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Even without NHL players, I still fully plan on watching the hockey.
We have been enjoying the women's hockey so far. Even though every game the Swiss women have played looks like a DIII teams vs a full on pro team.
The women's side looks to be less competitive than the men's side (going off past results for the men) It looks to be Canada as overwhelming favorites, then behind them the USA, then way behind those two, the rest of the field. I don't even know who is bronze medal favorites. Sweden? Finland? No clue
I am excited for the men's tournament.
I also greatly enjoy curling. Don't think I would watch it as a seasonal sport, but every 2/4 years as a Olympic or World Championship sport, I do enjoy it as a lot.
Sadly, that is about it. I just can't find myself enjoying sports where the outcome is decided by judges.
The judges (when not corrupt) at experts in their sport, but I am not. I appreciate the skill behind the sport, but I can't really find myself being able to pick between different athletes performances unless they make an obvious mistake like falling down.
Now I do understand the irony of that, I am a fan of both boxing and MMA.
Both judged sports (unless a knockout/finish happens) and everyone knows how many problems boxing has with judging.
But I have watched boxing for such a long time, I can watch it and most of the time say 'that person won the round' and score it in my head.
Often I am mostly with the judges (unless it's just one of those horribly judged bouts)
I am getting to that point with MMA (and MMA has a higher rate of finishes)
I do not enjoy the Olympics as must as I did when I was a kid. But I do still find myself grabbed my certain events.
Last summer with the Tokyo games I watched more basketball than I care to admit, much of the track and field,
I watched a lot of the football. The 3 vs 3 basketball was new and a lot of fun.
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