I read this article in Outside Magazine a couple days ago, and it just about perfectly sums up my feelings about the Beijing Olympics:
http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200806/olympic-boycott.html While I would love to see a bigger political boycott of the olympics, its clearly not happening. So, I'm going to follow this author's lead and boycott olympics on my television... perhaps lower ratings, will help with lower revenues and therefore help get the point across... perhaps.
Anyway, this year, I'm not going to follow my favorite sports. And I'm not going to follow the crazy sports that you only ever see on late night TV and the olympics, even though I might like to.