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Yes, it's the Olympics this year, and what better way to celebrate it than with a slightly racist title?

Now, I'm not writing this post to whine about the lack of democracy in China, or the lack of free press, or even its refusal to do something about Sudan.

And nor am I ******** about those Kenyans that take up Quatar nationality to run their 10k thereby demolishing whatever was left of national pride in this silly affair.

I don't even care about the fact that this stupid ritual of over-inflated patriotic display will mark emergence of the next troublemaker superpower on the world stage.

What bothers me is the drugs. And not the good kind of drugs, not those that make you chilled out and actually allow you watch a bunch of guys in tight shorts running around a track.

No, it's the bad drugs that annoy me. Marion Jones, Justin Gatlin, Dwaine Chambers, those two Greeks twats, even going back to Ben Johnson...



So, seriously, what is the fUcking point? Why do we continue to have this spectacle, which deep down is nothing more than a game of cat and mouse between cheaters and testers?

Is there anything that can be done to prevent the Olympics from being a worldwide Tour de France?

I quite like the blade-runner guy.

If he attaches mini-springs to his blade, he'd have a decent shot at the long-jump too.

Oh, why don't you just go Ukraine yourself



Yeah. I should've phrased that "why do we continue to watch this spectacle..." but you answered that too.

We don't.

I don't watch a lot of sport, but I still watch the Olympics.

There's so many varied things going on that i always find something of interest to watch. In the Winter games the figure skating is definitely my favourite, but the Summer games just has all kinds of goodness.

It can come very unexpectedly too. Last Olympics I watched the archery for the first time ever. I was riveted. There was an Asian man I very much wanted to win, but in the end he got the silver. I was hanging on every silence as the archers in turn stood at extension, centering themselves, waiting for the wind, before they finally shot.

The last time I was really interested in the Olympics was when that crazy white trash chick had her boyfriend whack the horse-faced chick in the knee with a bat.

Seriously, about the only even I tune into is the snowboarding, and the only performance-enhancing drug they use is weed, man.

The "enhancing" bit is debatable.



The stoned triple-jump must be cool. "Ah man... one more? really?"

Also the hammerthrow on ketamine could be fun. Ping-pong on speed. Curling on... nah, that'll never be fun.

On a related note, I've heard that some athletes will not be attending or will have limited participation because of Beijings horrid air quality.

In response Beijing is supposedly moving factory's out of town, closing down gas stations, and will, reportedly, be severely limiting vehicular traffic prior to and during the games. Haha, what a pita for the Beijingians.

I would so watch those.

I'd want to hear the BBC announcers, though.

Did I mention your avatar was on the card my gf gave me for V-day? She wanted me to put it on top of our bedside table, but I figured it would be a bit awkward, since you and I don't know each other that well.

By Jove! Those dusky-hued Preuvians can hold their Cocaine, what? That's one up to Johnny Foreigner.

True dat.

Totem

Just like any other common institution... there must be a whole lot of suspension of disbelief in order to not just be overwhelmed with disgust for everything.