When someone calls trying to postpone or cancel, you would think they would answer with something like the Olympics has already been postponed a year. Other sports have continued on, so either they're going to do it or they're not, and it really doesn't matter which.
There's no point in postponing the Olymics further, there's already an Olympics every 4 years if one gets missed, and it's questionable whether any Olympics is even needed by anybody.
by The Original Agahnim June 05, 2021
The Olympics are just games, so at the end of the day, if you're an athlete, hopefully you do what you want to do no matter what, from winning a medal to having a good time and not winning anything at all. It's not about what other people want you to do, since they are not there. What makes people happy and doing what they love isn't being lost, being lost is not having found something you love to be doing.
The Olympics are games, and people sometimes turn them into something beyond human. Life is not a comic book.
by The Original Agahnim July 28, 2021
It's one thing for people that don't know the athletes to not go to the Olympics, but it really is a little bit fucked up to not allow the families of athletes in the buildings, which seems a lot like not letting the family of someone with the coronavirus in the hospital to visit. That doesn't seem like the way to treat people, and why should anybody that does treat people that way be trusted?
People want to be there for their family members to cheer them on even during hard times, and times that aren't fairweather days. The Olympics is no different than any other sports event in that sense, even if the scale is thought to be grander.
by The Original Agahnim July 29, 2021
Some of these younger folks seem quicker to change the guard than people from earlier in their generation or generations before. Michael Phelps had longetivity to his Olympic runs. Being unselfish isn't a bad thing, a lot of these folks will be together as a team for years to come, but just like vets can learn from the rookies, where would the Olympics be without the vets?
Vets do more than just usher in the new during the Olympics, so hopefully appreciation for them isn't lost for something newer that seems more momentarily exciting.
by The Original Agahnim July 30, 2021
Thank god they are over, people watching/playing sports will now have about 2 weeks of no major sporting events/competitions, and they will get to actually enjoy summer for being summer. For the people watching/playing the NBA Finals past mid July with the Olympics starting the same week, it really was getting silly. The NBA Finals ended over a month before that just a few years ago, and they never needed to go further than mid June. It was nice to have a full summer of no major sporting events/finals/playoffs, just casual regular season baseball games.
It didn't help the Olympics that they came right after the NBA Finals. People like to get a little summer in to enjoy it without thinking about what sporting event/competition is next, since that starts to get silly at a certain point. Not everybody wants a summer filled with competition after competition, it gets dull and silly at the same time.
by The Original Agahnim August 10, 2021
by neopronoun hoarder February 03, 2021
The circus that is the Olympics.
People treat the Olympics like it's not a joke, or it's one of those things that is like rape that you can't joke about, when really the whole thing is one big Olympic Big Top, meant for entertainment purposes. That's why they're called the Olympic games.
by The Original Agahnim August 03, 2021