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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retired Educator" data-source="post: 115910" data-attributes="member: 3373">I like several sports, several of which rarely get televised. TV is sometimes terrible coverage. Remember one year the entire Marathon was covered. One of the most non-competitive races possible until the last few miles. Might have been interesting to watch the beginning couple of minutes, a few short coverages during the race to bring up to date the position of the favorites and then the last couple of miles. Other than that nothing changes during the majority of the race. If you live close enough to Canada to pick up a Canadian TV channel you will see more of the non-traditional sports covered.Also interesting listening to a different countries opinion of the games. In every sport there is always an interesting story of an athlete or team. Remember "Eddie, the Eagle.?" Nowhere close to having a chance of winning a gold medal but he became a folk-hero because of his fan appeal.Many years ago, when Olympic athletes were required to be true amateurs, I think there was more appeal but money eventually took over and the games changed. That and some athlete who was making millions professionally decided his feelings were being hurt and wasn't being treated fairly because he never had a chance to win a gold medal. Still enjoy the Olympic games and like how the athletes seem to come together as one for the most part.</blockquote>