Summer for me. But I guess it would depend on which one is closer, more accessible, cheaper etc. The next summer Olympics are in London, right? Where are the winter ones?
I’ve only been to the Athens 2004 Olympics. Saw two events. The first was women’s handball (Angola vs Ukraine) and it was brilliant, it was everything I’d ever hoped the Olympic games to be. Well-organised, friendly atmosphere, lots of people or different races waving colourful flags and everyone happy and clapping. I don’t even remember who won, because both teams were just as applauded at the end.
The second was a nightmare. It was at the main Olympic Stadium, a place with long queues and paranoid security guards strip searching us, only to be allowed to a huge open area with lots of ads and scorching sun overhead. Very commercial, very fake, everything people hate about the Olympics. The event itself (Greece vs Russia in water polo) was fanaticised due to the home crowd (and a lot of Russian mobsters who had sold kilos of drugs to aquire a ticket in the black market). People were swearing, I couldn’t see very well from where I was sitting and it was too hot. But the worst bit was the commercialism of it all I think.