The Olympics Strike Once More

Well the winter olypics have come and gone in the blink of a 2006 eye. Everyone had waited with so much excitement and anticipation for anything from figure skating to the skeleton. I must say that I was not at all excited for the Olympics this year. I remeber being a little girl watching Nancy Kerrigan and the whole Tonya Harding incident. I used to love to watch them glide along the ice like it was effortless.

This year however I shocked myself at how much I enjoyed watching each event, male or female, indoor or outdoor. I blame it all on the television networks and their ability to make everyone of the American athletes the good ‘ol american boy/girl next door. Before each of their runs there would be a little storyline that would make you feel like you are cheering on one of your friends.

The olympics also led our country to form a unified nationalistic tone where we would boo at other countries and pray for a mistake, a fall or a slip. Time warner cable also jumped on the band wagon by creating a special feature on everyone’s sets where if they pushed a button, anyone could have the Olympics on demand. Along with coke, McDonalds and nike, the search engine Google had a hand in showing there love for the Olympics. While not only having almost 300 billion results when typing in 2006 Winter Olympics their homepage also featured the letters google and turning the letter o into a luge or so on. It was a great past few weeks were we had many wins and many loses, but all and all it makes me a true fan once again.

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