Well, the Closing Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics are happening now...but I can’t watch it. I got up early so I could watch it live. Unfortunately, NBC isn’t showing it live over broadcast. They’re showing it live on their streaming service, Peacock. AND... it’ll cost you a monthly subscription fee to watch it.
That being said, within the next couple hours, the Flame will be extinguished until it is re-lit for the Paris 2024 Summer Games. This time, I am not sad to see it go. In my opinion, these Games were a disaster, played in a country that should not have hosted them. (In fact, NO country with a totalitarian government should EVER be considered for an Olympics.)
The fallout from these Games may have generated a killing blow to the idea of the Games in general. Unless the IOC is willing to make wholesale changes in how it conducts its business and how the individual governing bodies of the various sports do theirs, the Games aren’t worth putting on.
I didn’t used to think this way, but after these Games...
I just shake my head in sadness and disgust.
The CCP bought the IOC, just as it bought the WHO, and half the politicians in the USA.
Australia is hosting it in 2032...