UPDATE, 2.22: They're calling it "a disaster." NBC suffered 50% drop in viewers. Pissed off marque losers headed for therapy. Birng back ABC! (moments later, from googling) Good grief, I see that we're stuck with NBC through 2032. Recall! Recall!
Nathan Chen, from quad to quad to quad
Anybody watching it?
I looked and deflated, all those empty seats, so sad and depressing. The High and Mighty Americans were gutless in not boycotting the games rather than using them as a platform to bash China. Yes, there is plenty about China to bash, but not at the Olympics, which is supposed to be an international athletic completion. The Chinese may coerce and exploit children through Olympic training. Over here, seems that hordes of young female gymnasts are sexually exploited by their coaches.
Those who culture signal are like Kapernick "taking the knee" on his paymaster's time. Collecting more than most people could ever hope of earning, and then using game time to promote a fake cause before captive crowds.
Another thing, I love ice skating, but am put off by the self-precious look-at-me-and-deal-with-it Johnny Weird, a neon advertisement for the gender-less society. When last I toiled to endure him, he was obviously pleased with himself in flaunting his LGBQT++++ credentials** Daring the hard-working center to try figuring him out. This is not a commentator; this is a social radical making a sideshow of himself.
Quad mania. I did manage to watch Nathan Chen's Gold skating in replay. He is one magnificent athlete. But, it looks as if these skaters are competing to jam as many quads as they can get into a program, which can render the routine short on artistic contrast and mood, long on horse racing mentality. Boooring.
And NBC itself comes in for some blame. When I got serious about watching their coverage in the past, I could never find accurate scheduling in order to know when what I wanted to watch would appear. I hated NBC for this.
And I read this sad sad affair may pull the lowest Olympic coverage ratings in years. I was one of the no-shows.
The greedy IOC is as much to blame as anybody. They should have postponed the games. They would have done everyone a favor.
Besides which, okay, I hold a grudge. My own sport (yes, laugh) is or was roller skating. They came close many years ago to getting roller hockey in. Then, the president of the IOC, Juan Samaranch, was himself an avid roller hockey player and fan. He could have made it happen but did not, the gutless coward. Likely he was lobbied and gifted by a cunning ice lobby bribing away to keep those on wheels out. Believer it or not, there are forms of roller competition, such as school figures and regulation (ballroom type) dance, arguably superior to how they are skated over blades.
** Now on the Dramatist Guild website is an insanely long listing of various "genders" one can give for whomever the hell, in their protected opinion, they happen to be at the moment. I could not believe my eyes.
Life in Woke-Joke America. Were I now dating in any lane, I would love to have an app on my iPhone able to sense the reality of intimate candidates: GAB -- Gender At Birth.
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