I watched a part of the opening ceremony but I couldn't stand that relentless drum beat beating in my ears.
I didn't watch the closing ceremony. fear the drums !
"At least the Olympics are real" . . . are you sure about that?
It's no longer a competition between amateur athletes; it's not been a clean and truly fair sporting event for yonks.
Nowadays it's a vehicle for professional drugged-up pawns of the commercial interest concerns to strut their stuff wearing the colours of their country (it doesn't even have to be the colours of the country they were born in . . . winners are grinners, aren't they?)
The Olympic Games has been taken over and subverted by some very unsporting commercial concerns . . . they made some athletes compete at midnight Rio time? (I forget which sport that was)
Why would they do that if the best performance of the athletes was the prime concern?
Oh, it wasn't . . . the best performance of prime time television and all its associated product-pushing advertising was the prime concern.
This sort of thing reminds me of Sandra Bullock singing along to advertising jingles as if they were high culture in some movie I forget the name of now.
We once had an Olympic games where amateur athletes from various countries came together to compete in a clean contest (if you ignore the Russian component). and we had tv stations actually broadcasting all of an event live and not just serving up selected snippets for a local audience as a vehicle for the advertising-of-thneeds machine.
The Olympic Games along with the Gallipoli commemoration and almost every other event significant to a country's cultural heritage has been hi-jacked by the profit-generating machine of big business.
Vietnam seems to have woken up and nipped our latest tasteless grab for cash in the bud by cancelling the Long Tan spectacular tv event.
The Olympic medals are not even made from real gold anymore though they are larger and are therefore more visible on our tv screens.
Fake gold writ large which drugged up fake athletes compete for for fake reasons to peddle fake products to a fake sort of Stepford-esque "consumer group".
But that's not all folks . . . . there's the Winter Olympics coming to a store near you real soon.
fgs.
