my unpopular opinion is that they are a waste of time and effort.

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    653 months ago

    Honestly, not to be mean or anything, BUT, this sorta reeks of “I don’t like it so nobody else should.”

    This is a type of mentality that I believe to be highly negative and frankly kinda toxic. Your welcome to your opinion, but I really don’t think the many many hours, days, weeks, months, and years of effort, training and planning that goes into those who both run and participate in the Olympics is a waste of time and effort.

    Also we live in a world that you can just block or ignore anything you don’t particularly care for.

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        93 months ago

        The Olympics is a time to celebrate athletes in sports we don’t follow every day.

        I don’t watch baseball, soccer, basketball, etc at the Olympics because they all get plenty of air time.

        In the last week I watched water polo, gymnastics, breakdancing, volleyball, skateboarding, and more.

        There’s an event (modern pentathlon) that consists of pistol shooting, fencing, Horsemanship, running, and swimming. That’s a fascinating mix of disciplines and there are people who train for decades to be good at it, and I think it’s wonderful that they get their time in the spotlight every few years.

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        Hmm, an interesting take. The Olympics, being an international multinational event, being in a singular location could cause political tension between countries. It would have to be on neutral land for such a thing to work. Maybe some of that unclaimed land In Africa?

        Edit: messed up the formatting by accident.

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            13 months ago

            I mean that could work from my American perspective, I’m unsure about other parts of the world. Perhaps we shouldn’t care about those sort of silly high school level drama between nations? I don’t think I have enough understanding to know. But Switzerland is pretty so I’m down with it.

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      3 months ago

      “…so nobody else should”

      I don’t think OP ever said that, nor did they imply it. I interpret OP’s unpopular opinion as nothing more than “it’s not for me”.

      But I guess there is some room for ambiguity.

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        73 months ago

        Sure, but plenty of things I don’t like I still wouldn’t call a waste of time and effort.

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      33 months ago

      Also, if there’s any vision, aspiration for better, hope for improvement, expanding the limits of the human body is important, just as aspiring to ever improving science or technology

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      23 months ago

      Honestly, not to be mean or anything, BUT, this sorta reeks of “I don’t like it so nobody else should.”

      As someone who had to learn how to avoid these feelings after growing up with parents who felt this way about everything, OP is clearly just salty that people like something they don’t like.

      There are legitimate problems with the Olympics, and the scale of the spectacle, international attention and amount of people and money involved really lends itself to the worst of modern humanity. But that doesn’t mean nobody can enjoy them, that just means that the world needs to push to improve the Olympics further