LOLympics legastainability: withdrawal and hangover, thus far.

[alaimacerc]

Some thoughts on the Olympics, recycled from the unsuspecting QI forum.  Probably tl;dr for there, and what's worse, it's grown in the meantime...

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[mr_malk]

I enjoyed the Olympics. I usually do, which is slightly surprising in some ways. I'm not even vaguely interested in most of the events in it most of the time, and the World Championships certainly doesn't get me to sit down and watch them, but there is some magic about the Olympics that all the money and corruption that so clearly permeate the Olympic organisation as a whole fails to snuff out

[alaimacerc]

I do agree about the "magic". At the risk of us both sounding like Andrew Roberts, this time. The athletics might be the core of it, but on their own at the WCs, there's something a little... brisks and clinical about it, without the minority sports with their inflated medal counts, privileged access, and general silliness