And, plus, "higher, faster, stronger" feeds the culture of steroids-as-necessity...

[lannamichaels]

So on a day when I am glued to the BBC and NYTimes's live blogs of the opening ceremony and I am all OLYMPICS YAY SQUEE I AM ALL AGLEE and even with this, CONFLICTED OLYMPICS WHY MUST YOU BE SO HORRIBLE, I just gotta say

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[atanvarne_lj]

Yes, all of this.

So mad at NBC I could spit. I'm on the west coast and have to wait another three and a half hours for the tape-delayed Opening Ceremonies. And then they don't cover Sport, they turn the Olympics into a Lifetime Movie of the Week.

[lannamichaels]

And then they don't cover Sport, they turn the Olympics into a Lifetime Movie of the Week.

THIRTY MINUTE LONG FLUFF PIECES.

ABOUT THE *COUNTRY*, NOT EVEN AN ATHLETE.

And they do this in non-Olympics, too. Every sport that's not a "real" one gets covered like it's some heartwarming blah blah blah blah blah, not like it's a goddamn *competition*.

[sk8rpssockpup]

And the corporatism goes up to new levels and when my mom declares we should boycott I can only think she's right...and with twenty minutes to go before NBC's embargo finally at least gives us something to watch I've been counting down to this all day.

[lannamichaels]

Well, I don't spend any money on it (I don't even have cable), and I'm not a nielsen family, so I guess I'm boycotting it in effect ;)

[anonymous]

my thoughts exactly.

NBC thinks this is a fluffy movie that just happens to be about athletes at a sports competition

indeed. they really overemphasize the whole "history in the making" aspect of it.

[lannamichaels]

Yeah, they prop the stakes up really high. And then someone, gasp, doesn't win, and so now it's become a tragedy, because NBC was pumping up expectations and blowing a lot of air, and then the athlete didn't win, so it's time to rip them down again. I fucking hate that cycle. Life is not a film and these are people, not characters.