Pepper Loc: Planet Earth Country USA

I'm curious to know how many of you are actually looking forward to the Olympics this year?

gmcase Loc: Galt's Gulch

No

wireman8 Loc: Toledo, Ohio

Not even a little bit, could care less.

pbearperry Loc: Massachusetts

Nada

tramsey Loc: Texas

Me either. I notice that I have been losing more interest in the games as the years go by. :-(

Pepper Loc: Planet Earth Country USA

I agree, I used to watch every minute of them including inviting friends over to cheer on our athletes. Now I’m done with the Olympics all together. I’m so tired of the BS that has become the dominate story of every games. Today its the terrorists and when the games begin it’ll be who made the uniforms or who has the tackiest outfits, next the judging controversies and of course the performance enhancing drugs. The politics have become focal points oh and don’t forget the accusations of which athletes cheated to get there in the first place. Yep just tired of the whole thing…as always JMHO you are welcome and free to disagree.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Could care less!!!

Michael Hartley Loc: Deer Capital of Georgia

Only want to see if the Jamaican bobsled team, raises enough money to get over there, and compete.

Besides that, could care less.

Robert R Loc: Indianapolis and Naples

No, not even a little bit. Even less if we have to listen to Bob Costas

oregon don

I am curious to see if they finish better than the USA again

oldmalky Loc: West Midlands,England.

A waste of money, it was said that after the games that the stadium would be for the use of everyone it has now been hired out to a football team to have as their home ground.

I am talking about the London Olympics.

bobscho Loc: On The Delaware River

Only for the political drama,

Spindrift62 Loc: Dorset, England. U.K.

I'm still waiting for the benefits that spending millions on the 2012 Olympics is going to bring to GB. It hasn't trickled down to me yet. All I got was an increase in expenditure to pay for an unwanted traffic system that just moved and increased the traffic jam that has been pretty constant since I moved to this part of the world 14 years ago. Am I interested in the next Olympics? NO

TimS Loc: GA

Nope

NOTLguy Loc: Niagara on the Lake, Ontario

The following is an excerpt form an article on Yahoo this morning, from some contractors who have been working over there in Sochi. What with these observations and the potential for terroris attacks, I would say that these games are headed towards some tough challenges. Add to this, the reported $51 billion cost, and it has me scratching my head and wondering where our (mankind's) priorities are these days:

Quote taken from Yahoo

"Nothing is finished here and there is piles of garbage everywhere," Balfour wrote on his tumblr blog, confirming its contents with via email.
"Muddy water is pouring off the mountain and flowing through the streets and the cobblestone pavers are all lifting up or disappearing into sink holes.
"This entire place was built in the last few years, it looks nice at first glance but look a little closer and you can see that it was just thrown together.
"Most of the buildings are not finished and with only two weeks to go before the Games start, they never will be finished. It is pouring rain and close to 10 degrees above zero. The little snow they have is rapidly disappearing."
He wasn't exactly impressed with his accommodation either.
"The toilet flushes muddy water, there is no hot water, the shower floor is covered in dirt and mud, there was piss all over the toilet, the water is undrinkable (it's brown), it's even sketchy to brush your teeth with it and the idea of having internet in this place is a joke," he wrote.
Balfour's post on Reddit discusses many of the same problems, but also goes on to talk about the payment issues they've encountered:
We are seated around a big table in a boardroom. At the head of the table is the sport manager, his assistant and another big wig who we are never introduced to. At the other end of the table are the two head builders, Nicko and David. The rest of the table is surrounded by the six of us and we have big issues that need to be addressed. Hot water, accomodation, the commute, food etc are all briefly discussed before we get onto the biggest issue. How they propose to pay us.
In the six months leading up to this moment, we have been in constant contact with these people, sorting out contracts, methods of payment etc. So far nothing has gone as planned. They have wanted to pay us into Russian bank accounts for a few months now and we have fought them long and hard on this point. Yes, you read that correctly, they want us to open Russian bank accounts. How do we do this? Well, we don’t, apparently they have already opened accounts for us! How the hell they can open an account in my name without my details or signature is beyond me and sounds very dodgy!
Before we left home we didn’t win the fight about the bank accounts but we did win the fight for them to pay us within ten days of us signing the contract. Well, that has now changed too. They are now telling us that they will pay us ten days AFTER we have gone home. I have a very strong feeling that we are never going to get paid. During the meeting I told them on no uncertain terms that what they are trying to do is total bullshit and if they had disclosed this information earlier, I would not have agreed to come here.