This is Reality Television: We’re Covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics!
Aug 10th, 2008 | By RealityTV | Category: Olympics | 383 views |
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At least, we will try to cover some highlights of the two-week worldwide event! When it comes to reality, nothing stands out more than athletic competition, and the most diverse competition is that of the Olympics. Most people throughout the world have watched at one time or another as their nation’s teams of athletes competed for the Olympic medals.
“So You Think You Can Dance” is an Olympic-like competition, pitting the best young dancers to perform incredibly difficult feats for us in head to head competition. And it has become one of the most popular shows on television and generates millions for the Fox Network.
But the Olympics are more pure, especially when there is little doubt who the winner of an event was. At the end of the 100 yard dash and one man or woman takes the Gold, or at the end of a free style swim and the winner’s head pops up and you know, they are the champion of the world.
We realize that the Olympics have been spoiled at times by the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs, but so has every sport in America and throughout the world. No one realistically believes our 300 pound football players got there eating their Wheaties. But we do want winners, at all costs, and in that endeavor we are no different than the athletes or other teams competing in the events.
So, when you get down to it, we all like to win, and when we can’t win ourselves, we like our team to win. If you live in Boston, you are most likely crazed about the New England Patriots, the Red Sox and Celtics. If you live in New York, you live for every Yankee’s game, the cheer of the crowd for the world champion New York Giants and the hope that the Knicks will be the champs this time around.
But no matter where you live in the world, you can identify with your country. Your nation has athletes that work their entire lives to reach the level of excellence required for world competition. And in fact, no matter what country you are from or live in, you can identify with your team, your athletes, and their victories become your own.
We cannot hope to cover the Olympics in its entirety. There are entire news teams dedicated to this throughout the world, and we cannot hope to keep up with that, even if we also made it a full time endeavor. But we can try to focus on the events we like the most and keep you abreast of those few. If we do not cover an event you love, please drop us a note and we will, to the best of our ability, add it to our program.
We will focus primarily on the US team. This is because this is an American web site, not because we feel any other team is less deserving. In fact, we will comment on those teams that outperform the Americans and why the deserved to win! But we cannot do it all. For that, you will have to turn to the international news media. All we can do is express our emotions and our team spirit as the US competes.
This could be overwhelming for us, and it will take cooperation from our readers. If this is well received, we will work diligently to bring information and articles on your favorites. So far, the readers of myrealitytelevision.com have graced us with an enormously positive response, larger than we ever expected, and we are grateful to you all and hope you enjoy this segment as well as you have our others.

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