You are so right. They've gone downhill since "The Dream Team," haven't they?
They sure have. The Olympic games that I have enjoyed the most are those that were played under "classic" rules - The 72 games, scarred by the murder of the Israeli athletes but redeemed for me by Mark Spitz; the awesome performance of the US hockey team at Lake Placid in 80; and the summer games in LA in 84. 88 must not have made much of an impression on me, since I don't really have any great memories from that year. Anything since has been a pale copy of what the Olympics used to be.