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Originally Posted by abailey3313
The Olympics have never done anything for me.
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Same here for the most part. Though part of the reason for me is there being too many sports in the Games relying on judging to produce a winner. This is particularly bad in the Winter Games, where it seems almost every sport requires judging.
I dislike judged events for the most part because I'd rather see the result determined objectively by the athletes directly in the competition rather than by the post-performance subjective opinion of a panel of judges. Given the brouhaha at the last Winter Games vis-a-vis the judging in figure skating events, having lots of judging-dependent sports doesn't interest me. There's just too much room for argument as to whether the judging was fair or not, whether the right critera were really being judged or not, and so forth.