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The Olympics - When Did They Start Sucking So Hard
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Man I just can't even start to care about the Olympics this year. In the past I had at least some care about watching a few events, now, eh. Maybe it's how late in the year it is, but I don't think so. When I am flipping through the channels and I run across the Olympics I keep asking myself, what the hell are they giving a gold medal for that for? Examples? You probably think i'm going to say women's weightlifting. Nope. As non-womanly as those guys looked, it was still an example of the human race pushed to it's limits at something, an individual excelling in competition. The things that I don't like are the team sports. Get rid of them. Mens volleyball. Not an example of an athlete excelling. An example of a group of dude's playing volleyball. Women's softball. Ditto. Water polo, ditto. Synchronized swimming, doubles tennis? It's craaawwwp.
Ban all team Olympic events. Show me an individual out there laying it all on the line, able to claim they're the best at whatever totally irrelevent event it is they've chosen to throw their life away to excel at. That's what the Olympics are about.
My second big problem with the Olympics is the country aspect of it. It shouldn't matter if the guy throwing the javelin is from America or Cuba, or wherever, if he goes out there and does his all time best by far with the pressure on and sets a new record, then that's a victory for all mankind. The cold war is over, the us against them thing never had any place in the Olympics and looks especially foolish now. Here in the states it's like a way to justify and perpetuate the billions that are spent on fielding an Olympian in every friggin event. Forget that as well. The best athletes should go period. If one country has the top ten freestyle tiddly winks players and they all have a reasonable chance of getting a medal then they should all be able to go. The reason they can't is because half the villa is taken up by people in team events. I'd personally love to see downhill mountain bike racing. It's just one dude or dudette flying down a hill at insane speeds letting it all hang out. The perfect Olympic sport for modern times, and it would be a great TV sport for todays short attention span world, but it doesn't make the cut because they can only have so many athletes attending so until something else gets cut out it's a no go.
And that's another thing. :-) When they have the road and mountain bike races towards the end you can bet that Lance Armstrong will be on his Trek with Shimano gears, Jan Ullrich on an Pinarello with Campy stuff. Runners will wear Nike's and New Balance or whatever else they're paid to. The swim team and sprinters will have suits made out of some material that was invented when a NASA experiment went all wrong. Not if Mr. Burns was in charge. As soon as the Olympics were over Mr. Burns would say, ok, mens road bike race, who wants to pay us, the IOC, the most to have your bike the official Olympic road bike. Whoever coughed up the most, everyone would use that bike. Let them build the different sizes right then so the athletes could train and be used to it. Who wants to be the shoe supplier for the marathon. Everyone wears the same shoes. Doesn't feel right. Too damn bad. It's ridiculous when all this money gets spent to create an unfair advantage for one countries athletes over another. Again, it should be about the performance of the athletes themselves, not who has to bitchiness gear.
No team sports. No country medal count crap. No unfair technological advantages.
More newer more up to date sports. I read where if Dallas got the Summer Olympics they'd push for auto racing, and the driver's would be in identical cars, that's the way it should be. Who is the absolute best human on the planet in his chosen field of athletic endevour.
CMB
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The winter Olympics will suck as well. One dude goes down in a bobsled. Not good enough, let's see what 4 men are like, and let's do it in our bobsled that we spent $10 million worth of wind tunnel time to make. No, let's let one dude go down, everyone with the same block shaped sled, and that's it. Wanna do something else, then see who can ice skate down the run with a gross of bottle rockets strapped to his or her ass, just as long as everyone has the same skates and the same brand of bottle rockets.
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