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Yeah true, its a depressing mess if you actually start to consider how corrupt and ill conceived the entire construct has become. But at the end of the day I do just like watching sports. I want to see a Russian weightlifter lift enough mass that the all the smaller competitors start to orbit him.
Sorry to derail important vuelta considerations. Who's everyones picks? Tour dropouts/flatliners or giro podiumers?
jupiz-
I agree, always liked the Olympics and watching weird, obscure sports, but you want it to be a celebration and given the state of Brazil its going to be hard to watch without that knowledge creeping through my appreciation of it.
But yes, back to the Vuelta, going to be great. I do like you never really know who's going to ride the thing until a couple of weeks before.
Jimmy_Fingers
Yeah but Rio. Surely this is the most depressing sporting prospect until the World Cup in Russia, then Qatar. The backdrop of a poverty-stricken society, corrupt government, the zika virus, unfinished venus/Olympic village, athletes being mugged on the street by people dressed as policemen. It's an Olympics you feel the people there don't want, and potentially one that could be like Montreal and saddle them with debt for years to come.
It's getting harder to enjoy this huge sporting events, once you start to appreciate the levels of commercialism and corruption that swirl around them. There has even been legal letters threatening companies that aren't sponsors of the game using Olympic related hashtags in their Twitter feeds.
Anyway fuck that, back to the Vuelta.