The things that bother you about them are real. They are issues far greater than the Olympics. I just try to see the best in it, and save the fight for a different day. Kinda like movies, suspension of disbelief.

I learned through that incident that these athletes take this way way too seriously. The children start at early ages, if they show promise, they often go and live with a strange family and work under a coach. Coaches often work their students to the bone.

You have young ladies, who when they start developing, are often too old to compete. Sorry, but if you need to retire at age 14, what is it that we are doing,

I have always watched, even as a child, feeling bad because we go against undeveloped countries and American in training have every advantage.

Then, there is the corporation who wants you to wear their name all over you. So, we watch really closely the beautiful clothing designs to see if Nike is on it or Adadidas. Now, we have the most exclusive designers in the world, Stella McCartney for one, designing garments.

Swimmers from Spain has to use other swimsuits from those they brought because they had lights on them.

This stuff plus the drugs…………..sorry, but I do not like it. In America they take these sports and put them under the lab. They design bikes, equipment, everything to the advantage of the person who gets to use it.

And then, there is horrendous and STUPID attitude that if you don’t get a medal you are a loser. HOW STUPID. The person has given up his life to be there, at lest the last year of his life, and he doesn’t get credit just for being good enough to be there. I CALL THAT BAD SPORTSMANSHIP.

Olympiads should be people who use no additional equipment or drug or costume to win. They should all have the same outfits, the same training rules (that exclude living away from home for a year to be coached,) advertisers should be excluded and they should have NO special equipment. To me, that is just cheating—->I ride a bike that has all the bells and whistles while someone from Albania doesn’t. I think that training should be limited to 2 hours a day or something like that. This way, they all have the same chance, advertisers don’t own them, and the contest is about how good the athlete is versus who has been sculpted the most.

I don’t call what we have now “sports,” I call it a bunch of little freaks who don’t know how to relate to other school children because their lives are so lopsided.

Want me to get started on pro sports???