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

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    1 month 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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      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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      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