As you well know, its time for the Olympics! This time, I actually have my own television to watch them on! I love Olympic season because there is always something good on tv.
However, in Korea, you don't watch the sports Americans dominate in, you watch the ones Koreans dominate in. These are very different sports! There is only a little bit of gymnastics, diving, or track and field. Instead, the tv is full of Judo matches, fencing, archery, taekwando, and handball. There is sometimes swimming, and I've seen a little beach volleyball, but there is no pommel horse in sight! There was badmitten, but they've stopped replaying the women's team for some reason...
This seems to be true in most countries. The BBC covered Equestrian, Cycling, Boxing, Track & Field, some Swimming, Gymnastics and Rowing. The Irish basically had the most extensive covereage of boxing they possibly could have with a small smattering of whatever else happened to be going on.
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