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Summer games; winter games – all had me glued to a TV set. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I missed little of what was being televised – even when i was preparing for the D.C. Bar Exam!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This watching has come to a halt for a few reasons. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n One is that the entity that gets the rights [by shelling out beaucoup bucks] seem to think we all want to hear them yammer away as if their voices are more important than watching the athletes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And – too often we see only events where "Americans" are expected to do well…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n I long ago accepted the fact that the Olympics were no longer amateur athletes competing…but professional people competing for medals and the endorsement money that goes with winning gold.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n But in the last few years, since I now live on the West Coast, the TV people have decreed I must wait for "my" prime time to see a lot of what they are showing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Another is that some athletes are playing poorly to avoid certain opponents and those winning Silver say things like a 2nd place win was shattering….not shattering good – but shattering in a bad sense.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n At least the tankers were disqualified – but are appealing that of course.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Me I'd be happy to be on the team! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This all adds up to my not watching at all this summer – and, sadly, not missing it either Besides I can see results online… For decades, I was a rabid watcher of the Olympics. Summer games; winter games – all had me glued to a TV set. I missed little of what was being televised – even when i was preparing for the D.C. Bar Exam! This watching has come to a halt for a few reasons. One…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1332],"tags":[1424,1426,1427,1428],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-interest-2","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-tv","tag-whiners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Just being among the best should be an honor. And I'd play my best too!
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