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I think my sports itch has been soundly satisfied for a while. That was a fantastic Olympics. We were in third place on the medal talley right up until the Japanese wrestlers wiped the floor with everyone over the weekend.
The heartwarming little video of the US Long Jumper and her husband got me to wondering how many similar stories were untold among the Ten Thousand athletes. A couple of the Marathon Walkers kissed at their introduction. Because they're engaged.They keep talking about the thousands of condoms issued to athletes in the village, but some of those hookups turn into something more. It's all very sweet. I love how positive the tournament has been in general.
Anyway, I still have a few events left to watch - probably tonight/tomorrow night. Maybe the Closing ceremony. Then I'll go back to not really watching sports all that much any more. At least until the 2026 World Cup.
Don't forget the Paraylmpics will be on.
I would probably watch some of it if it didn't cost another $27. I'll have to satisfy myself with the YouTube highlight clips.
We paid the $27 for the Olympics on the day of the opening ceremony, so our month runs out the day before Paralympics starts. It isn't only the money, we honestly have overdosed a bit in the house for sport. The kids have gone to bed late pretty much every night over the last two weeks. We justified it a bit with "it's only a couple of weeks every four years".
That's fair enough. It's a shame it costs money to watch some of these sports.
I think it was mostly money well spent. My biggest complaint was the Stan editing team didn't bother editing the field events, like at-all. The Pole vault competition for example could have been edited out to under an hour if they cut all the waiting around, but they didn't bother. Same with pretty much all the jumps and throws. Most of them also had no commentary. No editing at all - just the raw feed.
Same story with many of the less popular events. Just the base feed. This wasn't always bad, though - in fact I'd like the option to turn commentary off sometimes.
My best Olympic experience was when I had access to the British iView service during the London Olympics. It was like what we had with Stan: Every event live or on-demand, ad free. But the interface was loads better. That's probably the other bad thing about Stan - the Interface sucked sometimes. They did try, to be fair. But finding some events was just not doable. I wanted to find the final Archery match between India and Canada - I never did.
That poor pole vaulter - that has to hurt
That's a 'hello boys' if I ever saw one.
Poor pole vaulter? That image is worth framing! 'I lost the Olympic pole vault because my pole was too large' (He didn't - that bar was already falling because his calves knocked it before he even went over - but the bulge photo is marvellous). His jump will be a highlight reel for years.