Is it just me, or did the Olympics actually mean something when we were younger?

[2 Up 2 Down]

Olympics were big in America when the Cold War was still popping. Also when America has an "enemy".
Personally I love the summer Olympics. COVID fukked up the vibe for the last one but I'm starting to get hyped for this one

 

[timeless]

Technology was different.
You were different.
The media was different.
So many changes and variables.

My family and I used to have movie nights growing up. Now we are all adults with families and different schedules. We make time every weekend to get together still. Watch movies, barbecue, sleepovers.

Maybe get together with some relatives and watch the Olympics like before? I'm sure the conversations would be totally different in some ways, but very nostalgic in others.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

Last good Olympics we Beijing. Nothing has topped those opening ceremonies

The next great Olympics will be in Africa. It'll be a showcase to the world that that nation is ready

 

[IVS]

Anybody else old enough to remember the Dan and Dave hype?

damn you took me back with that one

 

[concise]

shyt still means something we have a whole thread on Sha Carri Richardson with people arguing and shyt. It’s just the cycle to make new stars and Covid fukked the last one up.

Not just 1 thread, Several threads. And quite a few did numbers.

 

[Vandelay]

Hasn't really been a big deal for me since I was a kid in 96.

It's not that it's any less of event, I think there's just so much other stuff to be entertained by, it just doesn't feel like must see TV to me.

 

[JNew]

The “masses” have Netflix, videogames, instant this and that. The Olympics are at the bottom of the list.

Only refined people watch it now.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

I still fukk with the Olympics heavy. Since 2012 I’ve found more and more sports/activities to be interested in, streaming has given us access to more than the big 4/5 summer Olympic sports and ive come to appreciate what those competitors are out there doing

 

[Sad Bunny]

I’m excited to watch them especially tennis

TV isn’t an event as it once was so I’m pretty sure people feel that way about more than just the Olympics.

I haven’t been excited about television since Game of Thrones ended

 

[Elim Garak]

Events like that always seem cooler when you are a kid.

 

[Mowgli]

The fact that Brazillian Jiujitsu isn't an Olympic sport shows how pussified the Olympics have become. Treason to manhood

 

[F*ckthemkids]

Anybody else old enough to remember the Dan and Dave hype?

 

[F*ckthemkids]

The fact that Brazillian Jiujitsu isn't an Olympic sport shows how pussified the Olympics have become. Treason to manhood

No wrestling either. BJJ should def be apart of it

 

[jmegamar]

2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics are GOATed

Phelps and Lockte, Gabby Douglas, USA basketball running shyt. Jamaicans crushing everyone at track.
That shyt was fire every night

Was just gonna say this. Beijing opening was and still is amazing.

 

[Mowgli]

No wrestling either. BJJ should def be apart of it

Wrestling and judo are both part of the Olympics this year but it's time for Brazillian Jiujitsu to get it's place among the greats. Especially considering thar when pure judo and pure wrestlers enter grappling tournaments, they lose to Jiujitsu.



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