Olympic Games Retrospective
Did we just have the Olympic Games? I didn’t realize!
Talk about a snore after the most momentous and exciting round of playoff games in the NFL’s history! Who gave a crap about the Olympics? Not too many people as it turned out. This year’s Winter Olympics boasted the lowest TV ratings in the history of the event. And deservedly so in my opinion.
To be truthful, I did watch almost an entire hour (in total) of the Games, and found them boring. But beyond being put to sleep, there were two events that confirmed my opinion that the Winter Olympic games deserved to be as unwatched as they were.
The first concerns a 15-year-old Russian skater who I’m guessing was unaware she’d been fed a banned substance to ensure the “perfect” performance. I truly felt for that child. So much pressure — on such a frail and waifsh little girl. And when she failed? Did “coach” console her? Hells no. She got the weak douchebag treatment. Really ugly.
In my view, the Olympic games are a proxy for war. At least in the view of Russia, a country that will do anything and break any rule to emerge victorious in that war. And that teenager became the vitcim.
Yesterday, I took 30 minutes to watch some kind of half-pipe/free-style skiing competition. It’s one of those new-fangled deals that combines extreme sports with traditional skiing, and involves athletes flying through the air at frightening heights performing outrageously dangerous flips and stunts.
The boys are trained and not likely to get injured despite the danger — that is — until the wind kicks up to near hurricane velocities effectively decelerating the skiers momentum.
By the end of the competition, not one skier could finish his run owing to the wind. And finally, the last competitor caught a gust and ended up landing on his head. Fortunately, after five minutes, he got up and walked away without suffering paralysis.
Exactly why the competition continued when clearly, the weather was a huge factor which rendered every skier powerless against the elements, was explained away by Mike Tirico after the scary fall: The weather prediction was as bad or worse for the next day — and the following day brought closing ceremonies. Thus, the Games had no choice but to finish the event.
Horseshit! Those skiers were risking their lives out there. And you’re worried about scheduling and closing ceremonies? Hey! Nobody’s watching anyway. What a dog and pony show. No wonder viewers hungry for the kind of excitement the NFL brought this year opted out regardless. Somehow we knew it was all a snore. But we had no clue as to the irresponsibility viewers witnessed. Really bad. Just an embarrassment. Feh!
