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1 posted on 08/06/2021 9:00:14 AM PDT by Starman417
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I was never really Rah-Rah USA for the Olympics, I liked good stories about great athletes regardless of where they were from. Although, yes I always enjoyed when the Commies lost, especially the "Miracle on Ice".

But the fact is, a lot of athletes who compete for other countries, live and train right here in the US, and many have attended US Universities.

I care more about the medal count by University:







Go Gators!
2 posted on 08/06/2021 9:03:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Rapinoe has got to be one of the most repulsive, obnoxious anti-American sports figures in modern times.

She is the face of Subway restaurants. Tell me again why anyone would want to eat there?


3 posted on 08/06/2021 9:07:55 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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I think there is a fundamental change across the world that’s been going on for the past decade or so.

Olympic viewership down in

France 20-75% down
Germany down 75%
BBC down 61%


6 posted on 08/06/2021 9:09:34 AM PDT by mooncoin
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I didn’t watch any of, didn’t miss it, don’t feel bad at all.

I didn’t lose a thing. Feel the same way about major league baseball, NFL, and assorted other garbage entertainment run for the benefit of pampered, spoiled brats.


8 posted on 08/06/2021 9:12:42 AM PDT by Cboldt
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What bothered me about this year’s Olympics coverage is that our local news media barely mentioned the fact that the first American to win a gold medal (Lee Kiefer, in fencing) came from the city I live in, Lexington, KY. What’s more, she beat the Russians, who were favored to win, and her husband won the bronze in the same competition.


10 posted on 08/06/2021 9:14:02 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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WE watched the Olympics with the same fervor and eagerness, we now have for watching the NFL, NBA and MLB.

Zero!

Our sun continues to rise in the East and set in the West.


11 posted on 08/06/2021 9:14:55 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, China, Cuba, Canada, the UK, or Chicago! I'd move there! )
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Drama. Queen. Ingrates. Killed.Sports.

The next generation of athletes can learn to code...

16 posted on 08/06/2021 9:16:43 AM PDT by GOPJ (Socialism has been tried 41 times the last 100 years-and there are exactly 41 failures -John Mackey)
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Drama. Queen. Ingrates. Killed.Sports.

The next generation of athletes can learn to code...

19 posted on 08/06/2021 9:17:49 AM PDT by GOPJ (Socialism has been tried 41 times the last 100 years-and there are exactly 41 failures -John Mackey)
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I'm not watching the limpics....but I do review some contests on you tube....and I rejoice at Sidney and others like her....

there are still some good things at the limpics but you have to look for them...

23 posted on 08/06/2021 9:40:31 AM PDT by cherry
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Remember the days when everyone watched the Olympics to see America’s best athletes represent us on the world stage?]]

It was a huge deal in our house. Especially back before the days of cable TV, we only had a few channels, with not much worth watching really, but big events like boxing, Olympics, evil kneivil jumping snake river canyon, or whatever it was etc. We all lookEd forward to watching these ‘big events’ as a family, especially when national pride was on the line in the Olympics. We all felt a great sense of pride in the nation, especially when our team might have been the j derdogs, like the the miracle on ice, in upstate ny where our hockey team beat the ruskies. That was awesome!

What a disgrace the o.ymlics have become now though. I feel sorry for all the hard working country loving, God fearing athletes who have to suffer because of the actions of God hating, country loathing, wokesters and faux gender athletes ruined the k,ymlics for millions of proud Americans, and made a mockery of the games


25 posted on 08/06/2021 9:42:02 AM PDT by Bob434
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This what they forget:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KqrjeScLSI

wy69


28 posted on 08/06/2021 9:50:20 AM PDT by whitney69
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I know the level of wokeness coming into the Olympics was very high but the fact is that during the coverage there has been very little on display relative to the amount of pure sports coverage. Maybe I just have too much time on my hands but I’m enjoying it.


29 posted on 08/06/2021 9:56:40 AM PDT by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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“The Olympics – What We’ve Lost as Americans”

A metaphor for what America has lost...period.

All I care about is outstanding individual performances by decent, honorable athletes regardless of country. Names such as Jesse Owens, Billy Mills, Alberto Juantorena, Valerily Borzov, Guy Drut, Michael Johnson, Jeremy Wariner, Michael Norman, Flo jo, Daphne Schipper and so many more come to mind.


35 posted on 08/06/2021 10:56:11 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Though I always watched the Olympics in years past, I was always angered and frustrated by how the idiotic talking NBC heads made the games about themselves with their incessant studio time and their habit of limiting images of only certain hand-picked events, of which we were allowed to watch only the climaxing seconds. An app on some Apple black box now allows one to watch complete events, either live, in replay or as highlights, without that insipid dwarf costas messing it up.


36 posted on 08/06/2021 11:26:28 AM PDT by DPMD
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Eh, I never really got into the rah rah thing. Always thought it was counter to the real point of the Olympics as a celebration of sport and human excellence. Also the fact that Hitler and the USSR were the early adherents to using the Olympics to “prove” their superiority probably didn’t help. All the medal counts and “representing” and all that is just not interesting to me. Watch some cool sports you don’t watch a lot, maybe even something you never heard of. Don’t worry about the flags that might get raised at the end.


39 posted on 08/06/2021 11:40:32 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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Not to mention that ads these days are all about “diversity” so like sticking a fork in your eyeball.


41 posted on 08/06/2021 12:21:21 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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