I've been trying rather unsuccessfully to watch the Olympics.  The rights were bought by Sky TV which is a pay channel.  We barely watch TV so we don't pay for anything, not even the yearly tax the one should pay in order to own a TV!  In fact the only person that I know who does pays that is my father-in-law who is must have been terribly traumatized by a police officer in his childhood because he is afraid of absolutely everything, especially "breaking the rules".  So back to the Olympics.  There is a new channel on free TV called "Cielo" which means "sky" and because this is Italy, seems to have stolen programming from SKY TV.  They've found some sort of loophole obviously because they don't show the events in their entirety.  I just watched a few minutes of jumps then it skipped to a few minutes of couples skating and it has just hopped to snowboarding.  So I've been able to catch bits and pieces of the games.  Now this is what I am pondering.  If it is illegal to be homosexual in Russia, who exactly is going to compete in the men's figure skating in these Olympics for the Russians?  Not PC?  Ah well, not my forte.  xxoo me