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Poll: Do you watch the Olympics?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
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Yes Aug 2, 2024

Only at the end of the day, because I’m overloaded with work right now. So far, I’ve seen artistic gymnastics (women’s), diving, trampoline, some swimming events and equestrian dressage. I’m looking forward to athletics…

Josephine Cassar
 
Lingua 5B
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Bosnien och Hercegovina
Local time: 22:19
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Engelska till Kroatiska
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Yes, mostly gymnastics Aug 2, 2024

Mostly gymnastics, waiting for the figure swimming (according to the schedule, it starts on the 5th of August).

But I don’t watch it much or regularly, just snippets.


 
Jennifer Levey
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Chile
Local time: 18:19
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Other Aug 2, 2024

Not if I can avoid it!

Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
Angie Garbarino
Thayenga
ph-b (X)
 
Angus Stewart
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Storbritannien
Local time: 21:19
Franska till Engelska
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No Aug 3, 2024

No, I am in the minority of the population who don't have a TV.

ph-b (X)
Zea_Mays
Barbara Carrara
Anne Maclennan
 
neilmac
neilmac
Spanien
Local time: 22:19
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No Aug 3, 2024

My TV antenna has needed adjusting for about 6 months now, so I can't watch any terrestrial channels. If it was working properly, I might have watched the odd Olympic thingy.
I did manage to see the euros (football) by casting from my mobile phone, but that uses up a lot of data, so I rarely resort to using it.


 
Liena Vijupe
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Lettland
Local time: 23:19
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Other Aug 3, 2024

Not the summer sports usually (I am more interested in those involving ice and snow), but I glimpse at the current events occasionally because I like to see Paris which was also my home for some glorious years.
I mean, I wasn't even aware fencing was an Olympic sport, but I'd watch anything happening in Grand Palais!

[Edited at 2024-08-03 13:02 GMT]


 
Thayenga
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Tyskland
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@ Jennifer Aug 3, 2024

Avoiding the Olympics is easy, just don't turn the TV on.

Over here, they show a summary of the daily events at the end of the polotical news and before the weather forecast. This summary last just long enough to allow a quick trip to the kitchen, or whereever. So avoiding them is really so easy.


Jennifer Levey
 
Dour Aug 4, 2024

Angus Stewart wrote:

No, I am in the minority of the population who don't have a TV.


If only they’d invent something that would enable people with internet access to watch TV on their computers or phones.

I’ve watched some mountain biking (and not using a TV) because it’s the closest to what I do, but I’m a bit sported out after all the Euros football.


 
Baran Keki
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Turkiet
Local time: 00:19
Medlem
Engelska till Turkiska
TV license Aug 4, 2024

Christopher Schröder wrote:
If only they’d invent something that would enable people with internet access to watch TV on their computers or phones.

You mean if they abolished TV license over there?


 
ph-b (X)
ph-b (X)
Frankrike
Engelska till Franska
I don't either Aug 4, 2024

Christopher Schröder wrote:

Angus Stewart wrote:

No, I am in the minority of the population who don't have a TV.


If only they’d invent something that would enable people with internet access to watch TV on their computers or phones.


If only they'd stop using their mobile phones or their computers as TV sets. I agreed with Angus's statement on the basis that mobile phones and computers are not meant for that purpose.

Back on topic: why would I want to watch this olympic waste of ressources? If only someone told them about Earth Overshoot Day, which fell on August 1st this year, i.e. during the Olympics, and which got hardly any press coverage. Unlike the Olympics.

ph-b, who doesn't own a TV set, whose mobile phone is not smart and who sits in front of his computer screen mostly for work. And who's managed to survive so far, somehow.

Edited for typo.

[Edited at 2024-08-05 04:16 GMT]


 
Andrus Lauringson
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Estland
Local time: 23:19
Medlem (2022)
Engelska till Estniska
The Title Aug 5, 2024

If you watch the Olympics, the Olympics watch you.

 
Denis Fesik
Denis Fesik
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Not a fan of watching sports at all Aug 9, 2024

However, the Olympics used to be the only kind of event I'd actually watch. Don't know what happened, but one day a few years ago I just lost interest. There's one picture from the current OG that everybody loves, the new meme guy, Yusuf Dikeç. He's another level. Too bad he didn't grab the first place (as I've read)

 
expressisverbis
expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 21:19
Medlem (2015)
Engelska till Portugisiska
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No Aug 13, 2024

but I consider myself a person who pays a lot of attention to certain things, and I realised that our colleague Christopher has disappeared... why?
It's very strange.
I don't have time to watch a lot of TV.


 
Jennifer Levey
Jennifer Levey  Identity Verified
Chile
Local time: 18:19
Spanska till Engelska
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@expressisverbis Aug 13, 2024

expressisverbis wrote:

but I consider myself a person who pays a lot of attention to certain things, and I realised that our colleague Christopher has disappeared... why?
It's very strange.
I don't have time to watch a lot of TV.


Have you had a look at the new tagline in his profile? Says it all, I guess.


 
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