My favourite biennial tradition
Jul. 31st, 2024 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
awanderingbardHello all! It's the last day of the month and therefore time for me to post! Happy Olympics!
I think I've mentioned before that my family are big Olympics people. Do any of us play sports? No. Do my mum and I ever watch sports in between times? Only figure skating if it's on at a convenient time which it usually isn't. Does my day spend multiple hours watching CBC sports some weekends? Yes, actually, but I think he naps through a lot of it. But when the Olympics come around, it is 24/7 dual-wielding TVs here at the Bard household. It's been that way since I was a kid. I have memories of even Barcelona 1992 when I was about six and we watched the opening ceremonies on the black and white TV at the cottage in PEI. I remember being terrified of the giant puppet things in the opening ceremony in Lillehammer 1994. I remember watching Donovan Bailey winning the gold in Atlanta 1996 when I was at my uncle's house in Vermont. And Nagano 1998 was the sort of definitive Olympics for me, the first one I really remember engaging whole-heartedly with. Ross Rebagliati won the gold in snowboarding! But he was disqualified for testing positive for marijuana use! But marijuana isn't a banned substance and so they appealed! And then he got his medal back two days later! Surya Bonaly did a backflip in the figure skating which is illegal! Drama!
So, anyway, we've all been glued to our TVs since Friday night's opening ceremony. Which I thought was really fun, but it seems like a lot of people didn't like it.
Hope everyone is doing well as we continue to live through major historical events. At least we have the Olympics to distract us.
I think I've mentioned before that my family are big Olympics people. Do any of us play sports? No. Do my mum and I ever watch sports in between times? Only figure skating if it's on at a convenient time which it usually isn't. Does my day spend multiple hours watching CBC sports some weekends? Yes, actually, but I think he naps through a lot of it. But when the Olympics come around, it is 24/7 dual-wielding TVs here at the Bard household. It's been that way since I was a kid. I have memories of even Barcelona 1992 when I was about six and we watched the opening ceremonies on the black and white TV at the cottage in PEI. I remember being terrified of the giant puppet things in the opening ceremony in Lillehammer 1994. I remember watching Donovan Bailey winning the gold in Atlanta 1996 when I was at my uncle's house in Vermont. And Nagano 1998 was the sort of definitive Olympics for me, the first one I really remember engaging whole-heartedly with. Ross Rebagliati won the gold in snowboarding! But he was disqualified for testing positive for marijuana use! But marijuana isn't a banned substance and so they appealed! And then he got his medal back two days later! Surya Bonaly did a backflip in the figure skating which is illegal! Drama!
So, anyway, we've all been glued to our TVs since Friday night's opening ceremony. Which I thought was really fun, but it seems like a lot of people didn't like it.
Hope everyone is doing well as we continue to live through major historical events. At least we have the Olympics to distract us.
