics and Rowing I'd still be a pretty happy guy, but I'll gladly watch anything
I like the sports with a tournament style to them- team sports etc- beach volleyball a good example this year- where you get to know the team(s) over a course of several days
I tend to prefer the events that are shorter duration. So most track and swimming. I like some of the cycling events.
I tend not to have the patience to watch most summer sports that have multiple athletes with multiple attempts each, especially if they're slow going thru their attempts. This doesn't apply as much to winter as I like bobsled, luge, skeleton, moguls, long track speed skating, all of which are turn based.
Anything with Canada participating I'll watch, especially as it gets towards the knockout or medal rounds.
I prefer winter olympics. They have less filler sports. Summer just has too many and a lot of them suck pretty bad.
And scoring is so easy to understand. There are 5 sets of 3 arrows each. The person who wins the set gets 2 points, if the set is tied, each get a point.
If it is 5-5 after 5 sets. It is one arrow sudden death.
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And scoring is so easy to understand. There are 5 sets of 3 arrows each. The person who wins the set gets 2 points, if the set is tied, each get a point.
If it is 5-5 after 5 sets. It is one arrow sudden death.
Just like shooting, it would be so much more enjoyable if there was a cardiovascular component
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For the summer Olympics, swimming & track. Preferably the shorter races for both, just pure speed and power.
I love how those are basically seen as the 2 primo Olympic sports around the world, and Canada has legit gold medal contenders in each of those. Makes it even more fun!
Swimming and gymnastics. Second week of the olympics is always less interesting because it’s mostly semis and finals of team sports plus some track stuff. There is some exceptions like the track sprints but overall second week of olympics is a letdown for me.