[DUMBGRUNT]

I have often spent the days beforehand asking locals which part of the Games they are looking forward to. The answer, almost invariably, is either the opening ceremony (which is interminable) or the 100 metres (which lasts nine seconds).

Never seen the 'opening'?
So there must be two that like it, You and the guy the reporter spoke with!

[rlmorel]

I stopped watching the Olympics completely around the time they had the NBA players start competing (early Nineties??)

The last Olympics I watched intensively was the 1976 Winter Olympics, then I began losing interest.

I did watch a lot of hockey 1n 1980 because I was playing a lot at that time and was really into it (I HATED the Soviet hockey team) and that was a good time.

I don’t know exactly what it was that made me lose interest, but I have as much interest in it now as I do in watching Oprah, which is exactly none.