- 05 Aug 2021 02:57
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Increasingly the Olympics reminds me of Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Emperor's New Clothes'. Everyone praises it, everyone hypes it; but the fact of the matter is it sucks. Everyone praises it because it is the woke thing to do. Fact of the matter is the Olympics has ballooned into the equivalent of a 400 lb couch potatoe. It has become grotesque. Too many events. To add to the absurdity, one chanel has the bid to cover the Olympics; and has to keep jumping from event to event.
1 Cut the number of contests in the Olympics by 90%, is my first suggestion.
For starters, any event that I have to rely on the commentators to tell me how well an athlete performed should be axed. Like most of those diving events. All the divers looked to me- and I imagine to other spectators- as having made a perfect dive. But then what do we know? It takes an expert on the commentator seat to zoom in and tell us that this one nailed it, or that one blew it by how much spray of water they kicked up.
2 I think gymanstics should be shelved. By which I mean those parallel bar nonesense, and those floor exercises.
The only kind of sports that should make the cut should be ones that are all about brute force. Running, boxing, team sports.
Does anyone have any ideas that can put some life back into the Olympics?
1 Cut the number of contests in the Olympics by 90%, is my first suggestion.
For starters, any event that I have to rely on the commentators to tell me how well an athlete performed should be axed. Like most of those diving events. All the divers looked to me- and I imagine to other spectators- as having made a perfect dive. But then what do we know? It takes an expert on the commentator seat to zoom in and tell us that this one nailed it, or that one blew it by how much spray of water they kicked up.
2 I think gymanstics should be shelved. By which I mean those parallel bar nonesense, and those floor exercises.
The only kind of sports that should make the cut should be ones that are all about brute force. Running, boxing, team sports.
Does anyone have any ideas that can put some life back into the Olympics?