I'm just going to throw this out there.
I love the idea of the Olympics. However, as far as getting
INTO the Olympics, that's a different proposition altogether.
One big problem (for me, at least): The many variations of the same sports in terms of distances and courses make some of them look . . . repetitious and boring.
First, there's only this array of basic Winter Olympic sports to begin with; basically skis, skates, or sleds:
Snow Sports
Alpine Skiing
Biathlon
Cross-Country
Freestyle Skiing
Nordic Combined
Ski Jumping
Snowboarding
Ice Sports
Bobsled
Curling (OK, this one involves big round stones)
Figure Skating
Hockey
Luge
Short Track
Skeleton
Speed Skating
Then, consider the number of variations in some of these sports. For example:
Alpine Skiing
Downhill
Super-G
Giant slalom
Slalom
Combined
Biathlon
Individual
Sprint
Pursuit
Mass start
Relay
Cross-Country
15 kilometre classical
30 kilometre skiathlon
50 kilometre freestyle
4 x 10 kilometre relay
Sprint
Team sprint
Speed Skating
500 metres
1000 metres
1500 metres
5000 metres
10000 metres
Team pursuit
You get the idea. If you tune in to the Olympics day after day, you seem to see the same events over and over again. Like the people on skis with funny-looking rifles. Them again?
Take a look at the chart below. I find myself gravitating toward the sports that have less events or, if they do have multiple events (blue), are leading up to exciting finals (gold). Yes, that includes Curling!
Otherwise, you really have to be
INTO these sports to sustain interest in them for over two weeks.