[dredmorbius]

As someone who's known Olympians and Olympic hopefuls (I was never quite at that level), I can appreciate the athletes. A bit.

I do feel for many of the lesser-known/followed events, and competitors from developing nations.

But the whole notion of amateur athletics was binned a long, long time ago.

I last followed the games in the late 1980s. Since then it's been a long downward spiral so far as I'm concerned.