Posted on 12/15/2014 6:09:45 AM PST by wagglebee
When the Cold War ended so too did my interests in the Olympics™.
I lost interest in the summer Olympics about 20 years ago. The winter Olympics retain some interest, but even that is fading.
I attended the 76 games in Montreal. I wouldn’t rate them as great. There was an African nation boycott over New Zealand playing a non olympic sport with South Africa and a controversy over Taiwan calling themselves the Republic of China. It was also the first summer games with a very heavy security presence since it followed the 72 massacre of Israeli athletes. There were some great athletic performances with Nadia and Bruce Jenner and others but I found the overall atmosphere there that year dismal. The hosts became the first ever to not win a gold medal. East Germany won a ridiculous number of medals which are all discredited now but stand because the IOC decided it was too messy to strip so many, years after the event. There was plenty of Olympic spirit sucked out of the games that year.
Agenda 21...”Olympic Agenda 2020”? “At this point, what difference does it make”? -Hillary 2016
The dates keep moving, the ideals are aligned.
Pole vaulting will now be pole smoking. Figure skating will remain as is.
Keep your gaylimpics then.
Can they now be called ‘teh Gay Nazi Olympics’?
It was mandatory in the Weather Underground ("Bill Ayers:Smash monogamy!" "Smash the Patriarchy!") and Jonestown (Jim Jones "serviced" the doc who made the poisoned kool-aid).
You may be onto something there, additionally they split the summer and winter olympics into two different schedules for ratings/$$$.
How can you miss it when it never goes away?
Let’s push for the summer Olympics to be held in Saudi Arabia. That ought to be good for munching on some popcorn.
The Olympics are having so much trouble finding countries to host it that I doubt they’ll let this stand in the way of one who is willing to write the check. I can easily see the Olympics going the way of the World’s Fair sometime in my lifetime.
Olympics?
What Olympics?
Who cares?
Sports is mostly a way of turning peoples’ attention from the real problems caused by evil rulers.
The other HUGE problem with the Olympics these days is internet spoilers when time differences come into play. Thirty years ago you could watch an event recorded twelve hours before, but unless you had access to an AP newswire or something similar you had no way of knowing the outcome. Today, you go to check your email and the headlines are already up. It's not a lot of fun to watch an event when you already know the outcome, especially when the team/person you wanted to win doesn't.
Agree, but now hearing about how the homostapo is trying to force their perversion on other countries is even more disgusting.
Remember the days when these homosexuals said it was their private business and all they want is to be left alone in their bedroom. Now they are moving to places to file lawsuits, suing people who does not agree with them, and now this crap.
This was bozo and his lefty pals around the world trying to tell Russia to accept homosexuals and they got told to piss off big time.
Russia telling the Homosexuals Olympics to get lost would doom them. Russia has been the biggest supporter., but since the fall of the USSR, they probably could care less what Zimbabwe thinks of them.
~The world is now more Marxist / Fascist than Mother Russia. Who would believe that after 1989?~
It is really a wonder that you aren’t under attack from local neocon crowd who would call you a ‘putinista troll’ so far.
But not Ebola?
exactly, with the Congress rubber stamping and Marxists in control of our government thoughts about the Olympics are laughable!
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