I don’t care for the Olympics

Ξ August 9th, 2008 | → | ∇ |

Apart from the opening ceremony which I want to watch in HD, I can’t understand the desire to watch people who can throw stuff or run fast. Why is the Olympics so concerned with physical attribution and not mental? We do have the Nobel prize but that is awarding a lifetimes research. There’s no “here’s 100 math questions - how fast can you do them correctly?”

The Olympics is not a sporting event, it’s purely entertainment. Why is the 100M sprint “more important” than the 10k? Sadly because 10 seconds is how long people’s attention and excitement lasts. Freud would have a field day with that statement.