While watching some of the Olympics yesterday I was struck by one thing: How bloody boring some sports are to watch.
Yachting, with half-a-hundred small boats acting like a 5 year old's football match, shooting with competitors having what seems like 3/4 of an hour between shots, judo and taekwando where scoring is a complete mystery, boxing where if a competitor hits his opponent the referee stops the fight until the hittee recovers and, the most boring of the lot, beach volleyball.
A blogger I read the other day was telling people off for looking at the bodies of beach volleyball competitors.
Why else would anyone watch the bloody thing?
As a spectator sport it almost makes rugby-league watchable. Only "almost".
For mine, not even the sight of scantily clad young women can overcome the boring nature of the "action".
One other point: How much better could the shooting be if competitors were made to fire five shots in 20 - 30 seconds, with genuine hunting rifles/pistols?
I'm too nice to suggest, better yet that they shoot at each other, last man standing get's the gold ;-)
