[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I would actually respect McDavid if he opted out to focus on being healthy for the team that is paying him $12.5 million this year. I imagine if he opted out, other players would too. He has the most pressure of any player to play in China.

Going on a general Olympics rant now. Having one country spending insane amounts of money host every event, for many sports that they don't even care about, is just not a great use of resources. There is much better use for the money. It's just a dick waving competition for the host country and a display of decadence.

They should change it so that the events are spread around and hosted by countries that already have the facilities and actually care about the sports being played. For example, in a winter Olympics, Norway could host the skiing events, Canada could host hockey, Russia could host bobsled, France or Japan could host figure skating, etc..., and you could switch up the countries every Olympics so several countries get turns. In the summer, you could have USA hosting track, England hosting soccer, Germany hosting rowing, China hosting gymnastics, South Africa hosting swimming, etc...

Spread out the costs and limit the need for having to build and maintain new facilities.

Or just #### can the Olympics and focus on things like World Championships which in many sports is held in higher regard than the Olympics.