I will be watching the boxing, football, BMXing, baseball, basketball along with the usual curious watching of beach volleyball, table tennis, tennis and, maybe badminton

Haven't we done a thread on this before?

I'll try and catch some football- even though, knowing the way Channel 7 will cover the olympics, they will cut to some swimming or diving just as someone is about to score a goal.

I'll also watch a bit of athletics, boxing, hockey. I can't watch basketball for more than two minutes without falling asleep.

I won't be watching any swimming- I hate the way the Australian media whip themselves into a nationalistic frenzy over swimming....

As much as I possibly can, with an emphasis on sports I'd never get to see otherwise-field hockey, handball, modern pentathlon, etc. But none of the X-Games crap, thank you.

Swimming is astonishingly boring to watch. Given that there can be no tactics, and it's just swimming backwards and forwards in straight lines, there's just nothing to it. Given how bland it is, it's galling that there are 6 distances with 4 strokes for 2 sexes, plus various medleys and relays, and the BBC leave it on as the main event sending the world into a dreadful torpor.

I'll be watching things like canoeing and modern pentathlon and taekwando and whatever else slightly out of the ordinary they have on.

Apart from the swimming I'll mostly be consciously trying to avoid gymansticsy stuff and anything else that has "style" marks and becomes subjective rather than being proper sport.

Weightlifting. I have no prior knowledge of who's who nor on many occasions what the rules are but every four years this Olympic sport takes me to her finely toned bosoms and entertains me accordingly. Small Turkish men who can lift 6 times their own bodyweight are about as fascinating as anything you'll ever see in televised sport. Apart from curling, but that's my winter fetish.

I'm quite keen on volleyball and so am hoping that the BBC will deign to show a decent amount. They're announcing details of their Olympic coverage on Saturday.

i'll watch swimming, athletics, diving, gymnastics.

i'm curious to know why swimming is inherently more boring to watch than any other form of racing in the olympics. in fact, given how hard it is for swimmers to maintain their rhythm and stroke while experiencing intense physical pain you could argue swimming has dimensions you don't find in track racing. i suppose it helps to understand what you are looking at.

Athletics and swimming for me, plus any individual Ultonian competitors spotted. The absence of lawn bowling and small-bore shooting a la the commonwealths is regretted.

Nothing.

OK, maybe the football.

Cycling (track and road) and Canoeing

A girl called Shanaze Reade from around here is a real medal-hope for the BMX-ing, so I'll have to watch that.

The thing is, I'm not sure what Olympic BMX-ing actually is? I don't know whether it's a race, a time-trial or a trick-based thing?

It's track-racing but, obviously, with jumps on the way around and she could do really well. They had her down down for 2012 but she has exceeded expectations

Nothing, unless I happen to flip across to something vaguely interesting while watching telly. I've always found the Olympics underwhelming.

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none of the X-Games crap, thank you.

Maybe you are confusing the BMX trick riding (Which I still find skillful) and the BMX racing that will be in the Olympics?

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Swimming is astonishingly boring to watch. Given that there can be no tactics, and it's just swimming backwards and forwards in straight lines, there's just nothing to it. Given how bland it is, it's galling that there are 6 distances with 4 strokes for 2 sexes, plus various medleys and relays, and the BBC leave it on as the main event sending the world into a dreadful torpor.

Substitute "swimming" for "athletics" in the above paragraph, and discus. Discus! Did you see what I did there?

I mean for fuck's sake, 100m. 200m. 400m. Who gives a shit about the latter two? Someone's the fastest bloke in world in a sprint, yeah? You don't have rowing golds for fastest over 1km, 1.5km, 2km, why the fuck does Athletics get away with it? There should be four golds in athletics, for the 100m sprint, the 1,500m, the 10,000m and the marathon. All the rest can go to cock. And as for the silly events that involve hurdles, and people like Sally Gunnell and Colin Jackson winning things, I mean well fuck off. Why don't they have a proper Obstacle race at the Olympics, where you have to put on a pair of pyjama bottoms and eat a Cadbury's Cream Egg before clambering under a net? Well? Why Not?