It was Tuesday, though, that Olympic plans went south fastest. To hear this morning that Biles had pulled out due to mental health issues after making some mistakes in the preliminaries was really heartbreaking. Everything seems to be going wrong, and that — on top of the logistical issues — makes it hard for an Olympics fan like me to maintain interest in watching.
The Olympics used to be the ultimate watercooler event. People rushed home, had watch parties, talked about these amazing athletes the next day. Tokyo Olympics: News and results from 29th Summer Games. This has meant figuring out, as has been mentioned, the various broadcast and livestream schedules — all while running on very little sleep. Softball kicked off its preliminary rounds even before the opening ceremony, so I got an early start in trying to adjust to the time difference. I stay on top of the events I know I want to experience unspoiled and prioritize watching those live whenever possible.
All that is to say, I very much had mixed feelings in the lead-up to the Games, with the reality of the surging pandemic and the people of Tokyo and Japan calling for the event to be canceled. And I still have moments of playing mental gymnastics when I think about the bigger Olympics picture.
Instagram's option is also account-focused. To mute someone you're following, go to their profile and click the "following" drop-down arrow. You'll see a mute option, and from there you can choose whether you want to mute their posts or stories. This option does not show a time limit, so you'll have to remember to go back and unmute someone if you want them back in your feed once the Games are over.
Avoiding spoilers on Snapchat. It's a similar process for Snapchat. From your friends list, hold down on a friend's name and click "more. Where you might run into more trouble is in the "Discover" section. From there, click on a post from an account you don't want to see, then click on the account's profile at the top of the screen. At the top right you'll see three dots which will bring up an option to hide this content.
Click that, and content from that creator will no longer be suggested to you. Olympic athletes are showing us their funny, fascinating, complicated selves on TikTok and beyond. Adjust your push notifications. Hauck's hanging tough, though, in favor of doing actual work during the day as the marketing communications manager for a software company in Atlanta, a job that requires her to stay on Twitter while she attempts to stay away from its main page and trending topics.
It's also incredibly difficult with social media in full flower. Olympic spoilers have people turning off phone alerts, hiding their iPads and shushing co-workers in search of simpler times, when screaming at the TV during nail-biting competition was a sport unto itself.
He tweeted a mea culpa for a Monday night gaffe, when the network ran a "Today" show teaser with swimmer Missy Franklin showing off her gold medal - just before the network aired the race where she won it.
While angry tweeters have taken to - yes, Twitter - to grouse about spoilers, Paul Redfern at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania has entered what he calls "my Olympic dark period" on social media.
That's not an easy thing when your job description includes overseeing social media engagement. He's also the dad of two young kids. A shit ton of advertising. If my feed was indicative of all feeds, I think there was actually far more minutes of advertising than actual Olympic events. Yes, I live in the tech-centric Bay Area. But basically everyone in the U.
And on those smartphones are not only the results of what happened in the Olympics in real time, but millions of us are getting push notifications about the results hours before we can actually watch them. When Phelps won the relay, I got no less than four push notifications alerting me to the fact. The New York Times app. Welcome to
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