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Swimming, Time-Trial. Curious to see Sagan in the MTB though :)
The cycling road race – and some gymnastics.
Kayaking, shooting and canoeing
Swimming 200m brass
Cycling and anything with Danish athletes.
Anything with Australia competing!
Jetzt mal in Deutsch,
Zeitfahren und jetzt Bahnrad Wettbewerbe.
I just watch whatever is on (unless it’s swimming). I think Badminton most recently.
Swimming, gymnastics, volleyball–you name it, we’ve watched it all!
natación, atletismo y algo de ciclismo
waiting for Canoe sprints
Been watching the track racing, man team GB is fast!
Loved the road race as well, great ride from Greg Van Avermaet (Sagan will be beating himself up for not participating)
Cycling!
All of them, although I really enjoyed watching women’s cycling and hockey.
Women’s road race. Incredible last part of the race. And a Swedish 2nd place.
I turned the TV on yesterday and saw the German squad scull (men) win gold and 5min later the women. That was the most efficient Olympia experience I’ve ever had :)
Watching the GB team break cycling tack records on their way to Gold…
The track cycling last night. Great Britain bagging the gold in the team sprint. Amazing!
gimnasia y tenis
Rugby 7’s. And most other things too :-)
As must as I can. Last thing I watched was women’s gymnastics.
Cycling, obviously ;-)
cycling womens race
Cycling and gymnastics mainly.
Men and women’s cycling road race.
I watched an empty shooting arena for 20 minutes waiting for something to happen. It didn’t.
Swimming
A little swimming and some basketball. Mostly just checking the results online.
My Lemond Revolution is working well, but I wouldn’t mind a new toy …
Cycling, swimming, weight lifting, …
Swimming and archery so far, with some athletics to come.
haven’t seen anything yet. but swimming and cycling and track and field.
Cycling of course !
waiting for start of track and field
Pretty much everything, but loving the rugby 7’s. Track cycling finally underway so super happy now
Almost everything … and waiting for triathlon !
Volleyball with Polish team!
Handball
Must be swimming
Beach volley of course !
Woman’s road cycling, ouch, that must of hurt.
Not been able to work (or ride or run) for a few weeks because of a back injury so I’m watching everything! Particularly enjoyed cycling (road and track) but also rugby 7s and strangely, the gymnastics!
swiming swiming and more swiming
Volleyball.
Some swimming, quite some cycling and there’s definifely gone be a lot of MTB on my screen.
Women’s cycling road race by Copacabana beach
I stayed up last night to watch Team GB get off to a flyer in the veledrome! I’ve also been taking in the rowing, diving, dressage and road cycling of course.
Canoeing!
(Beach)volleyball. Go TeamNL :-)
All swimming events i can watch pluss Womens handball. Living in Norway where that is a big event :)
Cycling, hockey
Men and women road races – waiting eagerly for the mountain bike race!!
Rugby 7s
Swimming, archery and diving
Rugby 7s, road race, rowing, trap shooting
Swimming and basketball
All the road cycling events
Mainly Swimming, but I am really excited about the Triathlon coming up next week.
Judo
Cycling and Triathlon
All cycling events, and football.
Ps.: Does a brazilian living outside brazil count as brazil winning? :)
Track cycling, rugby sevens and ping-pong, of course.
Mostly swimming thought there really isn’t enough handball.
I only watched the women’s road cycling race. But a trainer would be very useful. Yesterday it was colder than Christmas last year!
DCR august giveaway.
I have been watching the man time trial race.
women and men cykling, and sjogren gold, silver and bronze race i the swiming pool
Seen some highlights. Probably more when the athletics start.
Horsebackriding, love it
Cycling and more cycling!
So far only some swim events, but for some reason I’m really looking forward to modern pentathlon.
Saturday: 60k + 10k cycling race
Sunday: 80k MTB
TT cycling. Swimming and pretty much as many events I can fit in my schedule.
Cycling!!
Basketball, Cycling, Swimming and beach volleyball
Cycling of course ?
swimming and real football
swimming events
Table tennis! (Does it have the same bonus as ping-pong? =D )
Cycling!
Men’s Road Race, and desperately tried to find a (working) stream for the time trial with no luck though
All the Olympics I can!
Team purcuit cycling – that’s freaking great fun!
all the cycling, and somehow can’t avoid gymnastics which seems to be on tv all the time…
Are there Olympics?
Track cycling
Swimming!
actually I did watch kayaking the other day. For at least 15 minutes
Watched a lot of canoe/kayak slalom. But mostly looking forward to cross-country men.
I watched my swiss friend Spartacus destroy the TT race! :) Thanks for the giveaway
Rugby sevens, rowing, sailing (hey, I’m a Kiwi!)
Ginnastica artistica
rowing
Loving the fact that the track cycling has just started. Looking forward to Anna Meares last race and hope she can snag a Gold.
I watch almost every event with a pc always on and streaming my national sport tv channel :-)
All cycling events!
The road races, time trials and track cycling last night. Diving and gymnastics.
Barely anything. Bloody work!
Watching Michael Phelps slay in the pool!
Any and all that I can watch
Women beach volley…..what else :-)
soccer and handball :D