It's been a long day and I'm tired. I'm going home and doing an Olympic gold medal nose dive into the bed!
by M & MOB October 7, 2013

It's interesting how the judges seem to focus more on the mistakes an athlete makes even if the athlete has done a routine like nobody else, something that is theirs, something that is them. That's one of the worst things about the Olympics, there is really no such thing as better or worse routine, and yet they have an entire international event dedicated to grading which routine was better or worse, and that's what athletes are taught, they have to get a certain score. It's like grading what food is better or worse, some people like pizza and hate Chinese food and some people like Chinese food and hate pizza, the whole thing gets silly.
Olympic judges seem like the worst kind of people, instead of the Olympic games being the games that they are, people get the impression that all this stuff is the most serious thing in the world if they listen too closely to the judges.
by The Original Agahnim August 3, 2021

The Olympic games, of all things, are not something to panic over. They're just games, win or lose. Holding nothing sacred but winning is not the point, and you wouldn't panic unless you're someone that holds nothing sacred, because then you'd feel like you had to win.
The uber competitive girl always put the same unrealistic pressure on everybody else that she tried to make it look like people were putting on her, when in reality she had always just been uber competitive about everything, and wanted to turn other people into her. Not everybody thought the Olympic games was a make or break event the way she did.
by The Original Agahnim July 27, 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 9, 2021

The outrage olympics began when someone used the word "crippled" to describe the differently-abled person.
by Orangeboxman May 9, 2017

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 27, 2021

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