The circus that is the Olympics.
If you think the Olympic big top is a joke, the illusion that the Olympic games are serious and meant to be taken seriously might be lost. Then they might have to rescript the whole thing, that's no fun.
by The Original Agahnim August 3, 2021
by Ghrim Vortex November 28, 2016
Why does it matter whether someone is a conservative tennis player or a liberal soccer player if they are trying to win a medal and not a vote?
The Olympics is not an election or a political rally, so what does politics have to do with any of it?
by The Original Agahnim August 9, 2021
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 5, 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