I’m just interested in watching a bunch of OR go down due to shoes. It’ll be a circus. Oh, and it’ll be fun to watch man-bun get lapped in the 10.
I’m just interested in watching a bunch of OR go down due to shoes. It’ll be a circus. Oh, and it’ll be fun to watch man-bun get lapped in the 10.
By not watching all you are doing is disrespecting the athletes that have trained for years to be there. Do you think when an athlete is on the medal stand with the national anthem playing they will care about how many people are in the stands or Japan's immigration policies?
I doubt it. They are still representing their country and they still have to compete against the best the world has to offer. Don't be act like a spoiled child who can't get everything he wants and support the athletes who deserve to be there.
rockcat wrote:
By not watching all you are doing is disrespecting the athletes that have trained for years to be there. Do you think when an athlete is on the medal stand with the national anthem playing they will care about how many people are in the stands or Japan's immigration policies?
I doubt it. They are still representing their country and they still have to compete against the best the world has to offer. Don't be act like a spoiled child who can't get everything he wants and support the athletes who deserve to be there.
Supporting the athletes would've meant moving the Olympics to a free society like Utah or Florida
I won't turn it on one time. Not out of protest, but out of lack of interest. My fandom, and even my passing interest, in elite track and field evaporated years ago. I just don't find it entertaining in the least.
I only log onto letsrun to read about things that might help MY running (and for the rare funny troll post), not to follow the elites. I don't care about them at all.
I know you are going to watch it or follow it.
jamin wrote:
rockcat wrote:
By not watching all you are doing is disrespecting the athletes that have trained for years to be there. Do you think when an athlete is on the medal stand with the national anthem playing they will care about how many people are in the stands or Japan's immigration policies?
I doubt it. They are still representing their country and they still have to compete against the best the world has to offer. Don't be act like a spoiled child who can't get everything he wants and support the athletes who deserve to be there.
Supporting the athletes would've meant moving the Olympics to a free society like Utah or Florida
That was never going to happen and you know it. And the athletes had no say in the matter. By boycotting the Olympics you are thumbing your nose at the athletes who earned the right to proudly represent their country.
jamin wrote:
rockcat wrote:
By not watching all you are doing is disrespecting the athletes that have trained for years to be there. Do you think when an athlete is on the medal stand with the national anthem playing they will care about how many people are in the stands or Japan's immigration policies?
I doubt it. They are still representing their country and they still have to compete against the best the world has to offer. Don't be act like a spoiled child who can't get everything he wants and support the athletes who deserve to be there.
Supporting the athletes would've meant moving the Olympics to a free society like Utah or Florida
You should have done that then.
Jamin, help me understand.
So you are saying that since the Olympics are going to be held, (delayed by one year until the health conditions of the general population at large had improved,) without live spectators, you are advocating that we completely not spectate at all.
So, your answer to the approach of limiting spectators is to totally abolish spectating (via your proposed viewer boycott).
Good luck with that.
Pretty sure there will be 1000 spectators during track.
Watching the olympics for a variety of reasons: marathon, basically will be a time trial, could be interesting. Surfing and skateboarding are new. They could are less about spectators in those sports. There's some mixed medley relays in swim. They are frigging underwater. They don't care about spectators. Beach volleyball is also a good sport to watch. Rock climbing is new?
jamin wrote:Let's hold the Olympics in a country that allows zero immigration, where the widely popular opinion was that they didn't want to hold it this year.
Who is immigrating? I think that they are just there for the Olympics which would only require a tourist visa or possibly a work/volunteer visa.
I will watch, in answer to your Q.
The Olympics are always flawed to some degree. Mexico City massacre of 3000 protesting students just weeks before the games. Terrorism and murder in Munich. African boycott in '76 and US boycott in '80 dilute the competition. Rio was far from perfect to say the least.
Does Olga Kharlan have the lock on Fencing Gold?
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You like to be insulted, don't you?
jamin wrote:
Let's hold the Olympics in a country that allows zero immigration, where the widely popular opinion was that they didn't want to hold it this year.
yes 100%
jamin wrote:
What a damn shame. The athletes all had to miss the real Olympic year, then they're treated to this joke that Japan is putting on. Sports teams and players had to go a year playing with no specators and with any achievement having an asterisk due to watered-down competition. The guys and girls who only get to have their big tournament once every 4 years had to wait an extra 1 year for nothing of an improvement over whatever lame "Olympics" could've been held last year anyways.
I don't agree that it is a farce. The competition is the competition whether there are fans there or not. Fans don't make the Olympics what it is.
That isn't to say that the IOC isn't an bloated, corrupt organization. But this year is not different in any competitive respect.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Dog Trainer Elite wrote:
Any vaccine side effects for you?
wait a few years and we'll see.
A few decades, really.
So we are to assume none of your children have ever been vaccinated? (Currently, 16 vaccines – some requiring multiple doses at specific ages and times – are recommended from birth to 18 years old?
Bad Wigins wrote:
Dog Trainer Elite wrote:
Any vaccine side effects for you?
wait a few years and we'll see.
A few decades, really.
I predict less than 2600 severe vaccine side effects
they still gonna put some fast people on a line so they can race?
because if so, then my answer is "yes"
jamin wrote:
Does Olga Kharlan have the lock on Fencing Gold?
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You really are a special person, Jamin. You deserve all the joy you find in life.
100% plan to watch. Every Olympics has some complicating aspects. Boycotts in 1976, 1980 and 1984. Grumble sure, but watch sure. Still great events.
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