The main index page says that this General Discussion section is the one for any discussions that are "non-Bingish," though in practice most topics here are quite Bing related, so to cover all bases, I thought I would ask if anyone knows if Bing expressed or demonstrated a particular interest in the Olympic Games so far as is known.  I would think he might have had some interest in the shooting or horse riding events, but I don't know if other events in the games during his lifetime had any appeal to him.

I confess, however, that my initial interest in starting the topic was that I wanted to wish any forum members from Great Britain the best of times while they are hosting these Summer Olympics.  Congratulations on all of the Brit medal winners.  I hope there are many more, as their home fans are quite fun to hear when their favorites are doing well.  I hope the traffic, security measures, and international visitors don't cause too much inconvenience.  And if some of the events have to be held in the rain, well, it will just be a character-building experience for the participants!  (I love to visit historic sites on rainy days.)

I'm not a big fan of professional team sports, but I always get very interested in the Olympics, perhaps because the stories of individual athletes -- most of whom labor in obscurity all the rest of the time, sacrificing for the love of their sport -- are more moving to me than those of millionaire's team pros working for billionaire team owners, often with little loyalty these days to the localities where they play.