The title question is a good one. I stopped caring a long time ago. American athletes protesting America is not acceptable to me.
I lived in Huntsville Alabama during one of the Olympics. The network (ABC, or NBC, or CBS) commentator went on and on about a Canadian woman swimmer. An American swimmer, from Huntsville, came in second beating out the Canadian. The announcer said, more than once, that the American had robbed the Canadian of second place. There was no contact or any impropriety and none was alleged. She just swam faster.
The American girl was the granddaughter of one of the German scientists who came with Werhner von Braun. Talk about holding a grudge. There were no positive words for the American who won silver in that event. F the networks.
Anything that garners more than a modicum of attention is going to be spammed with Leftist politics. Parades, TV shows, movies, sports, even churches. I don’t want to see any of it as it turns my stomach. Now I read because the moment I get to, “his husband” or “global warming” or anything about alphabet people and their pronouns, it’s on to the next article or book.
Yes, it’s this crap and the melodramatic personal stories about athletes that made me quit watching. I was done when an American woman won gold in shooting and we got one sentence about it and a 20 minute hardship story about about some Eastern European gymnast or weightlifter.
I want to see the competitions where the Americans win or do well, no matter the sport. I want to see every medal ceremony where our flag was raised without commentary and hear from that athlete without the interviewer being so awful the athlete has nothing to say.
The parade of nations used to be fun until the verbal diarrhea of the commentators got in the way.