Anyone else over the Olympics already??

My itch is that they're funded with public money. If there's something that should be entirely private and funded by advertisers and such, is sports.

We're going to retire at 70+ and we're losing critical services (education, healthcare first and foremost), but rest assured the billions to throw at these financial blackholes (worst of all, to build infrastructure that will be used literally a couple of days and then left to rot) is always found.

I keep going back to it, but during the soccer match the commentators were talking about the fake grass and what you have to do to maintain it, and I switched off literally and figuratively.

I don't care about sports, and doping is an issue. I have no idea what it taking place in Paris has to do with interest though.

I have lost most of my interest in all sport really. Once you get away from it, it's importance fades.

@whowasthatmaskedman 🤔i agree i hate athletics at school 🤷‍♂️fair enough there are other disciplines too but i have not one slightest interest

I love athletics but it's been tainted for me by UKA the British selection committee who are only sending 35 athletes, 2 of whom had officially retired! Some of the others are in poor form whilst those in form are being overlooked. There has been a whole load of nonsensical rhetoric from the Chairman of UKA but I think he should resign over this, it's almost as if he doesn't have a CLUE BEYONG HEADLINE PERFORMERS.

Someone who still uses "I couldn't care less" is what caught my eye!

I literally dropped dead when I saw that!

😁 (just funnin' wit ya)

I never cared about it my whole life actually

I was over the Olympics in 1972

While it’s understandable to feel overwhelmed by the surrounding issues, the Olympics can still be a beacon of unity and inspiration. It’s a chance for people from diverse backgrounds to come together, celebrate human achievement, and find moments of joy and hope.

Exactly!!!

As a Marine Johannes fan, I'm hoping to be able to see the French Women's Basketball Team, but that's about it.

Gotta love the Cauldron though!

I've always been an aquatic athlete myself, but there's a certain amount of insecurity that lurks behind one's desire to compete in the Olympics against other people who are just as insecure about their athletic performance, which is why they're all there in the first place. They all want someone else to tell them through the awarding of a medal, that they meet someone else's standard or approval of performance when judged against others who are at different levels of personal performance at all times. From the outset then, it's never a level playing field when competing against someone else.

But the bottom line is, someone's standard or approval of performance that is imposed onto other athletes is totally irrelevant at the end of the day and those who compete at the Olympics end up coming home, perhaps with a medal, but are not left feeling any more secure about their athletic ability or themselves, than they were when they first arrived at the Olympic village in the first place.

After all, the gold medal is based on someone else's opinion who isn't necessarily an athlete! Who then gives a shitt what they think? What relevance then does a gold medal have? None actually. Why then do people compete for gold medals? Why then do people come home sad and feeling diminished if they only bring home silver or bronze?

It's all about the 'gold', but a gold medal which is not really made of gold, is only awarded just like the silver and bronze, but of itself, a gold medal has no inherent meaning OTHER THAN the meaning we assign to it. A concrete statue of a soldier sitting on a horse has as much inherent meaning as an Olympic medal of any color. The meaning it has is the meaning we assign to it in the moment.

i forgot about the olympics lol