My interest in the Olympics has dropped to almost nil. The inability to guarantee drug-free winners took all the fun out of it for me back in the 90's.
Plus, the increasing reliance on the pre-made soap operas about the athletes bores me to tears. Most top-notch athletes are obsessive jerks. The less I know about them, the greater the chance I might actually root for them.
And with the totalitarian-loving IOC putting the Olympics back in a nasty dictatorship again, I'm not really in the mood for a giant NBC-run Chicom love-fest. How many stories will they run about the wonders of the People's Liberation Army's earthquake relief efforts? And how friendly those Chinese cops are -- at least when no nasty Tibetans or freedom-loving Chinese protesters are around?
I can't even get excited about Phelps either -- the new swimming suits render any new world records as meaningless inflation.
Unless there's another Tienamen Square beatdown or the pollution starts killing tourists and athletes by the hundreds, I won't watch anything with one exception. The marathons might be entertaining just to watch runners bleeding from their lungs in the second half of the run.
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My interest in the Olympics has dropped to almost nil. The inability to guarantee drug-free winners took all the fun out of it for me back in the 90's.
Plus, the increasing reliance on the pre-made soap operas about the athletes bores me to tears. Most top-notch athletes are obsessive jerks. The less I know about them, the greater the chance I might actually root for them.
And with the totalitarian-loving IOC putting the Olympics back in a nasty dictatorship again, I'm not really in the mood for a giant NBC-run Chicom love-fest. How many stories will they run about the wonders of the People's Liberation Army's earthquake relief efforts? And how friendly those Chinese cops are -- at least when no nasty Tibetans or freedom-loving Chinese protesters are around?
I can't even get excited about Phelps either -- the new swimming suits render any new world records as meaningless inflation.
Unless there's another Tienamen Square beatdown or the pollution starts killing tourists and athletes by the hundreds, I won't watch anything with one exception. The marathons might be entertaining just to watch runners bleeding from their lungs in the second half of the run.