Watching the Magic Johnson and company basketball fiasco was the end of the Olympics for me. I was embarassed to admit those fools were my fellow citizens. Talk about an ugly American moment!
1. Stayed in the best available hotel sweet, no Olympic village for them
2. Showed up at the court just in time to play and rake in the medals
3. Trounced third world nation's amatures into the dirt
4. Bumped traditional field of US players who should have had a chance to compete
As others have mentioned, those human interest stories are downright unbearable. I never knew there was so much tragedy out there, until I noticed that every olympic participant was a candidate for worst possible tragedy of the decade, all stars!
Then they managed to top it all, with Katie Kourick and Bob Costas. I'd rather take a shovel and have my wife hit me with it rather than watch this drek.
The last reason I don't watch, is that I hate what the olympics has become so much, I find myself almost rooting that our team won't win.
That's when you know it's time to pick up a ball, any ball, and go outside for a higher level of sport than you'll see on NBC.
That's like the tennis.
Professional players shouldn't compete in the Olympics. Makes a mockery of the whole concept.
And besides, there are nations like Ireland where there is no Government funded sports programmes, and no professional sponsorship. Our kids who go to the Olympics (I'm talking about the ones NOT taking drugs! Michelle Smith was a complete embarrassment) who cannot compete against professionals. They just can't.