I can't bring myself to. The Olympics lost something when competition stopped being about self-mastery. If you look at the ancient Olympic Games or maybe even just several decades ago, competition wasn’t just “who runs fastest.” It was embedded in religion, civic honor, and virtue. Excellence includes discipline and character. There was a seriousness to it...
The modern Olympics branding, broadcasting, social media, and the Olympic Village basically being treated like a giant adult summer (winter) camp. I know people say the sex, the substance use, etc... is just stress relief or “they’re adults, who cares.”
But to me, sex isn’t recreational stress relief. It’s powerful. It shapes you. So, when the highest level of competition, something that should represent extreme focus and self-command, is surrounded by that kind of culture, it feels off. Debauched.
I guess the heart of the matter is how competition is viewed: Is it sacred or is it a spectacle? What is elite sport actually for?
I cannot really cheer for team USA because I know a majority of these athletes do not represent these things. Though I can see and recognize achievement, it doesn’t inspire loyalty or emotional investment for me because the underlying values are absent.
Dude I didn't even watch the Olympics I almost qualified for two decades ago. It isn't sacred and hasn't been since the Soviets were allowed to blatantly cheat for decades during the Cold War.
Honestly, live tv in this day and age is just asking to be propagandized and rewarding them for it with viewership. All tv is spectacle, and it's up to you to choose what kind you want.
The biggest power the consumer has is refusal.
Nobody really cares, but more people are watching this winter Olympics than 2022, where viewership dropped by more than half, ostensibly due to COVID. So viewership increases by 93% from an all-time low, reaching roughly three quarters of the 2018 audience and they're calling that a win.
How is that supposed to work? People are stuck inside, so they watch less TV? Weird, you'd think the network execs would at least come up with an excuse that makes sense.
The broadcasts sucked assssssssss.
Same as what happened with most domestic sports.
The Olympics is supposed to be about spectacle and inclusion. If you're having events in empty buildings without seeing participants getting cheers and hugging each other it seems pointless. For me watching sports, like baseball, during that time made everything look like practice with no real tension of teams trying to win.
It’s just stupid because jews are working so hard to dissolve borders while they put on this shit show that’s kinda supposed to be about which nation is most athletic, skilled and graceful in some cases. If the world is one giant international hotel, who gives a shit what nation is the most athletic or whatever?
My wife and I turned it on last week to see what was going on. It was all damn commercials. Even the commercials were made to look like Olympic events. It was the same on over the air programming vs the free trial of Peacock TV I have. I didn’t even stick around to see which niggers they elevated for being an oddball in White sports.
I used to love the Olympics, I would even take a couple days off work to watch it. Then nbc absolutely ruined it with insane amounts of commercials and emotional backstory bs for women.
At most, it’s 25% sports and 75% bs now. Haven’t watched a minute of it this year
Precisely when I stopped watching. Every athlete had a sob story about a family member with cancer or some other bullshit. It was all sob stories and ads, when all I wanted to see were crazy sports. Of course, they only aired the sports we are good at, when I'd rather see crazy shit I don't normally see, like badminton. Whole thing was an absolute travesty, and there is no doubt it's even worse now 30 years later.
I watched a documentary on the 2002 Brazilian World Cup squad, and one of the coach's core tenets was abstinence. For 40 days, none of the players so much as slapped a prostitute's buttcheek. And no-one could touch them on the field.
So many athletes throw away their potential by external distractions, be that women, drugs or other bullshit they can focus on when they're retired.
Nothing makes me hate a person or a group of people more than hearing about how they have sex.
Fuck no. The Olympics are bullshit and have been for over a decade.
Great post. I guess the Olympic Village antics are mostly out in the open now, versus the 2000s where mainstream news ran articles about Shaun White asking out Sasha Cohen and getting turned down (how innocent).
Seeing the Israelis in the comp kind of ties that whole theme together too, as they are basically symbols of state-enforced debauchery and excess now. They commit ethnic cleansing and flaunt their right to participate, making a mockery out of the moral order that they themselves imposed on us. Their culture, the self-proclaimed gay capital of the world where hostages get plastic surgery because they felt undesired by their captors, is basically the apex and the source of modern hedonism.
All that being said, Alysa Liu is such a cutie and I'm so into her. I even forgive the weird lip ring.
No.
If I wanted satanic propaganda shoved down my throat, I'd join a cult.
The Olympics are just espn 8 the Ocho but less entertaining
Not a single second.
They turned it on in one of the conference rooms here at work so people could stop by and watch every now and then. All the times I've walked past it's just blaring away to an empty room.
I try to watch my favorite sports in highlight reels, but CBC seems to have a monopoly on them on YouTube (I'm too lazy to look elsewhere) and they're not only piss-poor but highly inconsistent!
A 15+ minute "last end" of curling, but no 10 minute recap of the game? Huh?
Hockey (men's & women's) Curling (Men, women & mixed doubles) for the winter Olympics. Nothing else is interesting at all. Figure skating has been rigged since the 70's: they should just post the final results before the games start! (Hey! My Mum used to be a fanatic so with 1 TV I ended up watching a lot of it, lolz!)
It's to force people to pay for access..all events do this. You can't even watch a fucking dog show for free these days.
I won't watch anything with woke propaganda ads or content. So that limits me to boxing and MMA.
At the locals bars. That is it.
Agree
There's a whole article about a team choosing to isolate covid style, and how dare that team go out to eat and test positive for covid. It's very clearly a kink to them.
Yeah, currently watching speed skating and have been checking out curling. I did a curling class a while ago and it's a pretty fun sport. I also was watching skeleton/luge for a while, and it's crazy how fast they go. There have been some really fun moments.
I am in the camp of "who cares" when it comes to sex/substance. For all we know, that was happening in the earlier games. In fact, as early as 1988 they didn't crack down on sex, they just cracked down on outdoor sex which had become out of control in the olympic village. Goes to assume that indoor sex was just as, if not more prominent. Sex may not feel like recreational stress relief for you, but it certainly is for others.
Either way in all the broadcasts I've seen, not a single one has mentioned sex. It's all been about the sport, and the athletes themselves. I don't care about "honor" and certainly not religion when it comes to the sports. I want to see who runs fastest, who jumps highest, who throws furthest, who has the best technique.
I genuinely cannot remember a time when olympics were "serious." Maybe you're much older, but as I remember it's always kind of been "summer campy"
Sex should be criminalized outside of marriage.
Nah. I like sex
I think he means "with other people" eh? 😹
He's a literal incel mad at others getting busy and should be ignored for his pants on head tard takes.
Check his post history lamenting no women want him... while making no effort to actually put himself in a situation women might even see him in the first place.
I can't even find young women.
Lol no he means single people shouldn't be able to have sex.
So you're in favour of performance drugs, cybernetic enhancements, etc?
If they started down that direction that actually might be enough to make me give a shit.
No, I’m not. For the Olympics it should be about an athletes natural abilities
Not sure how you jumped to that conclusion from my comment lol
Ah, I see. Fair enough!
I will rephrase. I do care about honor in the framework of competition.
Why not have a holistic approach to honor?
If honor is real and has meaning - shouldn’t the same virtues that govern how you compete also govern how you live, how you treat others, how you train, how you speak, how you spend your free time?
Is honor situational (limited to the arena) or integrative (defining the whole person)?
Not necessarily, no.
If I were competing in the olympics, there is certain honor and integrity to the games where we are seeing the pinnacle of human achievement. If I were competing among friends in a lighthearted game, I tend to be someone who bends and even breaks rules to my advantage. I will lie and play a sneaky game to win because my friends and I have fun with that sort of thing.
The thing with "it's always been like this," especially about sex, is that Western civilization has been degenerating our entire lives, in large part due to sex. I believe you're largely correct, but that just shows the huge scope of the problem.
I guess in terms of the Olympics I’m not sure what the benefit is of restricting sex in the scope of competition. It’s not like it takes away athletes abilities in the game.
General broadcasting isn’t really talking about it. Stories just get picked up by tabloids and then spread around. I have coverage in in the background because I like seeing the competitions, but I’ve never heard any MSM broadcasters talk about sex, only the events and training.
Well, first of all, sexual freedom is killing us. So knowing that the Olympics is one of the peaks of civilization-destroying behavior is inherently depressing.
In reference to the Olympics themselves, though, they aren't just about athletics. The original purpose of the games was to foster sportsmanship among the countries of the world and elevate the human spirit. Athletics is a necessary but insufficient property of that mission. Now you could argue that's all a bunch of crap, but the more the Olympics becomes a compartmentalized, mechanistic athletic meet, the more it deteriorates. Various scandals like the conditions at Sochi and Brazil become more common - why not? That's how people behave in crass, transactional relationships.
You could say that the Olympics is a case study in Western civilization, which requires the population at large to hold high-minded values. As people start to lose trust in those values, because they see that they don't in fact exist anymore, things progressively fall apart, as we see everywhere today.
I really wish people would stop being so dramatic that they think something is “killing” us when really they mean the birthrate is declining. Nobody is getting “killed” when there is more sexual freedom lol.
But I don’t really get your second paragraph.
So what would you propose as a change to the game to better foster sportsmanship/spirit? What needs to be added/what has been taken away?
Being below replacement rate is actually a bigger crisis than terrorist attacks or other disasters. It determines whether your people and civilization will continue existing as well as the well-being and quality of life of people in the present. Modern attitudes toward sex are far from the only contributor, of course, but they're a big one.
I would change the Olympics according to broken windows theory. Enforce a standard on opening and closing ceremonies so nuclear blights like Paris don't happen. Enforce stricter codes of conduct on PED regulations and athlete behavior. End the anti-traditional political grandstanding like the flirtations with tranny athletes. Ban Israel. Basically, taking steps to take "role model" status more seriously.
Fucking lol
What sorts of standards?
Yeah, really funny that whites are a minority of high school seniors now.
Ceremonies must adhere to boundaries of Western classicism even if they don't have the aesthetics of such.
Millions of male suicide victims would disagree with you
Or they might agree with me.
Guess we'll never know.
This event is terrific! Everyone loves it.
I have a hard time caring about the athletes. To me, if someone comes from an affluent family then spends their whole childhood dedicated to a sport while being trained by the best coaches in the world, them winning the event loses its appeal to me.
I want to see Bob, the accountant who snowboards for fun on weekends go up against Tim the car salesman who used to be friends with Bob and they snowboarder together until Tim fucked Bob's now ex-gf.
Countless countries, with China really being the modern prime example, have already proven that all winning takes at the Olympics is whoever devotes the most amount of resources to winning. That's not interesting to me. Certain countries always win certain events simply because those countries have the best trainers, facilities and sponsorships to train for those events. I want to see any country be able to take the medal in any event because all the competitors are real amateurs.
I think the Worlds events should be for the professionals who train for events. The Olympics needs to go back to true amateurs only.
on the sex aspect: maybe Olympians are having copious amounts of sex, or maybe not. That is the reported message based on Olympic branded condoms taken from the hotel concierge by competitors.
but let me ask you this, if you were a competitive Olympian offered free condoms with 2026 Olympic livery, you too would take as many as you could for your own personal use that night, or to give to your friends, or to use yourself with your significant other over a period of later time. Because that is hilarious.
I know I would
Condoms expire, that's why I've never bought one.
obviously you have never used them. Condom expiration dates are 3+ years.
What's your point? I've never had sex and I doubt it will happen in the next three years.
you proved my point, retard.
Dont talk so confidently about things you have no experience or understanding. how hard is that?
Fuck the Olympics. It's a festival by and for the cabal who want me dead. Why would I watch that