because womens soccer has as much to do with all of the other sports and events as college football does with Colin Kaepernick

or she may never watch the Olympics again.

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And agreed with it because there was still a lot of work to do on actually implementing the civil rights agenda. She is simply tired of free floating hatred of the (adopted) country that she loves.Also I can assure you that neither one of us are "snowflakes". Truly laughable.

than criticizing America.

When did any completing athlete say they “hated” America?

Kind of sounds like something Tucker Carlson would say to get people’s undies in a bunch.

Also, good to know all the heavy lifting on civil rights is over and done with. Whew!

ESPN and the other networks (esp ABC) gleefully broadcast the results of all of the big events first thing in the morning. So unless you have turned off all media contacts all day, you already know the outcomes long in advance.

I was kinda looking forward to watching the USA hoops gold medal game.
My wife: "Why, we already know the score." I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that this conversation was repeated in many living rooms in the US, throughout the games.

It was on at 10:30 pm ET on Friday night. Wasn't that a live broadcast?

...would win the gold for inane reasons not to watch the Olympics. Clearly I was wrong.

You're outraged that they added a race between teams featuring two men and two women?

...because I consider the IOC one of the most corrupt organizations in the universe (and living where I live, that's saying something), and I'm not going to reward that corruption with eyeballs.

Chicago got screwed out of an Olympics, and I'm never going to forget that.

(yeah yeah, costs and whatnot)

...that sweet South Side kayaking flume.

...for the 2024 summer games I thought the people of Boston might make him mayor for life.

Of the cities that have the financial resources to stage the Olympics, I can't imagine a worse city for hosting them than Boston. The infrastructure needed combined with the logistics would be catastrophic.

At the time, the local papers ran a top 10 list of reasons Boston should not host the Olympics. #1 was traffic and #2 was Storrow Drive by itself. It was also noted that T can barely handle when the Red Sox and Bruins/Celtics have home games the same day. So glad it never happened.

We watch almost no live tv now and have not replaced basic cable since cutting the cord three years ago.

Our viewing patterns have completely changed. I don't think we are alone.

The only thing I regularly watch live is ND football

Our evening TV watching is 100% streaming/netflix etc

but we are a big track and field household and watched as much as we could. My wife was also watching the Filipina weight-lifter who got gold. Tokyo being 13 hours ahead of NYC is not going to help the ratings. You'd wake up in the morning and the events were pretty much all over, except in certain cases where NBC had altered the schedule.

There is no one single cause: time-zone differences; a key US gymnastics athlete is largely sidelined; mediocre performance by the US men's track and field team; no fans in the stands, and so on. The Paris ratings will be significantly better.

So the French also decided not to tune in to protest USWNT’s lack of patriotism?

Like a list of those USA athletes with an axe to grind against the US, versus the ones who are not going to make a political statement if they win a medal.

Without knowing who was who, I just didn't bother to watch and cheer on anybody.

get kicked off the Olympic team? Would save you a step.

from your hundreds of posts.

I wouldn't need a scorecard for that.