I stopped watching the Olympics completely around the time they had the NBA players start competing (early Nineties??)
The last Olympics I watched intensively was the 1976 Winter Olympics, then I began losing interest.
I did watch a lot of hockey 1n 1980 because I was playing a lot at that time and was really into it (I HATED the Soviet hockey team) and that was a good time.
I don’t know exactly what it was that made me lose interest, but I have as much interest in it now as I do in watching Oprah, which is exactly none.
The British and Europeans think the whole world is waiting with baited breath for the Olympics to start and that the competition has world-wide importance. My European friends don’t believe me when I say that in the US, most people don’t give a damn and many don’t know where or when the games take place.
Personally, I don’t care and won’t be watching them.