re: Summer Olympic Games - Which is your favorite year?

464 BC was a great year. Leonidas kicked some arse winning gold in hoplitodromos

1984 for me. Summer before I started college and ABC was on all day every day. Remember thinking it was cool as hell that baseball was an Olympic sport.

1984 - don't know what it was about that one but it seemed to have a different type of feel to it.

1984 was really cool because with most of the Soviet block countries boycotting, it opened up the door for a huge US medal haul.

Also, while the 1992 Dream team was the GOAT Olympic basketball team, the '84 team wasn't bad. Three future HOF members with Jordan, Mullin and Ewing. Add to that you had 4 of the 5 consensus All Americans - Jordan, Ewing, Wayman Tisdale and Sam Perkins. Also on the expanded roster during the Olympic trials, but cut before final rosters were set - Charles Barkley, Chuck Person (who was an alternate for the Olympic team), and John Stockton. Oh yeah, the team was coached by Bobby Knight.

Atlanta was cool, mainly because living here I got to experience parts of it. Yes, it was overcommercialized, and it could have been handled a lot better, but still it was a cool experience.

I find Olympic basketball to be pretty boring. It's essentially non-competitive as we're the only nation who truly cares (yeah, yeah... Spain, but not really). It's a giant exhibition and let's face it, I can see NBA players whenever I want. It is the equivalent of how the Criterion Collection puts out a Michael Bay movie in order to pay for the rest of their library. It's way more popular, but it's not as good as the rest of what they do.

The Olympics, to me, are all about swimming and track. Sydney 2000 was awesome because the US-Aussie rivalry was in full flower in swimming. Beijing 2008 was pretty awesome because Usain Bolt was at peak Bolt-ness and Michael Phelps was at peak Phelps-ness. We arguably had the greatest sprinter and greatest swimmer of all time both in their primes at the same time.

But I'm not gonna lie, I think London 2012 and Barcelona 1992 had the best "feel" of any Olympics of my life. They just felt right.

2008 Beijing

Phelps

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The 2000 Olympics were during late September because it's winter in Australia during when they normally are. It was odd timing.. Tough to compete with football in the US.

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Yeah, it was really odd. I remember being at the beach during the weekend of opening ceremonies. Watched football at night after we came in from the beach, and switched over to some coverage of the Olympics. I ended up going back to late night Pac-10 football.

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2008 for some reason was probably the most ive watched of any olympics.

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Same. For the simple reason that I was in college with nothing better to do than sit around the fraternity house watching the fricking Olympics all day.

Will be 2016 because rugby is back in the Olympics.