2008 Olympics – Do I Care?

As a kid, I always longed for the Olympics to come on TV again.  I didn’t care if it was the Winter or the Summer games – it was all fun to watch.  Of course, it was the most fun to watch when America won the contests.  It showed that America was the best.

But then America began getting professional athletes from home and from abroad, in an effort to guarantee victory.  Only on the American teams would you find Asian, Hispanic and African athletes.  For the China teams, you’d only see Chinese athletes.  For Mexican teams, you’d only find Mexicans.  I’m not a racist or anything, but does something seem a little off?  Yes, I agree that there are a lot of people from around the world that simply love America and want to live here.  But Americans should represent America – not everyone else.  I won’t go into a lot of the politics that are going on behind the scenes to get these foreign athletes to compete for America.

Which brings me to my real reason for hating the Olympic games lately.  For the past several cycles of the Olympic games, it seems that you hear about nothing but the politics surrounding the games.  I’m sure 99.9% of you are aware that the games are in China this year.  Lots of people are protesting the games because of how China is violating human rights.  I honestly just simply haven’t cared for the past few years because it’s always ‘something’.  I realize the world is falling apart politically, but when its stories are mixed in with everything, it gets a little tiring to hear about it.  I suppose the key here is that I, along with many of you I’m sure, need a break from all the political mumbo-jumbo every once in a while.

So if I don’t care, then why am I even bothering to write about it, you may ask?  I suppose this is my own little form of protest.  Although I technically don’t care enough about it to protest, so I guess this is more of a 4-paragraph essay about me not caring.