I haven’t found basketball on the villa satellite programming. There’s something daunting about 900 satellite channels when you’re looking for one type of program. 900 channels becomes very “needle in a haystack” like. I’ve found no English programming carrying the Olympics, but German and something that sounds like French are broadcasting consistently.<\/p>\n
Fencing is on right now. I confess a certain lack of interest in this sport. Water polo is interesting. I think I might have something to offer in that arena. I wonder if my native Canada would be interested in my services?<\/p>\n
There’s another sport that has completely baffled me–handball. Where I come from, handball is played by two to four people on a racquetball or squash court with a small, hard, rubber ball and gloves. In the Olympics, it’s played on what looks like a basketball-sized court with field hockey like goals and a team of people and what looks like a 2\/3 size volleyball or soccer ball. It’s very strange. Since I’m surrounded by military officers, they have commented that it looks like a game they play in their professional military education courses called flickerball.<\/p>\n
The swimming events have been fascinating. The women’s basketball, softball, and soccer teams have been doing very well. Men’s gymnastics is also looking good. I could do with a bit less fencing and bit more of the other “obscure” sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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