I used to look forward to the Olympics, but I don’t even watch it anymore. The Commie Media and their propagandizing, OVERcoverage of everything has ruined what used to be a singular event.
It is SURE, once again,to be a festival of political correctness, inclusiveness, diversity, manufactured, dramatic storyettes, trumped up “triumphs over adversity”, “reality” vignettes, and in general, Leftist political commentary led by the smarmy, self-satisfied midget Bob Costas.
Kicking the ass of your opponents? What’s that?
The biggest turn off is how so full of themselves the IOC has gotten and the costs involved. The UK is paying $15 billion to host the games, I am not sure if that includes security costs, when it cannot afford to build ships for the Royal Navy.
You nailed it for me. When it became more about what personal things the Olympian had to overcome, rather than their sport and performance, I tuned out.
When I was a kid, I had to refuse to accept a bowling trophy when the team my mom and I were on won it, because it would have jeopardized my ability to compete in the Olympics as an amateur. Now pros can compete.
I loved the amateur status aspect of the games. Now it’s just like watching professional sports. The whole mystic is gone.
Used to be you’d watch the kids walking in and get real pride. Now you watch the pros walk in and fell more shame than pride.
I remember Magic Johnson and crew playing for our basketball team against nations with young kids who weren’t professionals. I was never in my life more ashamed of an aspect of our national image.
Magic outperforming some kid from Nigeria, now there’s real class.
When that bomb in Atlanta didn’t go off and kill a hundred people, you could see the dissappointment in Costas’ face. Little bastard thought he was gonna be the next Jim McKay.
One tip: avoid the flagship NBC channel and stick with watching events on the "overflow" channels. They tend to do a much better job just showing the sports and not trying to turn the event into a 2+ week chick flick.
I’ve had no interest in the Olympics since the Cold War ended; it was a non-violent proxy war between “us” and “them”. Now they’ve become us, and we became them; I no longer look at anything “American” as having any relationship to me at all.