Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Are You Still Watching The Olympics?

We thought we would do an update to see if anyone is still watching the Olympics or to see if you ever started watching them this year. Sean has been watching hockey, curling and some skiing. I've been able to watch skiing and ice dancing which is my favorite sport to watch during the Olympics! Of course with the Olympics comes the endorsement deals for many athletes which is always a plus. We found this article on South Korean figure skater Yu-Na-Kim where her endorsement deal is reversed. She is really popular in Korea and she's under a lot of pressure to win, and if she doesn't then she loses her sponsorship contracts. She is expected to win gold this week and if she doesn't then there will be strong backlash. So far she has made $8 million in endorsements and hopefully it will stay that way. The U.S. is still in the lead with a total of 25 medals, Germany is in second with 21, Norway is in third with 14 medals and Russian Federation has 11 medals, taking fourth place. What's your favorite sport to watch during the Olympics?

1 comment:

Samantha said...

Curling - even though I don't really know anything about it