I don’t understand your beef with the Olympics. It’s the people who have risen to the top of their sports coming together to compete. Why punish someone because they’re not an amateur? My son went to snowboard camp in Oregon last summer and his coach he had is one of the Olympic snowboarders this year. It’s really inspired my son to shoot for competition.
So now you're not necessarily getting the best in class but the most hopped up in class.
Those that are considered the best are now up for vote. Do we include snowboarders this year or not? Skateboarders? BMX bikers? Chess players?
It's all so arbitrary. Especially when you consider the sports that are judged subjectively like ice skating and gymnastics or where the refs get involved like basketball.
It's a complete mess.
But I realize that everything involving humans is less than perfect. If a bunch of people want to get excited about pampered, drugged up athletes competing in a city that provided the largest bribes and best hookers to the IOC knowing that by doing so they are pretty much guaranteeing that that city will be bankrupted because of all of the new stadiums they had to promise to build in order to get the gig and that will remain mostly vacant afterwards, then the more power to them.