Is it just me or have the Olympics lost their appeal? Man, I used to love watching the Olympics but the last couple of times its come up I just didn’t care for it at all. Maybe its just me. I’m really hoping that’s the case, or maybe its losing its magic.

The Olympics are the most over-hyped thing on planet since Y2K. But unlike the excitement of experiencing that crazy cool once in a life-time computer glitch that we all thought was going to bring on Armageddon, the Olympics keeps coming back. It’s like an international, really well-financed version of herpes. No matter how hard you try to get rid of it, it painfully just keeps coming back.

Maybe one reason why I don’t care so much for the Olympics anymore is some athletes have ruined it for me. The Olympics used to be about competing for the love of the sport and showing off pride for ones country. Today, I feel its just tainted by so much political issues, product placement, and illegal drug use it hurts me.

I used to watch the Olympics with so much respect for the athletes and I used to really look up to them. But now because of all the steroid use I can’t just watch the Olympics anymore and enjoy it because I have that always in the back of my head, “They’re probably all super human because they use steroids”. The sad part is, a lot of them do and unless they come out, we’ll never really know for sure. So you just have to live with that, wondering, did they really win those medals on their own, or did enhancement drugs help them? It always only takes a few to ruin it for everyone.

I don’t hate the Olympics, in fact I used to love it. Its just disappointed me in recent years. I don’t know, like I said, maybe I’m just in one of those phases right now or maybe the Olympics are just getting worse. I hope its not the latter.

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