The Games are at a crossroads after scandals, political controversies and two pandemic effects. Network executives and Olympic leaders are counting on a reboot.
For parts of three decades, Bob Costas was the television face of the Olympics in the United States, leading NBC’s coverage of 11 Games and talking Americans through celebration, scandal and even a bomb in Atlanta. Eight years after his last Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Costas believes the Games have lost some of the magic that once made them mandatory viewing.
Maybe it’s because the past three Olympics were held in distant Asian time zones while America slept. Or perhaps it’s the sense that the two most recent Games, held in pandemic Tokyo and Beijing, seemed to happen less because of sport and more to meet the contractual obligations of sponsors and television networks. Or it might be the uncomfortable stench of human rights abuse swirling about the Beijing Games in 2022, followed four days later by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Olympics, he said, need “to get their groove back.”
The Olympics are just another scam to fleece the poor and line the pockets of the elite.
Toronto’s ex-Mayor John Tory had to secretly offer to host some second rate World Cup games on behalf of his cronies knowing that citizens would have said no if given a chance.
Costs have already doubled for what is nothing more than the elite theft of tax payer dollars.
Their idiot children will have cool summer jobs though, so there’s that.
