* Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general?
* Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both?
And, Second:
* Do you consider yourself a sports fan?
* Because, of course, if you’re a rabid fan and read about sports constantly, there’s a logic there; if you hate sports and never read anything sports-related, that, too … but you don’t have to love sports to enjoy a good sports story.
* (Or a good sports movie, for that matter. Feel free to expand this into a discussion about “Friday Night Lights” or “The Natural” or whatever…)
I haven't read any books about the Olympics. It hadn't appealed to me before, but I'm on the hold list at the library for Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World by David Maraniss. I saw Maraniss on a morning show, and the book sounds really interesting. And to answer the next question . . .
I'm generally not a sports fan (when I went to my first high school football game, it was half time before I realized the game started, no joke), but I'm getting into this year. I've always liked watching figure skating, luge, and bobsledding (in the winter) and gymnastics in the summer. This year I really liked watching the marathon, oddly, since that was just hours of people running, but I was impressed by how long the gold medalist from Romania held her lead. And like most poeple, I've loved the swimming this year. I really wanted Dara Torres to win the gold, though. I don't know when I last went swimming, and I never really did any proper strokes, but I kind of feel inspired to go and learn how to swim correctly (just for fun). I need to be in better shape before I get up the nerve to do that, though.
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