Sentences with phrase «watching the summer olympics»

I enjoyed watching the Summer Olympics.

The Water series happens during the 80s, too, where she is intrigued by this idea of water at the beach, while she is watching the Summer Olympics in L.A. in 1984.

Not exact matches

Just as the Vancouver Games set records for how we watched sports across multiple platforms, the London Olympics this summer will show in real - time why it's worth the money to so many.

The 2016 Summer Olympics kick off Friday night in Rio de Janeiro with an opening ceremony that is likely to be one of the most - watched TV events of the year, if previous Olympic openings are any guide.

The opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London drew a reported global audience of 900 million people, with 41 million of those people watching from within the U.S.. For some context, those U.S. viewership totals would outpace this year's Academy Awards (34.3 million viewers) while falling well short of the most recent Super Bowl (111 million).

There are a few progressive organizations that capitalize on employee passion for competition to build camaraderie, as 25 percent of employed Americans say their current employer has encouraged watching major sporting events at work, such as the Summer Olympics (11 percent).

After 10 years of trying and failing to qualify for the Summer Olympics in track and field, Adeagbo was inspired by watching the Nigerian bobsled team to try a winter sport instead, intrigued by the possibility of «making history.»

Following a number of high - profile deaths in boxing ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, Nick J Watson asks whether Christians should watch and participate in violent sports

Following a number of high - profile deaths in boxing ahead of the 2016 Summer Olympics, Nick J Watson asks whether Christians should watch and participate... More

The Summer Olympics: That magical time every four years where you spend hours watching crazy sports you forgot existed, and even though you are never fully clear on any of...

The Summer Olympics: That magical time every four years where you spend hours watching crazy sports you forgot existed, and even though you are never fully clear on any of the actual rules or gameplay strategies.

Today Kiki would have nothing to do with anything Afro: watching the Mexico City Olympics last summer, he vowed that when (not if) he wins his gold medal he'll raise a white - gloved fist in challenge to Tommy Smith and John Carlos.

But suddenly the young man who says that he set his watch and dorm - room clock 10 minutes ahead to try to stay on schedule, who served as the Chiefs» co-captain, who spent time volunteering at last summer's Special Olympics and who had just appeared as one of nine varsity athletes on the university president's Christmas card, was being described as the instigator of a scuffle during an intrasquad scrimmage — a bad actor no longer wanted by his coach or teammates.

For those of you cheering on the U.S.A. during the upcoming Summer Olympics, field hockey may not be the sport to watch.

The eyes of the world have been watching the athleticism on display at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and behind the glorious moments and the medals are years of training, passion and a determination to be the best.

If you watched last summer's Olympics, you may have noticed large red circles on some of the athletes» backs.

I swear I get such a high watching snowboarding in the Winter Olympics as I do when I watch swimming in the Summer Olympics, and of course, figure skating is my gymnastics.

Dwayne Johnson tries so hard to be taken seriously in the ponderous and preposterous drama Snitch that it hurts to watch him in much the same way it hurts to watch the weightlifting competition at the summer Olympics.

This week millions of viewers will tune in to watch the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London so I thought it would be a good time to discuss sports movies here at the Movie Morlocks.

Piper had a busy summer watching the Olympics.

After watching the coverage of the Summer Olympics back in 1960, when they seemed to extensively broadcast the boxing events, I...

Rio 2016: if you've been inspired to get active after watching this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, check out our new Pinterest board full of innovative sportswear designs including athletics apparel created from the same material as condoms and trainers made out of recycled ocean plastic.

The international NGO Human Rights Watch recently published a report on the upcoming Beijing Summer Olympics that states that the «corporate sponsors of the Olympics risk lasting damage to their brands if they do not live up to their professed standards of corporate social responsibility by speaking out about the deteriorating human rights situation in China.»

She realized her life's calling at the age of 8, when she watched Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci compete in the 1976 Summer Olympics.