Remember when people in America watched the Olympics?


Am I crazy, or is nobody watching the Winter Olympics? I may have seen approximately 15 minutes of it since it started (I saw what I think might have been the opening ceremonies...not sure because it looked really strange on TV) the other 5 minutes was watching Curling because my girlfriend needed proof that it was really an olympic sport and not a funny joke she saw watching a commercial for it one day. I remember those days watching track and field in the Summer Olympics, and of course the Dream Team. As for the Winter, I even found myself secretly watching ice skating, especially the year of that wacko white trash looking American paying some moron to hit the other American's knee. But anyway, here we are in 2010. I heard there was some skating chick who hurt her shin and I guess won a medal. I also heard about the poor guy who died. Guy spent the past 4 years of his life training for this moment, only to pass away thanks to some idiots who want more and more speed on the track and tried their best to design it that way no matter what the possible cost to those competed in this event. Well, since I haven't watched much, I guess the only other thing I can comment on is my fascination with those random countries who have 3 or less athletes representing them. How interesting it must be, especially for those athletes are truly the only one in their entire country to enter this thing. Question: Does that create an amazing amount of pressure on the athlete, or does it not matter because their countries may not even realize that they have someone participating and so they don't even watch? Oh well, either way, I'm just not interested. I'll keep watching basketball, try and watch some baseball without falling asleep, and impatiently wait for football to start up again.