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Originally Posted by Boblobla
TBQH, I think a political reason for not watching the games is worse than not caring. The olympics are not supposed to be a soap box for every hippy out there to tell the world the evils of China. It is the one time that people are supposed to put that aside and celebrate amateur (for the most part) athletics.
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You must have the Olympics confused with some other sporting event. It hasn't been about celebrating amateur sport for a few decades now.
It is now a ersatz war game where the "winning" country is the one that gets the most medals, and where the host country spends untold billions of dollars trying to outdo the previous host country in gaudy show business numbers that would fit in perfectly in Las Vegas. It has also been politicized since the West boycotted Moscow in 1980 and the Soviet Bloc boycotted LA in 1984.
You might as well worry about the virginity of a crack ho as the sanctity of the Olympics.